Hamburg is the biggest and best Classic race of ITU Triathlon - it’s a good place to have a good day 🥇🥇🥈🥉 With our 9th and 10th WTS win of the season, spread across 6 athletes - really happy to see all take the opportunity to stand on the top step.
Wishing fast healing for all those involved in the big crash in the men’s race. 📸 @bensnapsstuff@tzaferes@worldtriathlon
#jftcrew
“Success is not owned, it is rented - and that rent is due everyday.” . “There is no feeling like lining up knowing it’s all on the line, with the narrowest margins for success, and finding a way to make it happen yet again.” .
My third time in Lausanne - first in 1998 as a 20 y/o in awe of the level of the senior athletes, and then again in 2006 as head coach of the Canadian team and supporting my first world champion (junior). I could never have imagined being back here in 2019 fortunate enough to support both the men’s and women’s World Champions. 🌈🌈 .
This whole year our #jftcrew athletes and staff have worked together to get better every day, sharing our process across weeks and months of total commitment to achieving our best potential. Each has contributed to making our environment able to support these levels of performance, and all share in these collective achievements: .
19 x WTS podiums, 12x WTS wins with 7 different athletes, 3x WTS overall podiums, and culminating with our 2x World Champions.
It never ever gets easier, and I’m motivated more than ever to keep getting better and grateful to share this path with likeminded people who dedicate themselves to being the best in the world.
Thanks so much to #Pepe for an extraordinary partnership that has underpinned all our successes and @drew.box who has made such a big contribution to all the athletes and making our environment better. 📸 @wags.photo@tzaferes@worldtriathlon
Reflecting on what went into Vasco Vilaça's first WTCS win in Samarkand:
The background, principles and what the training differences were coming out of the off season.
Substack article link in Bio
Credit Ria Novosti / World Triathlon
🚨 New Podcast Drop
Thanks to Alan and Iñaki for this discussion - some of my favourite topics we covered on the MAD Science Meets Real Life podcast:
-The intensity mistake
-Time Is a Flat Circle concept
-Coaches can see, athletes can feel
-What Actually Makes Champions Different / Ego control
-Zone 1 Is Not Zone 2 — The Easy Training Problem
-Don't Rush Young Athletes — The Long Development Problem
-The Institutional Knowledge Problem in Coaching
Watch on substack, Youtube, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts
The Bullshit Asymmetry Problem
Often you're buying into the perception of precision, where devices confidently display numbers that are, at best, educated estimates - and where the marketing effort to sell these numbers dwarfs the effort required to scrutinise them.
Read more on substack
What I learned from Simon Whitfield - one of triathlon’s greats:
-His unique psychology: Who he was as an athlete, and the traits that made him capable of this kind of career.
-His environment: The climate he created around himself, and how he managed it.
-His preparation: The approach to training that kept him fresh and available across more than a decade.
Read the substack for more
Photo: Delly Carr/Triathlon.org
New Real Coaching Podcast drop: The Top 20 Rules for Faster Triathlon Swimming
📍Rule number one: conditioning trump's drills. Technique matters, but the way that most athletes try to improve technique doesn't work.
📍Get fitter and your ability to hold good technique improves.
📍Frequency is the best way to improve your swimming.
📍You can't expect to swim fast and be fresh on the bike if you rarely do main sets with the same or higher volume and pace than you expect in the race.
Support the Real Coaching Podcast:
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Spotify: /show/3dpGop1CyvrgMpowOUc1Ll
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Such an honor and privilege to have @joelfilliol on the latest #TrainingBabble podcast 🎙️So refreshing to hear that the fundamentals remain the same, even at the highest levels. #linkinbio #ConsistencyIsEverything #PatienceIsAVirtue #DoTheDamnWork
Does "The Top 20 Rules for Faster Triathlon Swimming" still hold up 14 years after it was first written?
Some of my favourites:
1. Conditioning trumps drills.
2. Traditional drills don't work.
#21 Repetition is your friend. Variety is for the weak minded, and interferes with the learning process. Repetition, Repetition, Repetition.
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New podcast drop: Risk and Reward
"The Mental Edge in Triathlon: Risk, Confidence, and Leaving One Rep in the Bank"
Support the Real Coaching Podcast:
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Spotify: /show/3dpGop1CyvrgMpowOUc1Ll
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New substack article dropped:
-Learning from experience is hard, many athletes repeat the same mistakes over and over.
-Risk taking in competition is a different calculation to risk taking in training.
-Chasing the 99.9% is a high risk approach that is likely to result in catastrophic problems.
-Getting to the start line healthy and ready to compete is the critical part of effective preparation.
-You can’t win if you can’t start the race!
-Focusing on getting the basics right: the 95% is what drives even the top performers to consistently deliver to their potential.
