Balancing the art and the science of endurance training with Susan Sotir, PhD | EP#167

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Susan Sotir coaches with Breakthrough Performance Coaching, has a PhD in Sport and Exercise Psychology and is an assistant professor at Springfield College. We discuss the importance of balancing the art and science of coaching to develop better athletes, and how leaning to heavily on one side can be costly if you're after improved performance. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -Why and how to balance the art and science of coaching or triathlon training for the self-coached athlete -Individuality, and why research findings should never be generalised directly to the individual athlete without a good knowledge of the context of this particular athlete -How lab testing can massively beneficial in optimising and individualising an athlete's training, when we apply both the art and science of coaching to their training -How to read research papers the right way, and conduct a critical analysis of the findings within SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts167/ THAT TRIATHLON SHOW HOMEPAGE: www.thattriathlonshow.com SPONSORS: Precision Hydration - One-size doesn't fit all when it comes to hydration. Take Precision Hydration's FREE sweat test and learn how you should hydrate. Use the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free! LINKS AND RESOURCES: Susan's bio on Breakthrough Performance Coaching Science to Practice | EP#109 Intermediate Ironman 20-week Training Plan: Running pace, bike power version Running pace, bike heart rate version Running power and bike power version RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0	Self-coach athletes, in my experience, typically, it looks like a lacktaker.
0:05.4	They either pull far right or far left.
0:07.5	They either pull very far to that science side in order to have this certainty and this confidence
0:13.0	that what they're doing is systematic and measured, or they go too far to the other side,
0:18.4	which is it feels bad today, so I'm not going to do it, or it feels
0:21.7	this, or it feels that, and only go by feel.
0:26.8	The Freepleon So, 1067.
0:29.6	1067. Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of That Traathlon show, the podcast
0:49.0	presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.
0:52.4	I'm your host Michael, and on today's's episode I'm joined by Susan Sotier,
0:57.4	who coaches with Breakthrough Performance Coaching, has a PhD in sports and exercise psychology and is
1:03.9	an assistant professor at Springfield College. We discussed the importance of balancing the art
1:10.0	and science of coaching or endurance training in general if you're a self-coach athlete,
1:15.8	and how leaning too heavily on one side of the art and science equation can be costly if you're after improved performance.
1:24.5	A couple of examples of things will go into include how important individuality is
1:29.3	and why research findings should never be generalized directly to the individual athlete
1:34.7	without a good knowledge of the context of this particular athlete and why this is the reason
1:41.1	that lab testing can be so beneficial in optimizing and individualizing
1:44.8	an athlete's training when we apply both the art and the science of coaching to their training.
1:51.0	And we also discuss how to read research papers the right way and conduct a critical analysis
1:56.0	of findings within.
1:58.5	Before we get into the interview, big thanks to precision hydration for sponsoring this
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