"Be comfortable being uncomfortable" with Danielle Stefano | EP#55

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Danielle Stefano has been working in high performance sport since 2003, including going to the London Olympics in 2012 as a coach for Australia's triathletes. She first began her career as a Sport Scientist working not only with Triathlon, but also with Swimming, Track & Field, Cycling, Hockey and Soccer. Today she runs the professional triathlon squad Elotik Pro Triathlon. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -What Danielle considers cornerstones of successful triathlon training -What she has learnt from working in other sports that she applies in her triathlon coaching today -The coach-athlete relationship and communication LISTENER QUESTIONS: If you have questions that you want me to answer on the show or off the show (in an email), send me your question via email or Twitter (contact information below). NOTES: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ SHOWNOTES: www.thattriathlonshow.com Send feedback, questions or just wanna chat? CONTACT me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0	And if you're putting yourself in an uncomfortable position in training, then that's going to become natural in competition.
0:08.5	The Triathlon Show, episode 55. Hey, what's up everybody?
0:26.3	Welcome back to another episode of That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by
0:31.4	Scientific Triathlon.com.
0:33.9	As always, I'm your host, Michael, and my guest on today's interview is Danielle Stefano,
0:40.0	an Australian triathlon coach, and she is the owner of Ellotic Pro Traathlon, which is her own squad,
0:46.5	which she has recently founded after working for several years at a federation and institutional level
0:53.7	within Australian triathlon and among other
0:57.3	things and accomplishments going to the London Olympics in 2012 at I believe 28 years old.
1:03.6	So that is a pretty stellar achievement.
1:06.0	We'll talk a bit more about that in the interview.
1:08.6	We talk about a lot of different things in the interview that
1:11.4	all of you will definitely find very, very interesting because Danielle has a kind of an unorthodox
1:17.8	background in coaching, not actually being a triathlet herself. And she has seen many different sports
1:25.3	from both coaching and sports scientist perspective,
1:28.2	including rowing, cycling, swimming, basketball, you name it really.
1:33.0	And that is one of the main things that I want to bring out with this interview,
1:36.8	how much you can really learn from different sports and being a coach and being involved
1:41.8	as a sport scientist or whatever role you have in other
1:45.8	sports than triathlon and use that within triathlon and that it's important to bring an outside
1:50.9	perspective to triathlon and keep a wide lens and Danielle is a perfect example of that with all
1:56.6	that she has achieved she is a coach at the very highest level. So I'm very happy to bring you
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