Dan Atkins - Head Coach of Triathlon Australia Performance Centre Gold Coast | EP#217

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Dan Atkins is the Head Coach of the Triathlon Australia Performance Centre on the Gold Coast. He discusses the demands of elite draft-legal triathlon in 2020 and how to prepare for these demands. All along, he shares training advice highly applicable to any endurance athlete, elite or amateur, triathlete or single-sport. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -The demands of elite draft-legal triathlon in 2020. -Training elite and developmental athletes for world class draft-legal performances -A typical training week of the squad of elite athletes at the Gold Coast performance center -How the training develops over the course of a season -The importance and challenges of a daily training environment with group training -Coaching and training lessons learnt from integrating para-triathletes with able-bodied athletes -Dan's number one piece of advice for any endurance athlete SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts217/ 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 THATTRIATHLONSHOW15 to get 15% off your order OR use the code THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free. ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Get 20% off your entire order with the discount code TTS20. LINKS AND RESOURCES: How Norway became a triathlon powerhouse with head coach Arild Tveiten | EP#154 World Champions keep things simple: training masterclass with Joel Filliol | EP#172 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 Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

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0:00.0	consistency in the time you have available.
0:03.2	So if you have 10 hours a week, make it the best 10 hours a week you can possibly have with your sport.
0:11.9	Make sure that it is achievable week in, week out.
0:15.9	The frequency in which you do that training in that 10 hours needs to be week in, week out.
0:23.4	It can't go from 8 hours to 12 hours to 4 hours to 2 hours.
0:28.2	If you commit to it, the best athletes I've had have always had consistency in the hours
0:33.7	they've had to be able to achieve their training.
0:38.3	That Fairfant-Soe, 270. hours they've had to be able to achieve their training. The Catalan show, 217.
1:00.7	Hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com. I'm our host Michael, and on today's episode, I interview
1:07.2	coach Dan Atkins, who is the head coach at the Gold Coast Traflin Australia Performance
1:13.3	Centre.
1:14.5	We had a really, really great chat on all things training that do not apply just to the elite
1:21.2	athletes that Dan coaches, but really to any endurance athlete.
1:26.1	And I think that any of you will find this discussion extremely useful and valuable.
1:31.4	I certainly did and really enjoyed the chat I had with Dan.
1:36.6	We'll get right to it after thanking our sponsors, Precisionhydration, that you can find on precision hydration.
1:44.2	In a blog post, Precision hydration has that I'll link to in the show notes, they reference
1:49.9	a 2017 review paper where the sweat rates of a total of 500 athletes was investigated.
1:58.1	And this review paper found that one to one and a half liters per hour is a pretty
2:03.8	normal or moderate sweat rate, but the ranges of sweat rates range from 0.5 liters per hour
2:11.9	to just over 2.5 liters per hour with a few outliers at above 4 liters per hour as well.
2:19.5	So you can see that there's a big inter-individual difference here.
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