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Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Daryl Hurrie: Canada’s Mad Sports Scientist who creates Olympians - Triathlon Taren Podcast

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7843 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Darryl Hurrie is often referred to as the Mad Sports Scientist.  He has trained athletes to the Olympics and been the Director of Sports Science for Canadian Sports Centres.  Darryl is a young guy and an athlete himself, so he's able to take his huge breadth of knowledge in sports science and translate it easily to age group athletes looking for the edge on their competition. Daryl Hurrie is currently completing his PhD in Exercise in Extreme Environments at the University of Manitoba. He is a Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology – Certified Exercise Physiologist and a Certified Personal Trainer Course Facilitator.  He is on the advisory board of the National Strength and Conditioning Associating – Manitoba Region and has served on the National Sport Science and Sport Medicine Advisory Council. Topics discussed in the interview: Sculpt Lifestyle website

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0:00.0

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0:49.1

Today's episode of the podcast features Daryl hurry.

0:52.1

Daryl is a local sports scientist who has worked with Olympians

0:57.3

at triathlon and other sports working with our Canadian development program. He's currently

1:03.7

going for his PhD. And if you follow the vlogs on my Triathlon Taryn YouTube channel at all,

1:11.0

any of those days that you saw me cycling underwater on a stationary bike in hot,

1:17.5

cold, or body temperature water, that was Daryl that was putting me through those paces and

1:22.8

the wind gates.

1:24.3

So Daryl is actually kind of like a mad scientist of sport. So he came on to talk about

1:31.1

a lot of the nitty gritty training data metrics. Basically, what is the first training metric

1:37.2

that triathletes should be thinking about? What's the next and the most important one that

1:41.5

they should be thinking about when it comes to the bike? What are the training metrics that they should be using if they're looking for the absolute

1:49.0

tippy top of performance?

1:51.6

How do they relate V-O-2 max to lactic threshold and what the most overrated training metric is?

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