Episode 205: Dr. Dan Plews
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with hosts Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter. For this episode, Dr. Dan Plews joined the show. Dan is an Applied Sports Scientist (PhD Exercise Physiology), researcher, and endurance coach. He has worked with numerous world and Olympic class athletes in the sports of rowing, kayak, and triathlon.
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| 0:46.4 | So Dr. Pluse, can you just, I was reading a little about your bio, and I got excited, man, |
| 0:52.2 | because I used to live in New Zealand. |
| 0:53.6 | I lived in the Wicado. |
| 0:56.4 | Oh, nice. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, I used to play rugby in Houtapun, which is, you know, as you know, I don't know where you're at in New Zealand, but that's, you know, in Cambridge, which is, you know, kind of right in that rowing territory. I think Lake Carapiro is not far from there. |
| 0:52.4 | So I'm familiar with at least some aspect of that stuff. |
| 0:55.6 | And then I've been rowing as. I think Lake Carapiro is not far from there. So I'm familiar with at least some |
| 1:11.8 | aspect of that stuff. And then I've been rowing as an indoor guy for a couple years now. Right. Yeah. So you obviously know that I worked for the New Zealand rowing team. Yeah, I saw that. I thought that's cool with you know with did you, I know there's a guy named Rob Waddell who might have been before your time, but I know he was, you know, the concept two world record and gold medal. |
| 1:10.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.2 | So my time was um so my time there was more |
| 1:33.4 | mahre dry style yeah yeah um so he's double olympic gold medalist in the single schools and the |
| 1:38.8 | and the um and the men's pair um eric and hamish bond yeah those guys are just setting the world on fire. I think Hamish is still crushing some concert two records. I think I signed to set up. Yeah. So, yeah, interesting story with Hamish. So he actually made the transfer to time trialing, cycling as well. So when he did that, I actually coached him to that transition. So we kind of |
| 2:02.3 | he left rowing and he went to do cycling and he went to the Commonwealth Games, got bronze |
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