High performance and long-term athlete development with Mark Elliott | EP#83
That Triathlon Show
Mikael Eriksson
4.9 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You take those three that, you know, adaptive to change fast learners and, you know, constantly wanting to push boundaries. |
| 0:06.9 | You know, I think that's what you're looking for in any athlete. |
| 0:10.8 | That Trafflot, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm your host, Michael, and on today's episode, I interview Mark |
| 0:39.0 | Elliott, Trafflin New Zealand's High Performance Director. Compared to most of these podcast |
| 0:45.4 | episodes, this one is admittedly more about the training and development overall of elite |
| 0:52.0 | athletes, but don't let us carry your way if you're just listening |
| 0:55.8 | to get tips for your own triathlon, because we do get into specific tips quite a lot, |
| 1:00.6 | actually, for age troopers as well. |
| 1:03.7 | We talk about three cornerstones or the main, main traits of elite athletes that become |
| 1:09.6 | successful, that are things that age troopers |
| 1:11.6 | can have just as much as the elites. So listen in for those. This episode is sponsored by |
| 1:19.1 | precision hydration. You can take their free online sweat test on precision hydration.com to get |
| 1:26.5 | your personalized hydration strategy because everybody |
| 1:30.1 | loses a different amount of sodium in their sweat and the sweat different amounts. |
| 1:34.7 | So the electrolytes needs in long events especially, but even in shorter events and the climate |
| 1:41.0 | obviously plays a role here. |
| 1:43.0 | Varys a lot from person to person. |
| 1:45.1 | You can't just go for the generic sports drink if you want to make sure that you get your electrolytes |
| 1:50.8 | needs met. |
| 1:53.5 | So go to precisionidation.com, take that free online sweat test. |
| 1:57.4 | It's linked to down below in the show notes and use the discount code that triathlon |
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