High-performance coaching with elite coach Paulo Sousa | EP#26

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Paulo Sousa, PhD, is an elite triathlon coach from Portugal now residing in California and operating The Triathlon Squad, a high-performance environment for elite triathletes. Among other accomplishments, he coached two of the three male athletes in the Rio Olympics 2016, and was given the USAT Coach of the Year award for 2016. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -The origin story of The Triathlon Squad and why it came to be -How Paulo and his athletes in the squad operate on a day-to-day basis -Balancing athletes' individual training with benefiting from the group environment -What it takes to be a professional triathlete - physically and mentally 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	a lot of times is just making changes on the fly, little adjustments, things that might make a difference further down the line.
0:09.1	That Traathlon Show, episode 26.
0:31.2	Welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traflon.com. I'm your host Michael, and on today's episode, I bring you an interview with one of the very top elite coaches in triathlon
0:39.5	today.
0:40.5	Paolo Sousa.
0:41.9	Paolo is originally from Lisbon, Portugal, but he resides in Poway, California, and has been
0:49.6	living in the US for quite a few years already.
0:52.1	In California, in Poway, he has the triathlon squad, which is a high performance coaching
0:59.1	environment for elite triathletes that he founded a few years ago.
1:05.1	And it's become very successful.
1:07.2	And he has, among other athletes in that environment he has two of three
1:12.4	US male Olympians from the Rio 2016 triathlon team so we'll get into the
1:19.7	interview right away keep the intro shortened sweet just one more thing to
1:25.2	luring Apollo was the USAT coach of the year, 2016.
1:30.3	So if there's anybody you can learn something from, it's definitely from him.
1:34.5	So all right, enjoy this interview with Paulo Sousa.
1:40.2	All right.
1:41.2	So we've got Paolo Sousa on that Trafflon show today. Welcome to the show, Paolo.
1:46.6	Thank you. Are you back from Yokohama yet or are you still on the roads? Because you've been there for the WTS,
1:53.4	a world triathlon series race this past weekend by the time that we record this into you.
1:58.5	Yeah, I was in Yokohama for the WTS.
2:02.3	I had some athletes racing there, and now I'm back in the US.
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