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That Triathlon Show

Peak Performance - The Science of Success with Brad Stulberg | EP#28

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A few common principles drive performance, regardless of the field or the task at hand. Whether someone is trying to qualify for the Olympics, set a new personal best or win their age group, or break ground in mathematical theory, many of the practices that lead to great success are the same. In Peak Performance, Brad Stulberg, a former McKinsey and Company consultant and writer who covers health and the science of human performance, and Steve Magness, a performance scientist and coach of Olympic athletes, team up to demystify these practices and make them accessible to everyone. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN: -The science of success and peak performance, whatever success means to you -Rest and stress and its role in performance -The importance of developing a purpose -Routines and their role in priming the body and mind for performance and productivity -Action steps you can start taking today to work towards peak performance in triathlon and in life 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

In the book, we coined it the growth equation, and the growth equation is stress plus rest equals growth.

0:09.0

That Trafflons Show, episode 28.

0:29.0

Hello, everybody, and welcome back to that triathlon show, the podcast presented by ScientificTraflon.com.

0:31.8

As always, I'm your host, Michael, and as I was telling you about on the last episode I'm super excited about today's

0:40.3

interview I could have talked to my interviewee for today's show for hours on end

0:45.9

Brad Stalberg who is said the co-offer together with Steve Magnus of the upcoming book peak

0:53.9

performance which talks about performance

0:57.0

in both sports and athletics, but also life in general, or maybe more so, or equally.

1:03.9

I guess the main point I should say is that how the things that make peak performers

1:09.8

in both sports and in business and in art and in all sorts,

1:15.8

in science, in all sorts of fields, how they have some certain attributes or certain things that

1:22.2

they do in common.

1:24.0

And those are the things that we're going to talk about in today's show.

1:27.2

So you will find this super useful for your triathlon, but also for your life in general.

1:33.8

And I'm now recording this intro and we'll be recording the outro just a day after interviewing Brad

1:40.5

and I'm still fired up about the talk and I'm already thinking about how I can implement

1:46.5

this and I'm just climbing on the walls to, you know, waiting for to getting my hands on

1:52.7

the book and be able to dig into it and read it. It's absolutely going to be super exciting.

1:59.9

I have no doubt that it's going to be my favorite book of the year.

2:03.1

But just before we dive into the interview,

2:06.2

so that you don't tune out and think that this is going to be a whole lot of voodoo fluff

2:13.6

or something like that or weird things.

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