Performance Process: Coaching in the World Tour with Jacob Tipper
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🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Performance Process returns for 2024 with the latest in our series delving into how and why World Tour racing is getting so much faster. Coach Jacob Tipper is our guest discussing various aspects of the training that goes into modern performances.
Covering everything from the importance of fatigue resistance to off season binges, Tipper talks from his vast experience as a rider and coach to many. Tipper has coached EF's Ben Healy since the under 16 categories and talks us through some of the steps and plans that Healy has implemented in becoming one of the hottest prospects in the World Tour and why other aspiring athletes shouldn't throw the towel in when they see young mega-stars siging pro and winning big right out of the junior categories.
Time stamps for the episode:
04:06 – UCI lever angle rules
09:24 – Is World Tour Racing getting faster?
14:59 - Is it just speed increasing, or is power increasing also?
16:51 – Modern training and increased professionalism
28:00 – Power training and its usefulness.
34:29 – The difference between pros and U23 riders and the key performance metric we should be talking about
41:11 - On recovery
44:38 – Altitude training
49:14 – Heat training
56:32 – A theory on how better fuelling may be heloping younger riders break through
1:04:04 - How it's now the young riders leading by example
1:06:53 - On how slower burner riders shouldn't look to emulate the teenage pros
1:12:03 - Athlete development
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to performance process everybody. |
| 0:09.0 | Kalei Frets joined as always. |
| 0:13.2 | Actually I shouldn't say joined. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm joining Ronan McLaughlin. |
| 0:16.0 | Ronan, what? |
| 0:18.6 | What are we learning about today and who are we talking to? |
| 0:21.3 | We're learning about a, well a heck of a lot about how the pros train these days because we're talking to |
| 0:27.5 | Jacob Tipper who is Ben Healy's coach Ben Healy being the sort of breakthrough success of the 20-23 season. |
| 0:35.0 | Jacob has coached him since he was under 16, I think, right the way through to World Tour. |
| 0:41.0 | He has also coached a heck of a lot of other athletes including the writer we seem to talk about most on this show, Dan Biggum, and he's also worked with Richard Bussell, who's in all already we've mentioned previously, |
| 0:56.5 | he's National Time Out Time Trial Champion of UK. He's worked with Ali Bridgwood over at G.C.N. |
| 1:04.0 | And he is currently working with, of course, Benny, |
| 1:07.0 | we've already mentioned, but also Johnny Brownlee, |
| 1:10.0 | sort of preparing for Paris 2024, which is this year now. And also he has worked previously on that |
| 1:17.1 | sub seven swim by ground triathlon under seven hour project that happened a couple of years ago. |
| 1:24.3 | He also wrote the Ross this year which is probably the most important thing. |
| 1:29.6 | That's definitely the most important thing, 100% most important thing. |
| 1:32.8 | High performance coach and a high performance athlete. |
| 1:35.3 | He's won stages of 2.8 C, UCI races like Turra King High Lake and |
| 1:41.2 | and that as Rydner Ross, Ross as I mentioned national team pursuit champion |
| 1:45.7 | road in the team pursuit World Cup squads the hoop bike team with Dan Bigham and Johnny |
| 1:51.5 | well. Johnny obviously being the first guest of the show. |
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