That Traathlon Show

Episode 15

Hello, hello, hello, welcome back to that triathlon show.

Today we talk about an extremely important topic for triathletes, strength and conditioning.

Are you doing S&C, as we call it at the moment, or have you been during the off-season?

For many, it's something that they know that they should do, but they just don't get around doing it, and the reason may be that they don't really know exactly how, when, or what to do it.

For some, it might just be that they don't know why they should do it but but i think that many

triathletes these days these days know that they should be doing strength and conditioning is just

the actual execution and and getting it done that's that's the big problem and that's what we'll

cover here in this episode today the why the how the one and the what of strength

and conditioning and for that i have a special guest his name is frank velasquez junior and he's a

certified athletic trainer and strength and conditioning specialist make sure to stick around

until after the interview because that's when i'll share what I've been doing personally when it comes to SMC these last couple of years.

And I'll tell you how that has worked for me.

So that might be something that you can apply as well and find useful and get some ideas and inspiration for what you can do in your own strength and conditioning.

But getting back on topic and to the interview, it was actually Kim Schrohambauer,

my guest back from episode 8 on nutrition for triathletes that recommended me that I go talk to

Frank and have a chat with him on the podcast because she

works with Frank and she sends all of her athletes to him for strength and conditioning assessments

so he definitely comes with glowing recommendations to say the least and as a quick intro will

go a bit more into Frank's background in the interview,

but he's the director of sports performance at Allegheny Health Network,

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