When I went back through 10 years of data and looked at what Stephen Seiler is seen in some of the cross-country skiing

and what I've done with some of the people that actually have the medals in the Olympics that I've worked with for 10 years or more,

I didn't see any of the polarized training that he actually saw on the cross-country skiing side of things.

The Trafflon Show, episode 104.

Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to another episode of That Triathlon show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

I'm your host, Michael, and on today's episode, I interview Dean Ghalish.

We talk about how you can become a more effective self-coach

by having a good process for your self-coaching, by having the right knowledge and how to get

that knowledge, and by minimizing bias in your coaching or self-coaching, I should say, plus

many other aspects. We also get into some maybe perhaps controversial thoughts on

periodization or on maybe even how you potentially shouldn't use periodization at all. So that's very

interesting. Dean, a few words about him first. He's a coach and head performance physiologist

at Carmichael training Systems, or CTS.

And over the past 20 years that he's been in this field, he has worked as the coach to more than 70 national champions and more than a dozen Olympic and World Championship medalists.

And his expertise is he started out in cycling mostly, so

like mountain biking, road and track cycling, BMX even, but he has also worked with triathletes,

many triathletes, but also skiing and more recently motorsports and even the military. So he

definitely has a wide range of knowledge and it's that coaching process

that I think allows him to coach athletes in so many different and varied fields.

A very credible or solid merit that he has is serving as a physiologist for USA cycling from

1994 to 96, where he introduced

power meters with the national team and established training protocols for using them for the 96

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