Training talk: splicing workouts, cognitive load, and more with David Tilbury-Davis | EP#53

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

David Tilbury-Davis, coach of among others Cody Beals and Lionel Sanders, shares fascinating insights about training, including the cognitive load of triathlon, splicing workouts (based on the WHY of your workout), and action steps for how self-coached athletes can get started coaching themselves more effectively. We also dive a bit deeper into bike training specifically. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -How to become a more effective self-coached triathlete -Splicing workouts to achieve a desired adaptation -The cognitive load of triathlon and how it impacts planning your training -The 20-minute rule -Technique-under-load in swimming -How a weekend warrior's and Lionel Sander's bike training in principle is not too dissimilar... COACHING: I am currently (August 2017) taking on new athletes as I transition from my engineering job to working full time on Scientific Triathlon. If you want to learn more (or already know that you want me to coach you), email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com. 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	That Traathlon Show, episode 53.
0:18.9	Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome back to That Triathlon show, the podcast presented by
0:25.5	Scientific Triathlon.com. As always, I'm your host, Michael, and once again, I've let an interview
0:34.1	run along, so we're going to go right to the meat and potatoes of today's
0:39.3	episode, my interview with David Tilbury Davis, who is the coach of among others, professional
0:45.4	three athletes, Cody Beals and Lionel Sanders. We had a great, great discussion. I had so many
0:52.4	takeaways from this and so many interesting things
0:55.0	that I started thinking about after talking to David, including, for example, the thing that
1:00.3	David mentions about how using paddles in swimming is not necessarily a good thing for triathletes,
1:07.0	and the cognitive load and how that needs to be taken into account when training for three different sports.
1:14.0	So those are just some of my nuggets, but you will have yours, and we talk about both things applicable for beginners as well as very advanced triathletes.
1:26.2	So there's something for everybody here, and with a particular view to self-coaching as well as very advanced triathletes. So there's something for everybody here,
1:28.2	and with a particular view to self-coaching as well.
1:32.5	I'll be right back after the interview to talk a little bit about a new paper by Stephen
1:37.9	Seiler that me and David discussed briefly in the interview.
1:42.0	But that's after hearing from David Tilbury Davis.
1:50.5	All right, on today's interview on that triathlon show, I am with David Tilbury Davis. David,
1:57.4	welcome to the show. Good morning. Good morning for you and good evening for me.
2:03.3	I'm in Finland and you are way beyond the Atlantic in Seattle.
2:08.4	Is that correct?
2:09.3	Yes, currently in Seattle.
2:12.2	Yeah, okay.
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