The Pain Cave is a special place that often athletes have to go to have a good performance. It’s a place that one has to have the physical capacity and mental toughness to endure.
In this call, Ben & Kerry will teach you how you can go to the pain cave and create your best performances.
To listen now, keep reading…
Running drills are a great way to build speed, efficiency, flexibility and technique. You can do these drills before every run.
Do these drills that Kerry Sullivan does in this video and you will notice an improvement in your running. Keep reading to access the video.
This time of year is all about change.
Summer is well and truly behind us and we are now deep into autumn with winter on the horizon. The racing season is pretty much done with the last one or two big races about to take place. I love this time of year as it signals a break from the demands of training and racing along with the excitement and planning for next year.
In this video Kerry Sullivan talks about the basics of running technique. Often, running technique is overlooked but it is great way to gain speed with you building more fitness. Keep reading to access the video…
Unfortunately Justin was unable to make the Q&A session. It will be rescheduled for another time in the near future.
Justin Trollé is a Level III USAT Coach and over the past 10 years he has coached International elite athletes in New Zealand as well as elite athletes here in the USA including Mark Fretta, Greg Billington, Lauren Goldstein-Kral and Sarah Groff.
A graduate from the University of Otago in NZ in both Exercise Sports Science as well as Marketing, Justin is also qualified coach in Swimming, Cycling and Running as individual disciplines.
Justin currently heads the USAT coach mentoring programs at the US Olympic Training Centre in Colorado Springs which includes both the 3 day program as well as the year long mentoring program designed for level 2 and 3 coaching.
In addition to his personal coaching programs Justin was the recipient of a 2005 prime ministers scholarship to studying coaching education and systems throughout the world and currently designs and delivers the USAT Elite Coach Mentorship program and the US Olympic Training Centre in Colorado Springs.
When racing to finish as high as you can in a triathlon, the dynamics and tactics of racing change. Often there comes a time in every race where you need to decide if you are going to respond to someone or a group of people speeding up.
Conversely, there can also be times when people around you may be fading off and you need to decide whether to stay with them or go.
Ben & Kerry will be discussing all the race tactics you need to know when dealing with changes in pace so come race day you can finish as high as possible.
Listen now or download for later below!
Duane Dobko has 17 years of competitive swimming experience and 7 years of triathlon experience. He was a former school record holder for the University of Minnesota in the 100 yard backstroke and was a Canadian National champion in the 50 meter backstroke in 1994.
Duane was a 2003 Hawaii Ironman qualifier, finishing 26th in 2002 at Ironman Wisconsin, with the 3rd fastest overall swim split (49:03). Duane is currently swim coaching professional triathlete David Thompson, and competes for the Gear West Elite team out of Minnesota.
In this video Kerry Sullivan shows and dynamic stretching exercises that you can do.
Dynamic stretching is a way to stretch your muscles by using movement. This is a more effective way for athletes to build flexibility as it teaches the body how to become flexible through a full range of motion and thus you are able to notice the difference more when swimming, cycling and running.
Blake Becker is a 30 year old endurance sports coach and Professional Triathlete.
As an athlete, Blake has over a decade of racing experience across all distances from sprint distance to Ironman. Blake has completed 25+ Ironman races and has gone from an athlete with no racing experience or background, to an 8 hour/top 5 Ironman finisher.
As an endurance coach, Blake has been working with athletes for 10 years. He combines a Bachelors Degree in Education, with a USA Triathlon certification and nearly a decade of experience.
Over the last 10 years, Blake has worked with over 200 athletes of all ability levels; this includes athletes who set out to complete their first sprint triathlon, as well as athletes who race as elites and have raced at the World Championships. No matter what your goals are for the year, talk to Blake, the chances are good that he can help you get where you want to be!
Check out the site and contact Blake if you are interested in coaching, sponsorship, or attending a BBMC camp.
Remember when your parents gave you chores & you totally slacked off on the quality you put forth on that chore, and then your parents made you do the chore again & again (& again for the tough-learners) until you did it with superior quality and at a level that they were satisfied with? Yeah, that’s not how your body works. There is a finite amount of quality movement before the movement pattern breaks down, eventually degrading enough that your body is at risk for a variety of issues, including injury, if it continues.
First, what is a movement pattern? It’s a classification of various movements that all humans should be able to do at any age regardless of size/gender, i.e. “push”, “pull”, “squat”, “carry”, etc. When I first meet a new potential client, I evaluate their movement patterns to determine what joints are moving well, which ones are not, and based on that, I know which muscles are either too short & tight or too long & weak – both of which need to be corrected in order for them to move optimally (example: you have bad posture at your desk job?…lots of pushups in your workout does not help you until you fix the icky-desk-posture; AND the pushups can, in fact, hurt you by further increasing the imbalance of the muscles attached to your shoulder, thereby angering everybody inside your shoulder joint). Continue reading