The Endurance Specific Podcast

Today is all about value. The value you place in not only your goals and ambitions, but the value place in the process to get there. We live in the era of “now” - everyone wants something now(!) and most of the time they want to do it for “free” - not always in the monetary sense, but in the form of minimal commitment.

This is a demanding and sport and you have to be prepared to commit.

We also spend time breaking down the components of Todd Herman’s episode from last week - so go back and listen to that first if you haven’t already.

• Why investing in your performance is important
• Learning to invest in yourself, the right way
• Why free = zero value to you
• What free is going to cost you in the long run
• The dangers of an exit strategy
• The truth
• Making the right decisions
• Amateurs thinking like professionals
• Asking yourself the right questions
• Using mindset to shape your lens
• Creating your alter ego in detail

Not the free line but a great strategy

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Today we have Todd Herman on the show. Todd is exceptionally good at high performance coaching/advisory, has worked with Pro/Olympic athletes all over the world on the Mental Game. He also advises C-Level execs on building high-performing teams (mainly tech and hedge funds) & business owners on deleting, subtracting and removing activities they shouldn't be doing and recently started a VC company.

Todd has coached thousands upon thousands of athletes on developing their mental game while helping them craft their alter egos that allow them to level up big time.

Make sure you are present for this podcast with pen and paper to take notes. Todd gives us some work to do, but if you do the work you'll get the rewards.

• Not using practice time/training correctly and missing out on stacking
• Why you need to create time and space
• Understanding your sport and what it is about is key to high performance
• Using the Pareto principle to best effect
• 90 days
• How to break a paradigm
• The why and how to build your alter egos
• The Personal Limiter Analysis
• The Talent Magnifier
• The Origin Profile
• The Artifact Enhancer
• The Immersion Experience
• Using the 6 senses and which is the most untapped
• A different take on visualisation how to
• The imposter syndrome
• The power of writing it down

Today Pete and talk all about the daily discipline, the art of 'throwing' those consistent jabs that will help take your performances - next level.

• An awesome blog post from 2014
• Why a boxing analogy just makes sense for endurance sport
• Why do athletes always look for the big Right Hook?
• Learning to throw jabs
• Training like a champ, racing like a chump
• Building confidence with repeated jabs
• Throwing jabs in training
• When to throw Right Hooks in a race
• The art of setting up the big Right
• Jabs and your mental game

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Welcome to 2016! This is going to be an amazing year! And we start it off with a bang today!

Today we speak with Bob Murray from Flex Pharma on an extremely important issue: Cramping. Everyone knows that cramping sucks. We get them racing , we get them training, we get them lying in bed at night. And until now, there have only been anecdotal solutions to manage your cramping. Both of us have had success with magnesium, to an extent, but we couldn't find an answer as to why.... Bob is here to tell us about a new sports drink that is going to change how we deal with cramps - forever. This isn't a marketing pitch - this is getting into the science of cramping and helping you understand and manage your cramps.

In today's episode we discuss:

• A story of two sea-kayaking neuroscientists and how they cracked the code
• Why we cramp
• Different types of cramps
• What we know and don't know about cramping
• Cramp triggers
• How "It's the Nerve" works
• Getting spicy
• Mouth --> Brain --> Muscle
• Mouth rinsing
• Making your neuromuscular system more awesome
• It's the Nerve and performance
• When you can get your dirty little hands on the drink

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What a year of The Fat Black Podcasts. So many epic guest interviews, so many knowledge bombs and a lot of pushing performance and health forward. Pete and I have had a lot of fun bringing you these episodes in 2015 … Can’t believe it’s be 2.5 years since I started podcasting and 2 years of TFB. Bloody good times.

In this last episode of 2015 Pete and I discuss how you can set yourself up well for 2016 and some of our favourite things of 2015.

Enjoy and Thank You for being part of the TFB.

• Why 2015 has been a great year
• Our favourite Episodes from 2015
• Why people mess up their Goal Setting
• Gaols are only for 90 days
• Biting off more than you can chew

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Today Pete and I get to talk with Karlyn Pipes whom is a Professional Athlete, Swim Clinician and Speaker and owner of Aquatic Edge in Kona. Karlyn has set over 219 FINA Masters World Records and currently holds 43 FINA Masters World and 87 United States Masters National records. On top of that Karlyn has numerous open water titles and records to her name among a plethora of other titles to her name and in June this year was inducted into the swimming international hall of fame.

Karlyn has also just released her book the Do-Over which we go into in this podcast. Enjoy as there is a lot of take homes not only to become a better swimmer but also to inspire and help us through our own demons.

• The Do-Over
• Dealing with and overcoming addiction
• When NOT believing becomes easy
• “Stinking Thinking”
• Triathlon and addiction
• Judging yourself
• One word to change your mindset
• “Know”
• How to become a faster swimmer
• Getting good in the open water
• Wetsuit swimming
• Swing and fling
• Knowing when NOT to quit
• What addictions tell you
• Uncover, discover, discard

Check out Karlyn's website at:

http://aquaticedge.org/

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It’s always great to speak with our great mate Luke McKenzie. Today Luke ventured over to Pete’s place to get on The Fat Black and speak to us all about his crushing IMWA performance but the things leading up to that, which made the result possible. There is one tip that allows you to move forward from both the good and the bad. Enjoy.

• What Kona taught Luke
• How to deal with disappointment
• Amped vs relaxed
• Knowing when you have more to push
• Where the focus goes when you are on the edge
• Consistency in running
• Re-discovering the passion for swimming
• Self belief

Check out Luke's website and social media pages at:

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Today Pete and I speak with Arielle Fitzgerald on TFB and Arielle has one helluva story from being a budding track superstar, breaking records, winning medals and getting recruited for Division 1 and division 2 scholarships for university to her health slowly unraveling and people labelling her with an eating disorder … And all the way to reclaiming health, studying holistic nutrition and kicking ass in ultra running.

• Stress and expectations.
• Losing the fun of it.
• Wearing labels.
• The perfect storm.
• Learning to understand your body.
• How eating raw veggies can hurt you.
• How to know you’re not absorbing nutrients.
• What you learn when you make mistake.
• Trusting yourself.
• The power of belief.
• Eating bugs.
• Eating and travelling. Zen eating

Connect with Arielle on her website:

http://www.recoveryrunner.com/

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Pete and I get to chat with Jarrod Owen. A fast Aussie age grouper that had lots of success and then was sitting in Hawi at the midway point of Ironman World Champs with gut problems that led to a DNF. The journey down didn’t stop there but Jarrod has listened, applied and clawed his way back to health and racing at the pointy end of all age groups.

• The lessons from over a decade of racing
• The early warning signs of burnout
• Going too deep into LCHF
• Racing with bad habits
• Supporting your body the right way
• The first cause of fatigue
• Appreciating setbacks
• Being Grateful
• Balancing shift work
• Jarrod’s Daily habits

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Today Pete and I get to have a lively chat with founder and CEO of Trigger Point Performance Therapy Cassidy Phillips. We talk balls, maintenance, excuses, getting it done and ultimately what it’s all about at the end of the day.

• The value in rolling (just in case you have forgotten!)
• Some exciting new TP tools
• The key difference between the GRID and the ball
• Why triathletes continue to ignore body maintenance
• Making the commitment to your long term health
• Amatuer athletes treating themselves unproffesionally
• Being the best example of yourself
• Sport does not transcend life

Connect with Cassidy on the Trigger Point Therapy website:

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Cassidy’s YouTube Channel -A Bootstrapping Life

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