In today’s podcast episode, we were joined by the GodFather of Triathlon Coaching Joe Friel.

Not only is Joe one of the founding voices of triathlon training since it’s inception in the 80s, he’s also the founder of Training Peaks and the of 18 books with his Training Bibles’ becoming famous world wide.

But mostly, Joe is a true inspiration to us, he was a pioneer for power coaching and training when Gerard was learning about it in the 2000s.  

We felt very privileged to get to talk to Joe and of course we relished the opportunity to squeeze as much training knowledge as possible from him!

Keys to the episode:

• What gets measured improves
• Joe’s apology for things he previously said
• How to know if your goals are too far of a reach
• How much sleep do you need?
• The 5:2 method of training
• How do you fit in enough hard training in all 3 disciplines through the week?
• The exact type of session to do in preparation for an Ironman
• Which leg is the most important in a triathlon
• Why you don’t need to swim fast in training
• You need to just focus on drills until you can swim at this specific pace
• The 4 key elements to swimming fast: PDLC
• How to continue to be fast after 50
• The most important training session for the age group athlete as you get older
• Why you could perform just as well even if your VO2 max declines with age
• Joe’s personal performance habits
• Joe would rather poor training sessions done consistently than really good training sessions done inconsistently

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