Joe Skipper is a 5 x Ironman Champion and one of the biggest & best personalities in the sport of triathlon. He trains, races and speaks with his heart on his sleeve and brings a honest, open and real approach to the way he talks about the sport & his life. In this episode we talk all things training, racing, how much money pro triathletes make and how, athletes being afraid to put themselves out there because of social media haters, rivalries, podcasting naked and much much more.

On todays episode I’m joined by professional ultra marathon & trail runners Hayden Hawks and Blake Hose. We discuss all things ultra & trail running from running 200+km weeks, the mental side of running 160km races, nutrition, how much money professional trail runners make, running shoe choices, embarrassing bathroom break stories whilst running and much much more. 

David McNamee is a professional triathlete most well known for finishing on the podium at the Ironman World Champs 2 years in a row and having the 5th fastest time there of all time. In this episode we discuss his time as a main training partner of Jan Frodeno, doping in triathlon, training for the world champs, his predictions for this years Ironman world champs happening in 3 weeks time and much, much more. 

Dave Scott is a 6 x Ironman World Champion. He also finished runner up at the Ironman World Championships 3 times, something that often gets forgotten about because of his 6 wins. Dave might be best known for being one of the people involved in the famous “ironwar” where he and fellow legend Mark Allen ran side by side in an epic battle for most of the marathon at the end of the 1989 world championships - which, if you haven’t watched, do yourself a favour & go to YouTube right now.   Dave has since gone on to become one of the great coaches with names like 3 x Ironman World Champion Craig Alexander & 4 x Ironman World Champion Chrissie Wellington on his resume.

Brett Sutton is arguably the greatest triathlon coach of all time. He has coached athletes such as Daniela Ryf, Nicola Spirig, Chrissie Wellington, Emma Snowsill (Frodeno), Craig Walton, Brad Kahlefeldt, Loretta Harrop and many many more. That's 2 x Olympic Gold Medalists, 2 x Olympic Silver medalists, 6 x Ironman World Champions, 5 x Ironman 70.3 World Champions, WTS/ITU World Champions, Grand Final winners, hundreds of Ironman/Ironman 70.3 wins and even more podiums. The list goes on and on. We talk about ALL things training with Brett and leave no stone unturned in what his philosophies are and how he implements them.

Brett Sutton is arguably the greatest triathlon coach of all time. He has coached athletes such as Daniela Ryf, Nicola Spirig, Chrissie Wellington, Emma Snowsill (Frodeno), Craig Walton, Brad Kahlefeldt, Loretta Harrop and many many more. That's 2 x Olympic Gold Medalists, 2 x Olympic Silver medalists, 6 x Ironman World Champions, 5 x Ironman 70.3 World Champions, WTS/ITU World Champions, Grand Final winners, hundreds of Ironman/Ironman 70.3 wins and even more podiums. The list goes on and on. We talk about ALL things training with Brett and leave no stone unturned in what his philosophies are and how he implements them.

Non Stanford is a professional triathlete who won the 2013 World Championship. She came 4th in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games (missing the podium by 3 seconds), won the WTS Grand Final, was the 2012 Under 23 World Triathlon Champion and has won multiple other WTS races. Non has spent most of her professional triathlon career living and training in Leeds in the UK alongside some of the greatest triathletes of all time and has so many training and racing stories from her time in the sport.

Jack Jenkins is an Australian professional MMA fighter. He is the Australian Champion and defended his belt for the 3rd time on the weekend. He is now undisputedly the best MMA fighter in the country. We talk about the build up into his fight, his training, his weight cut and go deep on the ups and downs of his career from crying in a bath tub to winning fights in front of packed stadiums. This is an inside look into the life of an MMA athlete that doesn't really get told anywhere and was fascinating. Jack is also my best friend, so having him on the show was special.

Pete Jacobs won the 2012 Ironman World Championships in one of the more dominant performances we've seen. We talk in detail about what got him there and the role finishing runner up the year before played in that. We go deep on the inner workings of a race like the world championships in a way you don't really hear much about. Pete was the favourite to win in 2012 so hearing about what he did and where his head was at in the weeks leading up to being favourite to win the word champs, what he did the night before, the morning of, seconds before the gun went off was fascinating. We then talk about what's happened since then and where he's at currently. 

Today we are joined by American professional triathlete Ben Hoffman and co-hosted for the first time by Australian pro triathlete and guest on Ep 1 of How They Train Tim Reed. Reedy is a good mate of host Jack. The boys talk about all things racing & training. They discuss how training effects sex life, future goals, big races and how Hoff has trained to get his best results.    As Jack talked about in the intro, we are selling some merch to help those effected by the floods in Australia atm. The link to buy them is below!! If you do buy one thanks so much for helping out and supporting a cause really close to our hearts that's wreaking havoc at the moment.    https://howtheytrainpodcast.myshopify.com/