This episode we have Dr Jim TaylorJim Taylor, Ph.D. Psychology, is an internationally recognized authority on the psychology of performance, sport, and parenting. His professional expertise encompasses performance and sport psychology, child development and parenting, and coaches education. Dr. Taylor has worked with professional, world-class, collegiate, and junior-elite athletes in tennis, skiing, cycling, triathlon, track and field, swimming, football, golf, baseball, and many other sports. He has also worked extensively outside of sport including in business, education, medicine, technology, and the performing arts. Dr. Taylor is the author of 19 books and is a highly sought after speaker speaker around the world. He hosts three podcasts: Train Your Mind for Athletic Success, Raising Young Athletes, and Crisis to Opportunity. His blog posts have been read by more than 10 million people. A former internationally ranked alpine ski racer, Dr. Taylor is also a 2nd degree black belt and certified instructor in karate, a marathon runner, and an Ironman and world-championship age-group triathlete.You can find out more over at Jims website, where you will find all his books, blogs, podcasts and lots of information.   www.Drjimtaylor.comYou can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GBFind us on Instagram amp_1967Twitter  agegroupmultisportpodcastFacebook AMPGBYouTube AMP GBWebsite is : agegroupmultisportpodcast.buzzsprout.comemail: [email protected]

On this episode we chat to Josh LahiniJosh has a sporting background in golf and karate growing up, after being challenged by a friend to have a go at one while they were watching and inspired by the 2012 Olympics. He continued triathlon during University  with a stint of ski racing. As well as a bit of under water pedal powered sub marine competition.He  likes to keep things varied and interesting and he then got to  compete for GB AG team twice in Glasgow and Weert and just qualified to represent again at euros in 2023!Hope you enjoy

Simon started running at school and joined his local club (Tamworth AC) at the age of 12 and went on to run for one of the top clubs in the country Birchfield Harriers when he was 25 for a few years until he did a triathlon with work in 2007 and then from that entering some local duathlons. Simon has done a few Ironman races too including Bolton, Tenby, and Zurich.Simon started to take duathlon more seriously in 2016 paying for his British Triathlon membership and doing his first qualification race at Clumber Park.Simon had some good results with 12th and 14th at Worlds and a 10th at the Europeans.At this time he was competing and training with Colitis, lifestyle changes since have seen a huge improvement and he hasntt had a flare-up for a few years now.Turning 40Simon became vegetarian and got a strength and conditioning coach and also started his Project 1660 to run a sub-16-minute 5k and a sub-60-minute 25-mile time trial to help with  duathlons. he has  since done Project 3455 (sub 34 min 10k and sub 55min 25-mile TT) and this year he is  doing Project 1620 (sub 16min 5k and sub 20minute TT). The aim of these projects is to give him a focus outside of the duathlon to push himself, which has really helped him,  as Simon spent a few years shying away from racing except for duathlon qualification races and championships. It's really brought him on the last few years.Duathlon Palmares 2021British Duathlon Championships, Oulton Park: Silver Medal National duathlon Championships, Croft Circuit: Silver MedalWorld Duathlon (40-44) 4th place (2nd fastest bike split) 12th overallDuathlon Palmares 2022National Duathlon Croft Circuit Yorkshire: Bronze. MedalBritish Triathlon Major Event Middle Distance qualifier, Cholmondeley Castle  / 1st OverallSimon has  worked hard over the past few seasons to get his V40 PBs down and also improve his time trialing to aid duathlons.You can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GBFind us on Instagram amp_1967Twitter  agegroupmultisportpodcastFacebook AMPGBYouTube AMP GBWebsite is : agegroupmultisportpodcast.buzzsprout.comemail: [email protected]

On episode 57 we have Agegrouper, Dentist, creator of the wonder clinic, the Do Better podcast and Blogger, Stevie Potter Stevie says “didn’t always start off in the blue tracksuit; I was just a clever potato for my formative years, with no passion for sport and certainly no aptitude for it, but I had always been an active kid and came from a family who always encouraged me to do my best.After realising the party lifestyle was taking its toll when I hit University, I decided it was time to do something about my health before it was too late and so my running journey began… Fast forward 13 very rollercoaster years and I’ve finished my dental degree, competed in international rowing competitions, run the London marathon, completed Ironman Wales, graced multiple running and triathlon podiums and have qualified to represent my country at the top level of amateur triathlon racing. When I started the Wonder Clinic, the aim was to use my clinical expertise to help people find confidence in their own skin, something I’d loved being able to do with my cosmetic dentistry. While I was on that journey, I realised I was also being asked by my clients about what to eat, how to train and how I had made it to where I had in my life outside of work. I realised then, that I also had the passion and knowledge to be able to coach them through the physical and mental strategies that had got me where I am today. Now, I spend most of my time sharing my knowledge of fitness and nutrition with my 1-2-1 coaching clients and in my group of motivated go-getters on facebook. I help people revolutionise the way they look at food and exercise and help them to see the importance of long term investment in their own wellbeing. I teach people to LOVE a healthy lifestyle, while still enjoying balance. I give people their confidence back and what’s more, they keep it that way. No faddy diets, no falling off the wagon, but true transformation, learning from all my successes and mistakes and more importantly, my years of experience and knowledge in my field which took me from academic potato to GB athlete!Hope you enjoy her story.You can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GBFind us on Instagram amp_1967Twitter  agegroupmultisportpodcastFacebook AMPGBYouTube AMP GBWebsite is : agegroupmultisportpodcast.buzzsprout.comemail: [email protected]

Jasons background as a runner stood him in good stead when he ventured into Duathlon on a borrowed bike. Listen to Jasons journey from life long runner including Fell running and cross country to having a go at Duathlon and being pretty good at it. That led him into the world of qualifying  and representing GB, where his results have been a mixed bag. After a Mountain Bike crash and broken collar bone and ribs he is recovering  to once again represent GB in Spain Bilbao, in September. Great conversation, hope you enjoy.You can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GBFind us on Instagram amp_1967Twitter  agegroupmultisportpodcastFacebook AMPGBYouTube AMP GBWebsite is : agegroupmultisportpodcast.buzzsprout.comemail: [email protected]

On Episode 55 we welcome back Yiannis. It was 2 years ago since we first met Yiannis just as we were going into lockdown. That was episode 9, we now catch up with him and find out how he got through covid and what races he has been doing and how he has got on in them.Hope you enjoy this catch up. You can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GBFind us on Instagram amp_1967Twitter  agegroupmultisportpodcastFacebook AMPGBYouTube AMP GBWebsite is : agegroupmultisportpodcast.buzzsprout.comemail: [email protected]

We are back after the holiday break. On this episode we chat to Martin Hopwood  now 65, he first took up triathlon in 2007 at the age of 50. Since that time he has competed in over 60 triathlons qualifying for the GB age group team in 2010 competing at the World AG Championships Beijing 2011. Competed in subsequent World and European championships in Alanya, Kitzbuhel, Geneva & London. Following a 6th place Ironman distance race at the European Age Group Championships in Weymouth in September 2015 Martin was diagnosed with lower colorectal cancer. Martin was then treated with an 8-week combination of chemoradiotherapy followed by a ten-week window of rest before major surgery and finally 6 months of curative chemotherapy. Since that time he has  fought back to similar levels of fitness but with the limitations of a two third reduction in bowel capacity and neuropathy of the feet. However in 2008 Martin completed the Escape from Alcatraz triathlon in San Francisco and qualified once again for the GB AG team in Brighton 2019.Hope you enjoy Martins journey.You can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GBFind us on Instagram amp_1967Twitter  agegroupmultisportpodcastFacebook AMPGBYouTube AMP GBWebsite is : agegroupmultisportpodcast.buzzsprout.comemail: [email protected]

On this Episode we are delighted to have Rosalind  Davies Jones, who was an athlete we had on our spin off show AMP Next Gen,  We followed Rosalinds journey as she tried to qualify to represent Team GB at Aqua Bike. At the end of  March she had her qualifying race and we are delighted to say , she not only qualified as Q1 in her age group but she was first lady overall. Ros goes into detail about her sporting background as a child, her first triathlon and getting into Multisport in a big way at `University.It was after listening to our podcast that Ros decided to take part in AMP Next Gen and try to qualify, as the podcast give her some countability.Hope you Rosalind's Journey.

On this episode we have a couple of firsts. Number 1 we have our first two person podcast, number two we have a man and wife agegroup team. Bjorn and Gemma have both qualified and raced for team GB, after having no sporting background as such, growing up, they got into running which progressed into multisport. They tells a bit about how they met and how they supported each other each step of the way and how their biggest ambition, back to back Scandanavian Ironmans came to be. they talk about the ups and downs over the three years which this was in the planning and until this year knocked back at every turn.They discuss the reason they are doing it and the worthy charity they hope to help when they complete it. So whatever your doing, enjoy their journey.You can donate to justgiving.com/fundraising/gemmahughes39 to help with their fundraisingfor more info on our sponsor head over to Prescasportswear.comand if you were interested in REAP bike find out more on reapbikes.comYou can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GBFind us on Instagram amp_1967Twitter  agegroupmultisportpodcastFacebook AMPGBYouTube AMP GBWebsite is : agegroupmultisportpodcast.buzzsprout.comemail: [email protected]

On our final episode of AMP Next Gen, Ros shares her final audio diary and talks about competing her race to qualify to represent GB in Agegroup in the standard Aquabike.You can listen to this AMP episode and all the others on most podcast platforms and now we a have our own YouTube channel : AMP GBFind us on Instagram amp_1967Twitter  agegroupmultisportpodcastFacebook AMPGBYouTube AMP GBWebsite is : agegroupmultisportpodcast.buzzsprout.comemail: agegroupmultisportpodcast