This an interesting interview with swim coach Don Swartz.  He gave a talk in the early 1980s at an ASCA conference titled, "Nonsense and the Beginner's Mind:  Looking for a Quantum Leap."  It was his challenge to the swim coaching community to look for a better way to train athletes.  It is as relevant then as it is now.  Enjoy.  

Great interview with the inventor of the Brick Kickboard, James Fike.  We spend a good deal of the time talking about his post collegiate swimming career and how even after swimming at the University of Texas he has been able to hit his best times 17 years later.  We also talk about the development of the Brick Kickboard and how he wants to grow Fike Swim going forward.  

in this episode we talk with former NCAA Division I distance swimmer turned triathlete, Erin Sosdian.  Erin is an athlete I have coached for 5 years and the first athlete I coached in swim/bike/run.  We talk about the training that helped to qualify her for 70.3 Worlds and Kona and the process of mastering the skill of racing long distance triathlons.  

Bruce Beall is a long time rowing coach and former US Olympic Rower.  He started his coaching career on the East Coast in the 1970s.  In the early 1980s, he teamed up with Jon Kabat-Zinn on the application of mindfulness on competitive rowers while Beall was the rowing coach at Harvard.  In this episode we talk about that time and what he has learned over the years as coach and where mindfulness fits in.  

Special episode 12 is with Team Veranadra.  Vanessa, Dana, Fernanda and Sandra all came to me a couple years ago and said they wanted to compete in El Cruce - a 10k open water race in Mexico.  This is an interview with Vanessa, Fernanda and Sandra about their training and the race.  It's a fun time with great people who make up Magnolia Masters.  

Episode 24 is an interesting interview with a Alex Coates who is a former professional triathlete and currently working on her PhD in Exercise Physiology with an emphasis on overtraining in athletes.  We discuss some of the long held ideas in endurance training like Super Compensation on how there might be better ways to train.  We also talk about some of the early signs of overtraining or really under recovering and what they might be.  

A couple short, compact interviews with a few of the professional triathletes in attendance at the Magnolia Masters Pro Camp.  We talk about their careers, how and why they became a pro and what their goals are going forward.  

A little trip down amnesia lane with long time professional triathlete Justin Daerr.  We talk about his career in triathlon and his ideas around training and racing.  

Episode 23 is a great interview with Dr. Keith Kaufman.  He is a codeveloper of Mindful Sport Performance Enhancement.  They recently published a book on their protocol for the mental training side of sports enhancement.  There is a growing body of research, particularly for endurance sports, on the importance of the brain in peak performance.  MSPE is a well researched and studied intervention to begin to train the brain for better performance.  

Episode 22 features Jake Rauchbach a basketball coach and integrated player development coach who works and consults with Olympic, professional and collegiate athletes.  Jake has employed high performance mindfulness with players to achieve quantifiable performance increases on the court.  We talk about the opportunities with high performance mindfulness, the obstacles to implementing it with coaches as a consultant and where the future is with these interesting approaches to training the whole athlete.