Stay ConnectedThe Taren’s MōTTIV Method Podcast is the place to go if you’re an age group triathlete, runner, cyclist, swimrunner, or any other type of endurance athlete. Every Friday on the Taren’s MōTTIV Method Podcast you’ll hear fun, engaging and informative endurance-related conversations led by Taren, proving that ordinary people CAN accomplish extraordinary things.
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Alex Hutchinson is the author of a must-read book for triathletes called Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. A Physicist turned journalist turned author (and a pretty good runner himself), Alex joins us on the podcast to talk about his findings in the book, what surprised him during his 10 years of researching and writing the book, and what all endurance athletes (particularly triathletes) need to know.
Paul MacKinnon, better known as The Balanced Runner, is a professional run technique coach based in Melbourne, Australia. He helps professional and amateur runners and triathletes, identify small changes they can make in their running form to produce huge gains in performance. On this week's podcast, we talk to Paul about the basic principles of good running form, how he identifies and fixes problems in a person's stride, and what he has to say about Taren's running form.
Professional triathlete Lauren Goss looked to be on top of the world in 2018, with four wins, two second place and two third place finishes. But after winning 70.3 Lima, the 31-year old confessed 2018 was a blur as she was relying on depression medication and sleeping pills just to survive. On today's podcast, Lauren talks about struggling with her mental health, what she did to pull herself out of the dark hole she found herself in, and how she's feeling today (hint: pretty darn great).
Kris Pinnow was nearly 375 pounds when he knew something had to change if he wanted to be around for his wife and daughter. He signed up for a weight loss guidance program through a local hospital in Wake Forest, NC, and on a whim, decided on giving triathlon a try with his new lifestyle and mindset. Now, down more than 100 lbs and still going, Kris has raced several triathlons including 70.3 Puerto Rico, and he's signed up for a full IM race later this year.
Dr. Paul Laursen is "Prof", one half of "Plews and Prof" with Dr. Dan Plews. Laursen holds a PhD in Exercise Physiology and is a coach to numerous elite and professional athletes in various endurance-based sports. A triathlete himself, Prof's focus is on High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and the science and application of it in triathlon training.
On this week's edition of the Triathlon Taren podcast, we chat with Kurt Spenser, co-founder of one of the most popular brands in Triathlon today: ROKA, the creator of some of the best wetsuits in the world. We talk about how they started the company, how they came up with some of their groundbreaking innovations in wetsuit technology, and about some of their products that never got off the ground!
On this week's edition of the podcast, Triathlon Taren does a deep dive into how much you should be running if you're a triathlete in training! He talks about how many runs a week you need, what to do if you don't have enough time to run, what type of runs will benefit you most, and more.
Creatine is well known as a supplement to aid in weight lifting results, but could it help triathletes? On this week's edition of the Triathlon Taren podcast, we talk to Dr. Scott Forbes of Brandon University about his extensive research into creatine and how the research shows it could be used to help triathlon performance.
Dr. Grant Schofield is a leader in the low-carb, high-fat field for endurance athletes. Co-author of What The Fat, and What the Fast, and a very fast triathlete in his day, Schofield is a respected PhD public health academic for the past 20 years. He not only talks the talk, he walks the walk and lives the LCHF lifestyle, and helps triathletes become better fat burners to fuel long endurance efforts.
SEBASTIAN WEBER has coached some of the world's top professional cycling teams and athletes for the past decade. With degrees in Sport Science and Molecular Human Biology, he was recognized as a top mind in sport science at age 28 when he was named the youngest Head Sports Scientist ever for the T-Mobile professional cycling team at age 28. In the years since then, he founded the STAPS Human Performance Lab in Germany and has helped athletes win at the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, the Vuelta, multiple World Championships and Olympic medals. Most recently, his methods of applied analysis of energy metabolism have caught wider interest and he's been working with athletes in other sports, including Ironman Kona bike course record holder, pro triathlete Cam Wurf.
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