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Episode 55: Coping Imagery, In-Race Imagery, and Outcome Imagery: A Full Visualization Protocol (opens the original)
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Visualization is one of the most widely cited mental skills in endurance sport, and one of the least practiced. Athletes talk about it, nod when a coach brings it up, and go home without doing any of it. In this solo episode, I break down visualization into three distinct types — outcome imagery, in-race imagery, and coping imagery — with a specific protocol for each, built around one core premise: visualization convinces your brain the outcome it desires has already happened. Links and resource
Episode 54: In Search of a Sensible Training Philosophy — Mikael Eriksson on VO2 Max, Athlete Profiling, and the Limits of Literature (opens the original)
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Mikael Eriksson founded Scientific Triathlon in 2015 and has coached full time since 2017. He also hosts That Triathlon Show, a podcast with over 700 episodes in its archive that has become one of the most comprehensive educational resources in the sport. This conversation covers the question that organized it: what does a sensible training philosophy actually look like — and how do you build one that holds up across the cycling trends of polarized, threshold, Norwegian, sweet spot, and back aga
Episode 53: You Are Not the Voices in Your Head, or How to Fix Your Self-Talk (opens the original)
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My coaching intake questionnaires ask about fitness history, equipment, fueling, and injury background, but the thing athletes flag most consistently is imposter syndrome — and it appears whether an athlete has done fifteen Ironmans or is two weeks out from their first sprint triathlon. In this solo episode of The Infirmary, I break down the two types of self-talk — motivational and instructional — and walk you through a three-part process for catching negative internal voices, tracing them back
Episode 52: How to Achieve a Breakthrough Performance with Mark McCabe (opens the original)
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Mark McCabe wrote triathlon into his social calendar in 2020, stayed stuck at a 5:45 for four years, and then decided to find out what would happen if he actually gave the sport what it was asking for. Two and a half years of consistent work later — including a build block that got replaced by 23,000-step days in Italy, a Zoltar fortune machine in a casino, and instructions from his coach that scared his wife — he finished Ohio 70.3 in 4:11:50, jumped from the 62nd percentile to the top 8% of hi
Episode 51: Three Endurance Skills that Lead to Mastery (opens the original)
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I see the following situation far too often: an athlete who is completely reliant on their devices, doesn’t practice their fueling, and cannot change a flat tire. This kind of reliance is deeply fragile: it doesn’t take much to break it on race day. In this show, I walk through the three most important skills to an endurance athlete’s success, and there are far more qualitative measures than quantitative. We cover pacing, fueling, and equipment proficiency, ending with practical directions to im
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