Episodes

Thursday Dec 15, 2022
What It’s Like Being Coached by a Sport Scientist (Part 2)
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Zach is a 70.3 triathlete who first walked in the METS Lab after giving Geelong 70.3 (2020) a go off little to no training. He did ok, 12 months later he destroyed that benchmark and 3 years on with Nick coaching him, he's been able to optimise his training to take his performance to a whole new level.
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Monday Dec 12, 2022
What It’s Like Being Coached by a Sport Scientist (Part 1)
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Zach is a 70.3 triathlete who first walked in the METS Lab after giving Geelong 70.3 (2020) a go off little to no training. He did ok, 12 months later he destroyed that benchmark and 3 years on with Nick coaching him, he's been able to optimise his training to take his performance to a whole new level.
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Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Fuelling for Race Day (Pre-Event Nutrition with Luke & Ethan - Active Health Clinic)
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
On this episode, Nick jumped on for a chat with Dieticians Luke & Ethan from Active Health Clinic to discuss nutritional choices leading into race day. Everything from carb loading considerations, smart food choices and how you can best ensure you get the fuel you need practically before your next endurance event.
You can contact the guys here:
Luke Hassan - luke@activehealthclinic.com.au
Ethan Said - ethan@activehealthclinic.com.au

Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Nick Chats w/ TriVelo
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Nick was invited on TriVelo's "Get Fast" podcast to chat about everything we do here at METS, testing, training zones, endurance and more. So, we thought we'd re-share the conversation here.
Check out TriVelo's podcast here:
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/get-fast-podcast-triathlon-ironman-cycling-coaching/id1400770015
Learn more about TriVelo here:
https://trivelocoaching.com.au

Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Cooling Strategies (The Extra 1%)
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Another Extra 1% tip episode, this time on Cooling Strategies to beat the heat, in particular pre-event when the aim is to maintain muscle temperature but reduce core temperature.
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Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Post Session Sauna (The Extra 1%?)
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
Thursday Mar 24, 2022
A new mini series on small 1% things to top up that final bit of performance for race day. In this one Nick and Luke discuss the use of Sauna's and the impact it might have in how you respond, particularly when racing in hot conditions.
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Thursday Mar 17, 2022
Lactate Testing -Should We All Be Testing It? (Pros, Cons & More)
Thursday Mar 17, 2022
Thursday Mar 17, 2022
A number of questions have come through recently on the back of the resurgence for lactate testing the field by a number of high profile athletes. So Luke and Nick discussed the pros and cons, plus a bunch on background info regarding lactate testing in general plus their thoughts on why and why not to do it.
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Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Swimming Thoughts w/ Nick
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Thursday Mar 10, 2022
Old school super short episode where Nick goes through some thoughts he's had whilst returning to swimming consistently for the first time since 2019 (and working around some injury constraints).
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Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Improving VO2max Intervals with Higher Cadence?
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Luke and Nick had 2 athletes both get in touch about the same podcast they listened to talking about using a high cadence for a "better" VO2max interval stimulus. So we sent our resident sport scientist Nick away to listen to it, research further and piece together what might be going on when cadence increases to give you the need to knows.
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Thursday Feb 24, 2022
Why Polarised? (80/20, Norwegian 90/10 & More)
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
We often receive lots of questions about polarised models of training and why they are effective, so here's the underpinning physiology and a little discussion around different scenarios influencing the balance between low and high intensity.
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