Male Speaker: And you don't have to tell me this, but I want you to think about what number are you on the scale of 1 to 15. And what I do, is I take that number with the athletes that I coach, and that's how I coach them based on that number. If they come back with a number of 12, 13, then I know that, hey, triathlon is a priority in their life. Triathlon is a major priority. If they come back with a number of more like 5 or 6, I know that, hey, there is a lot of other things that come in ahead of him as far as priority had a triathlon for him.
So for instance, if there is an example where I have an athlete coaching, or I have an athlete training something during a Saturday or Sunday, and he is like, I want to do these things with my family, I am like, sure, go ahead, and I don't try to make it up, because I don't want to create any extra stress.
On the other hand if an athlete has it as a 12 or 13, and they say, hey, there is something I want to do, this weekend I go water skiing with a couple of buddies or someone, I am going to say, hey, you know what, I don't think you should. Because this is the number you came back with me, with a 12 or 13, and in the long run this day of training is going to help you a lot. So that's a number that you need to come up with.
So I want you to make sure you write these goals down somewhere where you always them, in like two or three spots that we talked about. Not just have it at one place, have it at two or three spots. It is so much more motivating to be down and out, and also when you flip something you are like, oh, these are my goals and that would get you out the door.
Actually one of the motivating things that help me was, whenever I felt like I just seek a triathlon, I would go down to Denver, and get stuck in rush hour traffic, and I would spend an hour in rush hour traffic, and I was like, I do not want anything to do with this. So I come home, get back on my bike right away, but that help motivate me. So that's about it for goal setting and time management.
Joe Friel: This is aways a bit of a tough subject I think, nutrition for anybody just not for athletes, or nutrition for general population. Nutrition is one of those subjects that we have all got very strong opinions on, bordering on being religions. It's kind of like abortion, gun control, and diet. We can start an argument with somebody just by bringing up the issue of fat or carbohydrate or protein or...
Any subject you are going to bring up, you can start an argument or party some place on that issue. So it's always kind of tough one to talk about, and try to take it out of the realm of being emotional about it, and having strong feelings about one way of eating versus another way of eating.
What I want to do about with this subject is take it into a realm that only applies to athletes. It's all where we look at from, from an athlete perspective. And as athletes, the thing we are most concerned about is recovery, and that is the key issue. We haven't talked about what training is, we talked about a little of the concept of training last night in the training triad discussion I gave you. But in the bigger context, training is everything you do in your life, when you are an athlete. You can't subtract anything out, and say that's not a part of training, it's everything.
Obviously it's your exercise you do. And if you are going to recover from that exercise, so you can do another exercise about fairly quickly, fairly soon, thereafter, a few hours later, maybe 48 hours later, or whatever, if you are going to do another workout fairly soon after that, you got to look at recovery to get it right, and recovery has to do with the stress in your life.
If you got lot of stress, you are going to recover slower. It has to do with how much sleep do you get. If you are not getting enough sleep, you are not going to recover very well. And also has to do with nutrition. Those three factors determine how well you recover after workouts, and therefore the quality of your training. If any one of those three pieces are lacking, too much stress, not enough sleep, and inadequate nutrition, you are just not going to recover very well.
So it really comes down to these three issues, and then all lifestyle sort of issues. We can't just say what you eat or drink, riding on the bike or swimming or running, is the key issue for athletes. It's what you eat and sleep, what you eat all day long, and drink all day long. It's everything. This is all a part of recovery.
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