Neil MacPherson is Scottish coach living in Cape Town, where he owns and runs the coaching business Dinamic Coaching. In addition to his own coaching and performance center services, Neil has also served as a coach educator and facilitator for British Triathlon and for the International Triathlon Union (ITU). In this interview, we discuss Neil's training and coaching philosophy, get into specific case studies, and much more.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Neil's coaching and training philosophy
-Case study: taking an explosive athlete (Olympian) and coaching them towards an Ironman
-How to break past performance plateaus for age-group triathletes
-Swim technique, and using the SmartPaddle for quantitative analysis of your swim stroke
-The skills that aspiring (and established) coaches really have to learn
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