Developing a Performance Mindset * Simon Ward and David Tilbury Davis

In today’s show, another of my old coaching buddies is back to chat about what’s been happening in his coaching world during the last 6 months.

David Tilbury Davis is a triathlon coach who works with athletes who have a ”performance mindset”.  Among the athletes he currently works with are Lionel Sanders, Kim Morrison, and Rasmus Svenningsson and we chat about each of them today.

I’ve known David for over 20 years during which time his journey has seen him progress from novice to one of the world’s prominent long-distance triathlon coaches via Spain, Texas, Seattle, and now Finland.

I love watching my friends develop on their own journeys and David is no different.  It’s a real pleasure to welcome him back onto the show to share some of the knowledge and experience he’s gained in the last two decades.  I just wish that this catch-up could have been over a beer or two at some race venue but that’ll have to wait for another time. For now, listen in as we chat about:

• The Lionel Sanders 1-hour Canadian record attempt
• Differences between riding a track bike and a TT bike (TIP: there are way more than you think)
• Training like a triathlete while aiming to break a cycling record
• Combining a cycling record attempt with setting a 5k running PB
• Rasmus Svenningsson solo sub-8 hour Ironman
• Giving athletes free rein to try something different
• David’s thoughts on the upcoming PTO Challenge Daytona Pro race
• Why polarised training for triathletes is not quite as simple as 80/20

To follow David on social media or find out a bit more about him or his athletes please use the following links

Website - Tilburydavis.com

Instagram - coachtilburs

Twitter - @tilburydavis

We covered a lot of ground in this conversation so here are the links to some of what we discussed:

Books

Dark Horse - Achieving success through the pursuit of fulfillment - Todd Rose

Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success- Steve Magness

Conscious Coaching The Art and Science of Building Buy in - Brett Bartholomew

Will It make the Boat Go faster - Ben Hunt-Davis

 

Lionel Sanders 1-hr record on YouTube

Some of Lionel’s training sessions for the 1-hour record

Session 1

Session 2

Lionel’s 5k PB attempts

Session 5 & 6

And there’s more on this page HERE

David mentioned the performance profiling document he uses with new athletes.  It’s based on this research paper:

Pelletier, L. G., Fortier, M. S., & Vallerand, R. J. (1995). Toward a new measure of intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and motivation in sports: The Sport Motivation Scale (SMS).

We also discussed this paper with regard to polarised training for triathletes - The Polarization-Index: A Simple Calculation to Distinguish Polarized From Non-polarized Training Intensity Distributions

To find out more about Simon’s SWAT programme, please click HERE 

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