Passion For Performance

Chris Visvis is an athlete with a rich sporting background at quite an early age. His experience includes gymnastics, cycling and now triathlon. Chris is also a talented content creator with a vibrant YouTube channel and is super active and creative on his Instagram account also. I highly recommend you to his socials. He can be found at @chrisvisvis This episode takes you through a lot of Chris's...

Jon Odams is a veteran Australian mountain biker known for his versatility across XC, enduro, downhill, and e-MTB. Jon is a recently crowned Masters World Champion and multiple-time national champion. Jon's skill and endurance have made him a standout in events like Port to Port and Cape to Cape, while he balances elite racing with family life and a professional career. In this Podcast we discuss...

In this episode Jeff and Pete are joined by Jarrod Crump, coach and performance analyst at HPT. Pete, Jeff and Jarrod discussed testing and race performance analysis, emphasizing the importance of proper planning and attention to detail. They also explored race dynamics, mental focus, and the balance between data-driven insights and the art of coaching in triathlon.

In this special sub-series, the roles are reversed—Thomas Leuchten takes over as host, while the Coach steps into the guest seat. In this episode, you'll get a deeper look at the coach's journey as we discuss what exactly is the art of coaching. How did it all begin? Who were the key influences? What have been the highs and the challenges along the way? And where is coaching headed in the future?...

In this episide the team discusses the importance of aerodynamics in triathlon, with a focus on testing and repeatability, and shared their learnings from recent testing sessions. They also discussed the complexities of aerodynamics, the need for individualized testing, and the potential pitfalls of overthinking and over-researching. The conversation ended with discussions on the importance of men...

In this episode, Jeff and Pete pull apart what has been a solid year in the quest for chasing what for some is the Holy Grail - racing the Ironman World Championships on the big island of Hawaii in Kailua-Kona.  We pull apart a race year so far that has had a close call in Port Macquarie Ironman, a "winter" race in Townsville at the World Triathlon Multisport Champs and most recently a successful...

In this episode we speak with Harry Wiles who has just returned from his second European racing block. We chat about the journey of getting around Europe, finding races and chasing prizemoney. This year Harry did 5 races including a 14 day block with 3 races in it.

Chasing Kona is back and in a big way ! In this latest episode Jeff grills HPT's 5 Kona qualifiers, Darren Alchin, Paul Linton, James Knight, Edward Quartly and James Martin on what their secret sauce was for their well deserved achievements of qualifying to race Ironman World Champs on the Big Island this October. 

There are no more passionate athletes in our squad than Sammy and Josh. We sat down and had a chat across a broad range of topics including what their original sporting history was, doing their first Ironman last year, a 6 month European trip and their triathlon "super fan" status. We also delve into the topic of gender equity in sport as well as do some predictions for this year's Kona race. 

Welcome to a chat with long time HPT athlete Thomas Leuchten.  Tom is a passionate endurance athlete and has a rich history cramming a lot of change into his life. He grew up in Germany and Turkey then moved to England and finally settled in Australia.  Listen in to hear about his huge career change, moving across the world and back again to study, riding the Paris-Roubaix Challenge event, mountai...

This chat starts as we go back to where it all started for Ben and JD. We then take the adventure racing journey with them that lead to them toeing the line side by side and successfully racing the Coast to Coast. 

Jeff and Pete start our 2024 series by taking stock, answering the following questions.  What is Chasing Kona  What has happened since we last spoke?  What's coming up  Topics include Whoop bands, Form goggles, food diaries, black swans, white swans, crash replacement policies, upcoming races and future guests. 

This episode we sit down with Harry Wiles and have a coach / athlete chat discussing how 2023 went and what were the main challenges of his first year competing in the Pro ranks.  Harry has an interesting history as an athlete. At 16 years of age he took cycling on and raced for the next 8 years competing with good success at the development team level. He then made a major switch and went to Cros...

Dan Atkins is the Head Coach of the AusTriathlon Performance Centre on the Gold Coast of Australia. Dan has done it all....from development squads to the Olympics. he has taken his career from being a swim coach where he learnt the skills of engaging, communicating and coaching with a large squad, up to a point now where he is coaching some of Australia's best short course triathletes competing on...

Steve Mackay is back to talk about Aerodynamics. He covers the theory and its surprising history in cycling and triathlon. With such highly individual and unusual outcomes, Steve concludes that the only way to know what is aerodynamic for the individual is to test it. Which is exactly what we will be doing for the next episide of Chasing Kona.

It's interview time and in this episode we are joined by James Martin. James has been in the sport only 5 years and has racked up an impressive list of achievements already.  3rd AG IM Cairns (IM debut) 2019 2nd OA virtual Ironman 2020 1st in AG IM Cairns 2021 1st OA Age Group Athlete Australian Long Course Champs 2021 1st OA AAA 2022 1st in AG IM Australia 2022  James has qualified for Kona 3 tim...

Fear, Motivation and Communication are my big 3 topics on this episode of The Performance Show. I delve into some pretty big examples of how the best performers in the world use every day skills to become great.   At the top of the show I also give you my Performance Of The Month. A spectacular example of someone with a deep love for their game turns that into success.  

In this episode we get Pete to give us his review of what he saw in the first Ironman World Champs to be held in Nice where we had 2 HPT athletes in Darren Alchin and Paul Linton.  We also go deep on season planning, specifically how we can look at Jeff's season ahead leading into quite a busy race schedule. 

With the addition of Chasing Kona to the Pod, the OG Performance Podcast gets a freshen up. I speak about my thoughts on what the new high performance program looks like and I have added some new segments .... "What I Saw" and "Performance of the Month". 

In his 50th year and his 8th Ironman, Darren Alchin recorded a 51 minute PB to go 9:46, 3rd in his AG, and securing a slot to the Ironman World Championship in Nice France. In this episode Darren unpacks what "having a real go" looks like and how that ultimately lead to his break out performance in Cairns. I wrote down a whole page of notes from Darren's tips including "it's all about the run". Wh...

Welcome to Chasing Kona ! This will be a series hosted by HPT athlete and previous podcast guest, Jeff Davis. Follow along as Jeff explores what it takes to Chase Kona.  In this intro we will have a quick look into how the concpet came about and what you can expect in upcoming episodes. 

In this episode I have a chat with Jenna Hallam about sports nutrition. Jenna is a dietican and we discuss how sports nutrition has become more mainstream in endurance sports. The golden rule was it being a no nerd chat. No detailed grams per hour chats.. just the basics and how to go about eating well for your sport. A little bit of background on Jenna : Double degree in Dietetics and Exercise Sp...

The third and final part of the series that firstly took us through "Back in the Day" as a personal retrospective, then onto "It's Not About The Bike" as a deep look into perhaps the discipline that can evoke the most passion in us as triathletes. The Future of Triathlon explores where we feel the sport is headed. From PTO, to the Ironman WC Kona / Nice split, to the impacts it will have on high p...

Klint Hoare has done it all it seems. Working at the highest level developing elite NRL teams and also 10 years as HP Manager for the NRL Referees he has become a master at leading people towards performance and getting the absolute best out of them. He literally has skin in the game and gets his hands dirty across all facets of development. Not to mention his experience in endurance sport in Tria...

In this episode I firstly take you through my 3 key loads i use when coaching an athlete. Then I explain a bit about load measurement and management. Lastly I put that together for you in a scenario to help you use these loads in training.  Show notes can be found on my website here