Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Andy Blow is a Sport & Exercise Scientist, who has previously been the Team Sport Scientist for Benetton and Renault F1 racing tams, and is now the co-founder of Precision Hydration.  On the podcast, we talk to Andy about the hydration strategies, why athletes cramp up in the first place, how to handle hydration in the heat, and more.

Nick Bare is a well known bodybuilder on YouTube and Instagram, as well as the founder of Bare Performance Nutrition, but this November he'll add a new item to his resume: he'll complete an Ironman, his first ever triathlon. On the podcast, we talk to Nick about going from bodybuilding to endurance sports, maintaining his muscle mass while doing endurance training, and what he has thought of this...

On today's podcast, we answer one of the most-asked questions: what does a professional triathlete eat in a day?  We get that answer from pro Sarah Piampiano, who has been tearing up the field in 2018 and 2019, and her certified nutritionist (who also works as the Performance Sports Nutritionist for the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs) Scott Tindal. High fat?  Low fat?  Protein?  Carbs?  We get deep int...

Pete Jacobs is the 2012 Ironman World Champion, and he's also a strict carnivore, eating only fish, eggs, meat, water and salt on a daily basis.  On this week's edition of the Triathlon Taren podcast, we find out what Pete's been up to since 2012, whether we'll see him race in Kona again, and how he fuels Ironman training and racing on a meat-only diet.  

On this episode of the podcast, Triathlon Taren discusses the three keys beginner triathletes need to know to have a strong triathlon swim.  Taren's new book, "Triathlon Swimming Foundations" is also available for sale now at triathlontaren.com/triathlonswimmingbook

Rudy von Berg is a professional triathlete. Born in the USA, he grew up in France and is now back in the US, currently living and training in Boulder, Colorado.  Over the past 18 months, he's been tearing up the circuit with victories at (among others) the 2018 70.3 South American championship, the 2018/19 70.3 European Championship, and the 2019 70.3 North America Championship.  He comes by his t...

Triathlon Taren completed his first full distance (aka Ironman-distance) triathlon at Challenge Roth, in a blazing fast time of 9:41:32, quite a feat for a first full. Taren did it all under the guidance of Dr. Dan Plews, the 2018 Kona amateur champion who researches, teaches and coaches under the low carb, high fat paradigm.  And that's exactly how he trained Taren for Roth: low carb, high fat, w...

Maggie Walsh is an ultra runner-turned-triathlete, who absolutely smashed her way into the sport.  Just this past year, she entered Ironman Boulder, never having done a triathlon of any distance... and she proceeded to not only win the amateur division of the race but came in 4th overall, finishing ahead of many pros!  Thanks to her incredible showing, she was invited to the 2019 Zwift Tri Academy...

Matt Bottrill started his career as an elite cyclist when he was young, and he eventually became a professional cyclist and time trialist. In that time, he won 60 National medals and had 500 race wins, representing Great Britain on more than 30 occasions. In 2014, he started putting his vast cycling knowledge into use as a coach, when he started Matt Bottrill Performance Coaching.  In a short time...

On this week's edition of the Triathlon Taren podcast, Taren recaps Challenge Roth. He breaks down the travel to Germany, his nutrition before and during the race, plus the swim, the bike and the run in his first ever Ironman-distance race, which he finished in 9:41:38.

Pro triathlete Sam Long has blown 2019 out of the water, with four races in 37 days which included two IM 70.3 first-place finishes, Sam is on a tear. The Big Unit joined us first on the podcast in 2018 as a young athlete to watch; now he's keeping pace with some of the biggest names in the field. At 23 years old, he's only just begun!

Chris Lieto is a former professional triathlete who is now a triathlon consultant and coach. During his racing career from 2002 - 2014, he won multiple Ironman and Half Ironman Titles, multiple National Championships victories, and was runner up in two Ironman World Championships at Kona. One of the best cyclists the sport has ever seen, Chris has since moved to Kona where he lives full-time with...

You know him on Instagram as the triathlete who runs in a speedo.  Justin Lippert was a successful NCAA collegiate track and cross country runner at Clemson before he quit running altogether after his junior year. When some of his running buddies took up triathlon, Justin figured he'd try it too. Not only did he quickly fall in love with the sport, after just one summer of serious training, he won...

For the past two years in a row, Cameron Wurf has been the fastest male professional triathlete on the bike course at the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii. Now, with a 2019 win at the Cannes International Triathlon, Wurf has his sights set on a bigger finish in Kona this year.  On the podcast, we talk Wurf's rise through the ranks and how he's taken his experience in Olympic rowing and p...

Just a few short years ago, Chelsea Sodaro was a professional distance runner, running at lightning speed since college. An injury in 2016 prevented her from running so she cross-trained by swimming and cycling, and then her husband suggested she try triathlon. She transitioned to the sport (ITU) in late 2016 and hasn't looked back. Her long-disance debut race was IM 70.3 Indian Wells in 2018 whic...

Alex Hutchinson is the author of a must-read book for triathletes called Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance.  A Physicist turned journalist turned author (and a pretty good runner himself), Alex joins us on the podcast to talk about his findings in the book, what surprised him during his 10 years of researching and writing the book, and what all endurance ath...

Paul MacKinnon, better known as The Balanced Runner, is a professional run technique coach based in Melbourne, Australia.  He helps professional and amateur runners and triathletes, identify small changes they can make in their running form to produce huge gains in performance.  On this week's podcast, we talk to Paul about the basic principles of good running form, how he identifies and fixes pro...

Professional triathlete Lauren Goss looked to be on top of the world in 2018, with four wins, two second place and two third place finishes. But after winning 70.3 Lima, the 31-year old confessed 2018 was a blur as she was relying on depression medication and sleeping pills just to survive.  On today's podcast, Lauren talks about struggling with her mental health, what she did to pull herself out...

Kris Pinnow was nearly 375 pounds when he knew something had to change if he wanted to be around for his wife and daughter. He signed up for a weight loss guidance program through a local hospital in Wake Forest, NC, and on a whim, decided on giving triathlon a try with his new lifestyle and mindset. Now, down more than 100 lbs and still going, Kris has raced several triathlons including 70.3 Puer...

Dr. Paul Laursen is "Prof", one half of "Plews and Prof" with Dr. Dan Plews.  Laursen holds a PhD in Exercise Physiology and is a coach to numerous elite and professional athletes in various endurance-based sports. A triathlete himself, Prof's focus is on High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and the science and application of it in triathlon training.

On this week's edition of the Triathlon Taren podcast, we chat with Kurt Spenser, co-founder of one of the most popular brands in Triathlon today: ROKA, the creator of some of the best wetsuits in the world.  We talk about how they started the company, how they came up with some of their groundbreaking innovations in wetsuit technology, and about some of their products that never got off the groun...

On this week's edition of the podcast, Triathlon Taren does a deep dive into how much you should be running if you're a triathlete in training!  He talks about how many runs a week you need, what to do if you don't have enough time to run, what type of runs will benefit you most, and more.

Creatine is well known as a supplement to aid in weight lifting results, but could it help triathletes?  On this week's edition of the Triathlon Taren podcast, we talk to Dr. Scott Forbes of Brandon University about his extensive research into creatine and how the research shows it could be used to help triathlon performance.

Dr. Grant Schofield is a leader in the low-carb, high-fat field for endurance athletes. Co-author of What The Fat, and What the Fast, and a very fast triathlete in his day, Schofield is a respected PhD public health academic for the past 20 years.  He not only talks the talk, he walks the walk and lives the LCHF lifestyle, and helps triathletes become better fat burners to fuel long endurance effo...

SEBASTIAN WEBER has coached some of the world's top professional cycling teams and athletes for the past decade. With degrees in Sport Science and Molecular Human Biology, he was recognized as a top mind in sport science at age 28 when he was named the youngest Head Sports Scientist ever for the T-Mobile professional cycling team at age 28.  In the years since then, he founded the STAPS Human Perf...