Joe Friel, MSc, has trained endurance athletes since 1980. He
served as head coach of the U.S. national triathlon team at the world
championships in 2000, and athletes he has worked with have appeared in
the Olympic Games and world and national championships. He is cofounder
of USA Triathlon’s National Coaching Association and served on the USA
Triathlon Coaching Certification Committee. Friel is a Colorado state
masters triathlon champion and a Rocky Mountain region and Southwest
region duathlon age-group champion, and he has been a perennial USA
Triathlon All-American duathlete. As a member of several national
duathlon teams, Friel was a top 5 contender in world-class events and
competed in road running and United States Cycling Federation races. He
is the author of The Triathlete’s Training Bible, Your First
Triathlon, Your Best Triathlon, Total Heart Rate Training, and The
Paleo Diet for Athletes. He is a contributor to Precision Heart
Rate Training and USA Triathlon’s Complete Triathlon Guide.
Jim Vance is a triathlon and duathlon, running, and cycling coach
at TrainingBible Coaching and the founder and head coach of TriJuniors,
a USAT high-performance team in San Diego. For his coaching, he was
awarded the 2009 Tri Club of San Diego Coach of the Year and was
appointed U.S. elite national team coach for the Duathlon World
Championships in 2011 and 2012. He has coached athletes who have won or
qualified for events, including the U.S. Elite National Championship,
Elite ITU World Championship, Ironman World Championship, 70.3 World
Championship, and XTERRA European Tour Elite. A former elite triathlete
who spent time at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, Vance placed third
in the Florida Ironman and was an International Triathlon Union age
group world champion, an XTERRA amateur world champion, and a letter
winner at the University of Nebraska in track and field and cross
country.
Ildus I. Ahmetov is the head of the Laboratory of Molecular
Genetics at Kazan State Medical University. He also serves as a senior
research fellow of the Sports Genetics Laboratory at the St. Petersburg
Research Institute of Physical Culture and as a senior research fellow
of the Laboratory of Exercise Physiology at the Institute for Biomedical
Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He won Young Investigators
Awards in 2007 and 2010 for projects documenting genetic variants in
athletes and is author of Molecular Sports Genetics.
Hunter Allen is a former professional cyclist, renowned coach,
and expert in using power meters to train endurance athletes. As a
professional racer for 17 years, he earned more than 40 career victories
in competitions around the world. Upon retiring from racing, Allen
became a USA Cycling elite-level cycling coach and certified nutrition
consultant. He has coached more than 400 athletes, including the 2008
USA Cycling BMX Olympic team, champions of the European road racing
circuit, and champion mountain bikers. He writes for Road
magazine and Cycling Weekly, and he coauthored Training and
Racing With a Power Meter and Cutting-Edge Cycling. Allen is
the founder of Peaks Coaching Group and is a codeveloper of
TrainingPeaks WKO software, a leading program for analyzing data from
power meters.
Gale Bernhardt is a triathlon, cycling, and endurance coach. She
served as the 2004 USA Triathlon Olympic coach for both the men's and
women's teams and was selected by USA Triathlon to serve as the 2003 Pan
American Games men’s and women’s coach. She has served as a USA
Triathlon World Cup coach for the International Triathlon Union (ITU)
sport development squad and has worked internationally for the ITU as an
expert World Cup coach. She has worked with Olympic athletes and winners
of the USA Cycling Pro National Championship race. Bernhardt is author
of five books for triathletes: Training Plans for Multisport
Athletes, Triathlon Training Basics, Bicycling for Women, Training Plans
for Cyclists, and Swim Workouts for Triathletes. She is also
a contributor to The Woman Triathlete.
Jeff Broker, PhD, has been involved in the study of pedaling
mechanics and optimal integration of rider and bicycle since 1987. He
worked at the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) as a senior sport
biomechanist for nearly 10 years, through which he worked with the USA
Triathlon and U.S. national cycling teams to optimize integration of
rider and bicycle. He has worked with nine U.S. sports federations,
including the U.S. Cycling Federation, USA Triathlon, and USA Track &
Field. Broker is author of Bicycle Accidents: Biomechanics,
Engineering, and Legal Aspects and is a contributor to High-Tech
Cycling and International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Handbook of Sports
Medicine: Road Cycling. He currently serves as an associate
professor and chair of the biology department at the University of
Colorado.
Professor Malcolm Collins leads a productive research group
investigating the biological mechanisms of musculoskeletal soft tissue
injuries and endurance performance. His research interests include
genetic elements that determine the endurance phenotype and the
interindividual physiological responses during participation in
endurance events. He has published more than 70 papers in scientific
journals and book chapters, several focused on Ironman triathletes. He
serves as a professor in the Research Unit for Exercise Science and
Sports Medicine (ESSM) at the University of Cape Town.
JoAnn Dahlkoetter, PhD, is founder of Performing Edge Coaching
International, a global resource and certification training program for
sport psychology coaches. She is an internationally recognized keynote
speaker and world-class athlete. She is a past winner of the San
Francisco Marathon (2:43:20), placed second in the Hawaii Ironman
Triathlon, and was rated the top triathlete in the United States by Triathlete
magazine. She is the author of the best-selling book Your Performing
Edge, and her work has been published in Runner’s World,
Fitness magazine, Time, and Sports Illustrated. She is
a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Triathlete
magazine. Dr. Dahlkoetter has appeared as an expert guest on numerous
shows, including Oprah and Friends, ABC Sports, and NBC Olympics.
She is a licensed clinical psychologist and medical staff member at
Stanford University Medical Center and maintains a full-time private
practice. In her 30 years of clinical practice, Dr. Dahlkoetter has
worked with five Olympic gold medalists and numerous Olympic and
professional athletes. She continues to train and race in the San
Francisco Bay Area.
George M. Dallam, PhD, a 30-year triathlete and coach, is the
founding member of the National Coaching Commission of USA Triathlon and
was USA Triathlon's first national team coach. Throughout his coaching
career, Dallam has served as a personal coach to several elite
triathletes: Hunter Kemper, Amanda Stevens, Marcel Vifian, Callahan
Hatfield, Michael Smedley, Ryan Bickerstaff, Nick Radkewich, Susan
Williams, Laura Reback, Becky Lavelle, and Doug Friman. Athletes under
his direction have won seven National Elite Championships, Pan American
Games gold and silver medals, World Cup medals, and World and U.S.
Age-Group Championships. They’ve also qualified for and been among the
top American male finishers in three Olympic Games. In 2005, he was a
finalist for the United States Olympic Committee’s esteemed “Doc”
Counsilman Award for Science in Coaching. He was named USA Triathlon's
Elite Coach of the Year in 2006. Dallam has been a professor of exercise
science and health promotion at Colorado State University at Pueblo
since 1997. As a sport scientist, he has authored and coauthored
numerous scientific papers and books related to triathlon, including
Championship Triathlon Training. He is a contributor to USA
Triathlon’s Complete Triathlon Guide.
Matt Fitzgerald is a running and triathlon coach, sport
nutritionist, and USA Triathlon All-American. He placed second overall
in the 2004 Long Beach Triathlon and was an Ironman finisher. He has
contributed to many triathlon publications, including Triathlete
Magazine (for which he was the former senior editor), Triathlete, and
Inside Triathlon. He has been featured on TrainingPeaks and Active.com.
His many writing accomplishments include authoring Triathlete
Magazine’s Complete Triathlon Book, Triathlete Magazine’s Essential
Week-by-Week Training Guide, Racing Weight, Iron War, Run: The Mind-Body
Method of Running by Feel, and Brain Training for Runners. He
coauthored Run Faster from the 5K to the Marathon and The
Runner's Edge.
Neal Henderson is a triathlon coach, sport science director at
the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine, and a consultant to USA Cycling,
USA Triathlon, and Specialized Bicycle Components. He has coached
numerous elite triathletes, including Cameron Dye, Flora Duffy, Seth
Wealing, and Jamie Whitmore, and has worked with cyclists Taylor Phinney
and Roman Kreuziger. He was named USA Cycling National Coach of the Year
in 2009 and USA Cycling Developmental Coach of the Year in 2007. He is a
USA Triathlon level 3 elite coach and USA Cycling level 1 elite coach.
He was a member of the USA Triathlon National Coaches Commission from
2003 to 2008. As a triathlon participant, he was a top American finisher
at the International Triathlon Union Winter Triathlon World
Championships in 2002 and 2003 and was first place amateur overall at
XTERRA Keystone in 1999.
Nathan Koch is founder, director, and owner of Endurance Rehab
LLC, the official training center for Joe Friel's Ultrafit. He is also
an instructor of advanced bike fit classes at the Serotta International
Cycling Institute. He writes regularly about sports injuries and
recovery for Triathlete magazine and Lava magazine. Koch
has provided sports medicine to NCAA Division I men's and women's
athletics at Saint Louis University and the University of Nebraska, and
he spent three seasons working for the St. Louis Rams and a sports
medicine clinic (ProRehab) in St. Louis, where he worked with
professional athletes. He has presented core strengthening for the
endurance athlete to teams of elite medical professionals and has worked
closely with them to provide the most technologically advanced sports
medicine available.
Sean Langlais is a consultant for Biomechanics Engineering, where
he examines the biomechanics of injuries, including those occurring
during cycling. He recently had his article “Grip Pressure Distributions
and Associated Variability in Golf: A Two-Club Comparison” published in
the Journal of Biomechanics. After receiving his MSc in exercise
science from the University of Colorado, Langlais worked with Carmichael
Training Systems, where he helped train cyclists and triathletes in
endurance. At CTS, he also served as the in-house bicycle mechanic. He
has worked with USA Cycling as the team mechanic for the Junior National
Mountain Bike skills camp.
Romuald Lepers is an assistant professor at the faculty of sport
sciences in Dijon at Burgundy University in France. His research
interests include exercise physiology, neuromuscular fatigue, and the
effects of age and sex on endurance performances. He has published more
than 70 articles, many on triathlon and endurance, in Journal of
Sports Sciences, European Journal of Applied Physiology, and
Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. He is a
frequent triathlon participant, having completed 21 Ironman races, 4 of
which were the Hawaii Ironman.
Bruce R. Mason is the head of the Aquatics Testing Training and
Research Unit at the Australian Institute of Sport, where he provides
biomechanical servicing to the Australian Institute of Sport swim team
and Australian swim team. He was the chief biomechanical advisor to the
Australian swim team from 1994 to 2002, for which he received the Order
of Australia Medal and Australian Sports Medal from the Australian
government. He also twice received awards for Outstanding Contribution
to Swimming in Australia from the Australia Swim Coaches & Teachers
Association. His research in swimming biomechanics has led him to
present at ISBS and BMS international conferences. Mason has contributed
to three books on swimming: The Swim Coaching Bible, World Book of
Swimming, and Triathlon Into the Nineties.
Stephen J. McGregor, PhD, a former triathlete and elite
competitive cyclist, coached endurance athletes for more than 15 years,
advising numerous cyclists, triathletes, and runners at the national and
international levels. He has been appointed as physiological advisor to
both the 2008 U.S. Olympic BMX team and Eastern Michigan University
men's cross country and distance track team. He has presented at
numerous conferences, including USA Triathlon Art and Science of
Coaching. He is a USA Cycling level I coach and is an instructor for the
USA Cycling Level II Coaching Certification Sports Sciences, USA Cycling
Power Training Certification Course, USA Cycling Level I (Elite)
Coaching Certification Interval Training, and South African Coaching and
Power Training Certification. He is the director of both the Applied
Physiology Laboratory and the Human Factors-Dynamical Systems Laboratory
at Eastern Michigan University. He is coauthor of The Runner's Edge.
David Pease is a senior biomechanist and the deputy head of
discipline in the Aquatic Testing, Training, and Research Unit at the
Australian Institute of Sport, where he conducts research on enhancing
swimming performance and helps the swim program monitor athletes during
training sessions. With more than 20 years of experience in swimming
biomechanics, he has served as a biomechanist for USA Swimming and New
Zealand Swimming. He has also worked with United States Swimming’s
International Center for Aquatic Research (ICAR) and the United States
Olympic Committee’s Sport Science division. He was a competitive swimmer
from the age of 6 through university level, when he swam for the
University of Southern California.
John Post, MD, is the medical director at TrainingBible Coaching
and an orthopedic surgeon at Martha Jefferson Hospital in
Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a widely read medical and triathlon
author and lecturer who presents nationally and runs his own endurance
athlete blog. For more than 20 years, his focus has included surgical
and nonsurgical knee and shoulder care in endurance athletes. A veteran
triathlete, Post has finished the Hawaii Ironman six times in addition
to participating in the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim and the English
Channel Relay Swim.
Gina Sacilotto is a research assistant in the Aquatics Testing
Training and Research Unit at the Australian Institute of Sport
Aquatics, where she assists Bruce R. Mason in research for athletes and
coaches to enhance performance. She is an open-water competitive
swimmer. Through her research she has explored active drag in swimming,
anthropometry in swimming, and the development of new aquatics
biomechanical systems to enhance swimmers’ performance.
Bob Seebohar, MS, RD, CSSD, CSCS, is owner of Fuel4mance, a
leading nutrition consulting firm serving amateur and elite athletes;
Kids that TRI 501c3 youth triathlon team; and Performance Webinars, an
educational webinar company. He is co-owner of Elite Multisport
coaching. In 2008, Seebohar traveled to the Summer Olympic Games in
Beijing as a sport dietitian for the U.S. Olympic team and as the
personal sport dietitian and exercise physiologist for the Olympic
triathlon team. He has worked closely with triathletes Susan Williams
(2004 Olympic bronze medalist), Sarah Haskins, and Jasmine Oeinck (2009
national elite champion). He has also been appointed as a sport
nutrition consultant for the USA Triathlon Olympic and developmental
teams. Seebohar is a USA Triathlon elite level III coach and a frequent
presenter for USA Triathlon coaching certification clinics. In 1996, he
represented the United States as a member of the duathlon team at the
World Championships. He has competed in numerous endurance events
including the Boston Marathon and six Ironman races. He is author of
eight books on endurance and nutrition, including Performance
Nutrition: Applying the Science of Nutrient Timing and Nutrition
Periodization for Athletes. He is a contributor to USA Triathlon’s Complete
Triathlon Guide.
Dr. Ross Tucker is senior lecturer with the University of Cape
Town's exercise science and sports medicine department where he has
studied topics including fatigue and the role of the brain in
determining pacing strategy and exercise performance. He serves as a
sport scientist and strategist for the Springbok Sevens rugby team and
has recently worked with kayakers Shaun Rubenstein and Mike Arthur in
preparation for the 2012 London Olympics. He serves as the scientific
editor of Runner’s World South Africa and as a contributor
and editor to Health24, South Africa's largest fitness- and
health-related website. He is a consultant technical expert and
physiologist with Adidas South Africa and consults Discovery Health,
Powerade, and Sports Illustrated. He has coauthored Runner's
World Magazine’s The Runner's Body and participates regularly
in 10k races and half-marathons.
David Warden is cofounder of PowerTri.com. He founded David
Warden Coaching, where he coaches triathletes of all abilities. An
internationally recognized triathlon coach and overall winner of 19
triathlon events, he is former vice president of the USA Triathlon Rocky
Mountain Regional Council. He has more than 15 years of experience in
endurance sports, having been named 2011 USA Triathlon Rocky Mountain
Region sprint-distance champion and a three-time USA Triathlon
All-American. He also produces the Tri Talk Triathlon Podcast, the
leading multisport podcast on iTunes, and he has had articles published
in Triathlete and Inside Triathlon magazines.
Randall L. Wilber is a senior sport physiologist at the U.S.
Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. He has worked with the U.S.
national team in triathlon since 1993, has worked with every U.S.
Olympic team in triathlon since 2000, has been named a member of the
official U.S. Olympic team delegation in three Summer Olympics and three
Winter Olympics, and has provided support for the U.S. team at two Pan
American Games. He has worked with many famous triathletes, including
Hunter Kemper, Barbara Lindquist, Sheila Taormina, Nick Radkewich, Susan
Williams, Laura Bennett, and Matt Charbot. His scientific papers have
appeared in numerous journals. He is the author of two books, Altitude
Training and Athletic Performance and Exercise-Induced Asthma:
Pathophysiology and Treatment. He has been an invited speaker at
several USA Triathlon coaching clinics as well as International
Triathlon Union-sponsored conferences. Wilber is a fellow of the
American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and has served on the ACSM
Olympic and Paralympic Sports Medicine Issues Committee since 2005. He
was named chair of that committee in 2009.