Inside The Big Ring: The Podcast for Endurance Athletes Steven Brandes

Learn more about Kristen here!
 
Clear Path Counseling and Wellness: https://www.clearpathmadison.com/
 
Mental Edge Racing: https://www.mentaledgeracing.com/
 
Kristen Radtke is a Licensed Professional Counselor, High Performance Coach, and competitive triathlete dedicated to holistic, body-centered psychotherapy and high performance for sport, work, and life. Kristen owns and directs two practices in Madison, Wisconsin: Clear Path Counseling and Wellness and Mental Edge Racing. In both practices, she focuses on helping people optimize their mind-body connection to promote healing and personal change. As a therapist at Clear Path, Kristen specializes in treating trauma, attachment disturbance, mood disorders, and relationship dynamic issues. In her work with endurance sport athletes at Mental Edge Racing, Kristen trains individuals, groups, and teams in psychophysical techniques to optimize performance. In both her clinical practice and her athletic coaching, Kristen frequently employs meditation and mindfulness techniques to help clients accept and skillfully work with whatever arises in their minds, bodies, and lives.
 
Trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Zen Meditation, and Athletic Performance Enhancement, Kristen’s passion lies in helping people develop insight into the complex interplay of their psychological, emotional, and physical systems. Kristen believes the development of embodied insight to be a crucial aspect of any discipline or craft.
 
Both Clear Path Counseling and Wellness and Mental Edge Racing frequently host workshops, training clinics and retreats in the United States and Europe. 
 
In addition to private sessions for individuals, couples and families, Kristen offers therapeutic movement classes, group psychotherapy, and meditation retreats. She works with public and private organizations, community agencies, colleges, and universities to deliver customized wellness programs, and seminars. As a consultant for mental health providers, Kristen conducts supervision, intake evaluation research, level of care assessments, and program efficacy research. 

In this podcast, we talk about 3 of my athletes and the training they did that went into their podium performances!
 
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The amazing Kristen Yax joins us and talks through alot of wonderful topics!
1) Zwift Tri Academy Team
2) Switching Coaches to Mirinda "Rinnny" Carfrae
3) Changes in Training
4) Winning IRONMAN California and 70.3 Oregon 
5) How to continue when you've accomplished so much

In this episode we go through questions in a rapid fire! Thank you for sending in the questions, if you have more please send them to 
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Deep dive into coaching topics!
1) Coming off of a big running injury, what did we change to allow this athlete to run 2 personal bests in the 5k and training!
2) As we age, how should we adjust training to accompany this? In this topic, we had a hard conversation on how we train, turning one's idtenity around, and what are metrics we use to gauge progress.
3) Is Zwift Racing helpful for triathletes? If so, how do you structure it into the training program?
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www.madisonmultisport.com
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This was a fun conversation with legendary guest Coach Liz comes back on the podcast for the 3rd time to talk all things triathlon racing and coaching. 
1)How do you develop someone to push harder
2) Thoughts on the IRONMAN and t100 series
3) Olympics
4) Will Gwen make the Olympic Team
5) What is needed to race well
6) What do athletes get wrong about coaching
7) What do coaches get wrong about coaching
https://www.instagram.com/liz.waterstraat/?hl=en
https://multisportmastery.com/
Great conversation
Great topics