Greg Bennett

Before any intense workout, I make sure to have no food in my digestive system by having my last meal two to three hours before, and only drinking an espresso coffee if necessary.
 
Transcript: "My suggestion for a go to work out. I think I would not eat at all. I don't if I'm gonna do something really intense. I don't want my digestive system to feel full or or any I like to be hungry. And so I probably make sure I'd eat two to three hours before. If it was in the afternoon the workout, but in the mornings, otherwise, I just have an espresso coffee. Maybe something very, very light, but generally just the espresso coffee would do. And And that's it. And it doesn't matter. Whether I'm swimming biking running doing gym or whatever. I prefer to stay alert and not have anything in my digestive system. Just"

My role models are my family, mentors, financial advisors, tech and business professionals, coaches, athletes, and the people I interview on my podcast.
 
Transcript: "Hi, Jamie, I'm not sure. I really have one role model. In fact, I think I have numerous numerous people that in my life that have modeled me to be the man. I am today. And I like surrounding myself with people that are doing remarkable things. Part of the reason. I have the Greg Bennett Show podcast is every week. I get to have a conversation with just an extraordinary person and I get to learn so much from them. And I hope I hitting the record button in these conversations. We all get to sort of Get a little bit from from these people that I get to have these conversations with. I also surround myself with mentors. I have, you know, Finance Mentor that's really helped me. Understand that I have actually Ed Baker, who's the founder and CEO of any question. He's really been a great mentor for me in the sense of understanding Tech and the business and helping me grow into this business and it's just been absolutely fantastic. If I look at my sporting career. I've surrounded by some of the greatest coaches, the greatest athletes body work. People all great role models that helped shape me, but then if I really want to rewind the clock a bit, it's really have to look at my family. Obviously, my brother's remarkable men and then my parents, my mom and dad the ultimate Role Models. What it's like, you know, my dad. If I think about being a great father a good man, no one better my brother's like I said and my mum in terms of just a great spirit. It's they definitely have shaped me into what I am today, chess."

To improve for free, stay consistent with your training every day, visualize yourself doing the activity well, eat well, prioritize sleep and drink lots of water. Spend some money on a good bike fit, decent running shoes, and an affordable wetsuit if you plan to swim.
 
Transcript: "Hey, Peter, Well, in terms of free things your training. I think you can stay consistent every day. Don't do one massive workout. And then a couple of days off just try and stay consistently doing something every single day. I think you'll find that to be enormous for your improvement. Curve. The other one. I would say more on the mental. Emotional side is visualizing, really spend some time. Seeing yourself do the activity over. Over again and see yourself doing it really well. Spend some time really visualizing. I think you'll find that. That's really empowering. They both free obviously eating. Well, not necessarily free. But if you have a choice, do the best you can to, to eat, well, sleep obviously, prioritize that get the best sleep, you can and drink a lot of water stay hydrated. So they're all things that you can do that are somewhat free obviously eating well is Not free, but if you have a choice, I would really focus on that then things that you might want to buy. I would say, like things aerodynamically. I wouldn't stress about the bike frame too much. I choose a helmet and we'll choice is probably more into in terms of aerodynamics, decent running shoes, but make sure they fit well. And that goes for the bike to actually make sure the bike really fits. Well, so probably worth spending bit of money to get the right bike fit and and you might want to Do that sort of every six months and then running shoes, maybe Orthotics or at least looking at you by biomechanics to make sure you get the right pair of running shoes. So you can stay consistent, things like a reasonable wetsuit, for wetsuit swims, it's expensive. But if you can find one, that's not too expensive, maybe talk to the professionals out there that seem to get given loads of wetsuits and see if they'll sell you any cheap. And I don't have any anymore. That's about it. Mate. I'm just off the top of my head. There's some of the things you can do to find some speed. Cheers, mate."

I would do a long ride in the mountains of Colorado of 180-220 km, followed by a time trial of 90 km, swim squad of 3-4 km, and finish with a run of 25 km. It was a very long day but I got used to it as part of my Ironman training.
 
Transcript: "Biggest Training Day of My Life. Well, maybe not the hardest but probably the longest day of my life was I would do this every Thursday when I was trying to get ready for Ironman. And I think I overtrained and that was generally on a Wednesday. We would have done a long ride in the mountains of Colorado 180 to 220 km on the bike. Then the Thursday I get up usually and run. And km warm up very early. It would be dark then jump on the bike warm up for about 2 to 3 kilometers. But literally, it was almost straight out the door time trial, 90 kilometers and have about 5 km cool down. Make it home in time to go to the 11 a.m. Swim Squad. At Scott Carpenter and swim between three and a half and four kilometers have a quick lunch at Whole Foods. And then make my way up to the Switzerland Trail and run that Loop up there, which I think was around about 25 kilometers. Do that reasonably well, and that would be the day but it would end up being a pretty significant day in itself. But I always overtrained cheers."

The recent events of performance enhancing drugs in triathlon have been met with outrage and disappointment from the sporting community, and rightfully so. Professional athletes have a responsibility to be clean and honest, and testing needs to be more thorough to ensure cheats are caught out. Healthy skepticism is also necessary when something looks too good to be true.
 
Transcript: "What are my thoughts about the recent events of performance enhancing drugs in triathlon? Wow. Well, let's be specific. Colin Chartier of the US was recently caught for taking EPO, and he admitted to taking EPO to enhance his performances. I don't know that he's admitted everything yet. And Colin, I think you might want to re-look at everything. But I think there's still more to come. In terms of what I've seen, the backlash from the sport has been spot on. From his peers in the triathlon community, everybody's hurt, they're outraged, they're disappointed. And fair enough. As a fan of the sport, and somebody that did the sport for his entire life, I was tremendously disappointed. I truly believe, I genuinely believe, our sport is very, very clean. I really do. As an athlete, there was a professional athlete for 27 years, I never not once saw any drugs, I was never offered any drugs, I wouldn't have known how to get any drugs. It was a very clean sport for me. And so the idea that performance enhancing drugs come into the sport, I don't even understand it. But look, I also have a healthy skepticism in the sport. When you see something, when you see a performance that's beyond what you've seen before from that athlete, that's significantly beyond. Or when you see a performance in the world of triathlon that just blows your mind. I think it's okay to have a healthy skepticism. And I think if the drug testers want to get this right, and they want to get the cheats out of here, they need to talk to the athletes. Talk to the athletes, who should we be drug testing? As an athlete, you know. I could have told you a couple of people during my time that I was pretty certain were doing something. But they weren't tested, or whatever. And I think we have that in our sport now. I'm sure there's a few. And I'm sure you're listening to me and you even know who the few are. It's okay to have a little bit of healthy skepticism."

If I had to travel, I would probably pick running over biking, but if it's local, I would choose biking.
 
Transcript: "That's an easy one Peter. I think the bike for me. I feel like I could probably fake the bike pretty well these days still even though I'm not very fit compared to five, six, seven years ago. I think, although I would, if I had to travel anywhere, I wouldn't want to do the bike ride because I don't have to travel with my bike. So I probably picked the run or maybe the swim. But yeah, if I had to travel probably the run and if it was local, I do the bite. Cheers, mate."