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This webinar will discuss the new tools that have been recently developed, in order to most accurately assess an athlete's mental fitness. We will discuss how to assess present mental fitness and whether or not mental compensatory measures are being used effectively. Webinar attendees will further appreciate and understand the use of imaging and scripts, in measuring and enhancing mental fitness, in athletes. Lastly, how to interpret and use these tools to inform future training/racing, both physically and mentally, will be considered.

What You Will Learn:

(1) Which tools are presently available to measure current mental fitness, (2) how to use these tools in order to accurately assess current mental fitness, (3) the roles that imaging and scripts play on race day, and in training situations, to create mental fitness, and (4) how all of these tie together to measure and enhance overall mental fitness.

About the Presenter:

Jesse Kropelnicki is an elite/pro level triathlon coach who founded the QT2 Systems brand of endurance preparation businesses, including OutRival Racing, The Core Diet, The Run Formula, and QT2 Systems. He is the triathlon coach for many professional athletes including Linsey Corbin and Pedro Gomes, among others. His interests are in coaching professional triathletes using quantitative training and nutrition protocols. He is a USAT Level III Certified Coach and author of the book “The Endurance Training Diet & Cookbook: The How, When, and What for Fueling Runners and Triathletes to Improve Performance”.

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This webinar will introduce the 13 core principles of the QT2 training protocol and the key fundamentals behind our training methodology. Topics covered include:

Take The Easy Days EasyDescend EverythingUse a Recovery DrinkNever, Ever, Bonk

About the Presenter: 
Tim Snow is the Training Services Director, and Coach with QT2 Systems, as well as a former PRO/Elite triathlete. Tim has been racing since 1998, across many distances and types of endurance sports. He coaches top-level triathletes, through QT2's 1-1 Coaching service, and manages the day-to-day operations of the training side of the LLC.

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This webinar will provide an in-depth look at the practical application of the tools of mental fitness. Mental fitness plays an integral role in athletes meeting their true physical potential in both training and racing. Develop an understanding of the tools available to both, assess and improve mental fitness, within QT2's dynamic Member Area. Join us!

What You Will Learn:
(1) A brief overview of mental fitness, and the role that it plays in athletic performance. (2) The tools that are available to assess mental fitness. (3) The tools that are available to help improve mental fitness. (4) How to fully utilize the Mental Fitness Area, within QT2's Member Area.

About the Presenter:
Tara Rasch is a QT2 triathlon coach with QT2 Systems. She focuses on helping her athletes to reach consistency and their true potential in training and racing, utilizing QT2's proven training, racing, pacing, and fueling protocols.

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This webinar will discuss how to develop and identify mental toughness. Often considered to be something displayed on race day, it is actually built during the grind of day-to-day training. What does it look like? How do we get it? Join us! What You Will Learn: (1) An in-depth look at mental toughness. What it is, and what it is not. (2) When, and how, mental toughness is developed. (3) Why mental toughness is important in training and racing.

About the Presenter:
Former Coach, Caitlin Snow is a QT2 Systems Level 3 Coach and Professional triathlete, specializing in the 70.3 and Ironman distances. Caitlin is the 2008 Ironman Lake Placid Champion, and four time top-10 finisher at the Ironman World Championship.

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Confidence makes some athletes, and breaks others. Join this webinar to hear about PRO triathlete Beth Shutt's journey through self-doubt, towards confidence, and how it has changed her outlook on training, racing, and life. Join us!

What You Will Learn:
(1) The nature of confidence, and its effects on athletic and personal performance. (2) Self-doubt and the role it plays in confidence. (3) Strategies for overcoming self-doubt. (4) How relieving self-doubt can lead to greater confidence.

About the Presenter:
Beth Peterson is a USAT Level I and QT2 Systems Level 2 Triathlon Coach.

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Life is stressful. Training for triathlon, by its very nature, is stressful. Managine these two accounts, and keeping our overall budget in the black, is a difficult but vital task. Join us to discuss this often overlooked component of everyday life and triathlon training. What You Will Learn: (1) The different components of, both, good and bad stress. (2) How these stresses manifest in our everyday lives. (3) How these stresses manifest in our triathlon lives. (4) Ways to help to manage these stresses, both good and bad, our everyday lives, and our triathlon lives in an effort to maintain balance.

About the Presenter:
Former Coach, Caitlin Snow is a QT2 Systems Level 3 Coach and Professional triathlete, specializing in the 70.3 and Ironman distances. Caitlin is the 2008 Ironman Lake Placid Champion, and four time top-10 finisher at the Ironman World Championship.

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You had few race builds where you followed your triathlon training program, CRUSHED your training goals, had a great taper, recovered well, nutrition was nailed, but when race day came, you fell apart. What happened? Most us us think we have crossed our T’s and dotted our i’s for training and race prep, but have we? Maximizing athletic performance in triathlon is much more than swimming, biking and running. A forth discipline, called mental training, must be trained on a consistent basis alongside the physical training. Join us in this webinar to learn how to take our performance to the next level with mental training techniques that will prep the mind for a good race day. Join us!

What You Will Learn:
(1) What is mental fitness/training, (2) What is your mental fitness personality type, (3) How can we improve our mental fitness, etc… (4) What are the key mental skills that the US Olympic Committee deems necessary to develop as athletes, (5) How can we develop these areas, (6) The extent of the mental training services that we offer.

About the Presenter:
Amy Javens is a USAT Level 1 and QT2 Level 2 Certified Coach, and has been coaching for QT2 since 2014. She has also been racing triathlon for 12 years, professionally since 2013, and has been coached within the QT2 system for 5 years. As an athlete, Amy has worked with sport psychology to help her with her own training/racing and has used mental training exercises with her athletes to help them achieve success. In addition, her authentic life experiences of being an athlete, coach, educator, and mother, etc… have helped her build mental grit and she strives to help her athletes find theirs. Amy welcomes you to join her, as she hopes to help you find your “mental grit."

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Join us in this second of four webinars in our QT2 Mental Training Skills Development Series! In this webinar, we will discuss the first 3 of 9 Mental Skills that the United States Olympic Committee deems important to maximizing our athletic performance: Goal Setting, Mental Imagery, and Self Talk. This is a “learn by doing” webinar in which we will do exercises aimed at improving our Mental Training Skills and also, begin a Mental Training Log. Join us, in what will be a fun and productive webinar.

What You Will Learn:
(1) What is Mental Fitness/Training, (2) Goal Setting (3) Mental Imagery (4) Improving Self Talk. (5) How to Start a Mental Training Log (6) The Extent of the Mental Training Services That We Offer.

About the Presenter:
Amy Javens is a USAT Level 1 and QT2 Level 2 Certified Coach, and has been coaching for QT2 since 2014. She has also been racing triathlon for 12 years, professionally since 2013, and has been coached within the QT2 system for 5 years. As an athlete, Amy has worked with sport psychology to help her with her own training/racing and has used mental training exercises with her athletes to help them achieve success. In addition, her authentic life experiences of being an athlete, coach, educator, and mother, etc… have helped her build mental grit and she strives to help her athletes find theirs. Amy welcomes you to join her, as she hopes to help you find your “mental grit."

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Join us in this third of four webinars in our QT2 Mental Training Skills Development Series! In this webinar, we will discuss skill 4, 5 and 6 of the 9 Mental Skills that the United States Olympic Committee deems important to maximizing our athletic performance:

Energy managementConcentrationSelf Confidence

About the Presenter:
Amy Javens is a USAT Level 1 and QT2 Level 2 Certified Coach, and has been coaching for QT2 since 2014. She has also been racing triathlon for 12 years, professionally since 2013, and has been coached within the QT2 system for 5 years. As an athlete, Amy has worked with sport psychology to help her with her own training/racing and has used mental training exercises with her athletes to help them achieve success. In addition, her authentic life experiences of being an athlete, coach, educator, and mother, etc… have helped her build mental grit and she strives to help her athletes find theirs. Amy welcomes you to join her, as she hopes to help you find your “mental grit."

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Join us in this final webinar in our QT2 Mental Training Skills Development Series! In this webinar, we will discuss the last 3 of the 9 Mental Skills that the United States Olympic Committee deems important to maximizing our athletic performance: • Mental Preparation • Excelling Under Pressure • Sticking To It 

About the Presenter: 

Amy Javens is a USAT Level 1 and QT2 Level 2 Certified Coach, and has been coaching for QT2 since 2014. She has also been racing triathlon for 12 years, professionally since 2013, and has been coached within the QT2 system for 5 years. As an athlete, Amy has worked with sport psychology to help her with her own training/racing and has used mental training exercises with her athletes to help them achieve success. In addition, her authentic life experiences of being an athlete, coach, educator, and mother, etc… have helped her build mental grit and she strives to help her athletes find theirs. Amy welcomes you to join her, as she hopes to help you find your “mental grit."

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Join us in this webinar given by Dawn English and learn about common athlete limiters and what to look for to determine if you have a hidden weakness, underlying issues of apparent limiters and limiters related to training, fueling, mental fitness, recovery and race execution.

About the Presenter: 
Dawn began coaching in 2018. She joined OutRival Racing in 2014 as their approach aligned with her philosophies and she has been enriched by the network of top coaching and dietician minds. She has coached beginners, experienced, Juniors and Masters Athletes for all distances and has conducted group training sessions and provides individualized training plans. She enjoys customizing plans based on an athlete’s goals, schedule and limiters. She grew up participating in a variety of sports and did her first triathlon in 1999. She continues to race sprint to Ironman distance events, having completed over 80 multisport events and is on the podium for most races she participates.

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We all know that exercise is important for physical health. But what about exercise and the brain? Exercise not only improves mood, but it has widespread and lasting effects on our brain as well. Coach Lenny will discuss how exercise changes the brain, how this influences different aspects of cognition (such as learning, memory and attention) and what we know about the effects of exercise on common issues such as depression and anxiety.

About the Presenter: 
Lenny Ramsey holds a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Washington University in Saint Louis and just started as a senior research associate at UT Health in Texas. She spent the past few years working as an assistant professor in Neurosciences in the Physical Therapy Department of a small liberal arts college - allowing her to dive into the brain-body connection. Lenny picked up triathlon while pursuing her PhD and started racing as a professional athlete in 2017. Midway through the 2018 season, Lenny turned her attention to the full Ironman distance and last seaon she posted two third place finishes. Lenny combines her enthusiasm for triathlon with teaching as a QT2 triathlon coach. She brings her passion for data driven analysis and psychology to each of her athletes to assist them in their or her journey to achieving their personal best.

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In today’s atmosphere of fast and immediate gratification for almost everything that we do, it has become increasingly difficult for athletes to be patient, and trust the athletic evolution to true realization of their potential. During this webinar, coach Jesse will discuss:

*How initial athletic success leads to more pressure.

*How more pressure creates negative influence to progress.

*How social media impacts the athletic development process and the ability to stay patient and happy.

*Strategies to avoid these pitfalls, stay patient, stay happy, and allow the athletic development to continue!

About the Presenter:
Jesse Kropelnicki is an elite/pro level triathlon coach who founded the QT2 Systems brand of endurance preparation businesses, including OutRival Racing, The Core Diet, The Run Formula, and QT2 Systems. He is the triathlon coach for many professional athletes including Linsey Corbin and Pedro Gomes, among others. His interests are in coaching professional triathletes using quantitative training and nutrition protocols. He is a USAT Level III Certified Coach and author of the book “The Endurance Training Diet & Cookbook: The How, When, and What for Fueling Runners and Triathletes to Improve Performance”.

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Whatever your athletic potential is, we’re here to help you find it. For a lot of our athletes, getting to Kona is within their grasp, and we show them how to make it happen. But Kona isn’t the “end all, be all” of triathlon… far from it, actually! In this webinar, Coach Doug will describe how he helps his athletes get to where their body is capable of taking them.

About the Presenter:
Doug MacLean is a USAT Level 2, and QT2 Level 3, triathlon coach. He’s been coaching for QT2 since 2010, and racing since 2011.

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What is you “WHY” and it's significance on training and racing? This webinar will focus on discussing how to find, identify and/or refine the scope of your “WHY” to help push through intense training sessions, and how to incorporate it into your race strategy. Topics will include using your WHY as motivation, how it may calm anxiety, to create a purpose, to help explain to others on social media or in person WHY you are training so hard, mental imagery and other areas of focus that are relevant.

About the Presenter:
Tim Gerry is a QT2 and USAT Level 1 Coach and Certified Yoga Instructor. He is also a Physical Education teacher and coach at the high school level. He has competed in triathlon since 2004 and has, over many years of racing, come to discover his "WHY".