PPP Episode 43: Coaching Session #1 with Dr Brendan O’Neill

In this episode of the Peak Paddle Performance Podcast, I reconnect with Dr Brendan O’Neill creator of the Vaaka Cadence Sensor. In 2019 Brendan graciously put together a 14 week cadence based training plan to prepare an intermediate level paddler for racing the 14 mile Gorge Downwind Champs. COVID disrupted everything, and I never got around to publishing the plan as I originally intended. In 2021 I was planning to be back at the Gorge and so dusted off the plan, and loosely followed it. I had great results, so in 2022 I used it again, at around a 65% adherence. In 2022, at the age of 48 and after 15 years of paddling, I set several personal records. This made me a believer in the methods and approach that Brendan outlined, and I thought it would be a disservice not to share his detailed knowledge with the paddling community. This is the first of a few coaching sessions that I’ll record with Brendan. You can click the link below to download the training plan and tweak it for your needs. The plan is a great start, but it is not a replacement for working with a coach. I highly recommend finding a coach if you want to take your paddling to the next level. This year I’m hoping to follow the plan 100% and am super excited to see what kind of results I can achieve Gorge-downwind-program-2023 Download

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PPP Episode 43: Coaching Session #1 with Dr Brendan O’Neill is an episode from Peak Paddle Performance Podcast by Nick Murray.

This episode is 1:34:11 long.

This episode was published on Apr 7, 2023.

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