{"id":16616,"date":"2023-03-13T14:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T21:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/?p=16616"},"modified":"2025-06-19T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T10:40:10","slug":"working-triathlete-podcast-mental-margin-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/working-triathlete-podcast-mental-margin-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Triathlete Podcast: Mental Margin Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-working-triathlete-podcast\/id1506266194?i=1000603972307\">recently interviewed by WorkingTriathlete.com<\/a>, one of the leading triathlon coaching programs in the U.S., to discuss my newly developed concept of &#8220;mental marginal gain.&#8221; Over the course of about one hour, my hosts, Conrad Goeringer and Derek Stone, and I talk about how the mind can be leveraged more effectively to produce meaningful marginal gains in triathlon, other sports, and life.<\/p>\n<p>Marginal gains is one of the most used terms in cycling and triathlon (and gaining traction in the greater sports world). It is generally defined as: &#8220;small improvements that can lead to significant gains in performance.&#8221; Triathletes tend to think of marginal gains in terms of equipment, whether a fast wetsuit, aero wheels, or carbon-plated running shoes.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, marginal gains also apply to mental training. I can&#8217;t guaranteed that you will go 20% faster if you do mental training (I think I&#8217;m pretty good at what I do, but I&#8217;m no magician!), but I will say with confidence that using the &#8220;mind hacks&#8221; I describe in this podcast will enable you to get more out of your training, maximize your race-day preparations, and allow you to give your best effort in your race.<\/p>\n<p>To listen, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-working-triathlete-podcast\/id1506266194?i=1000603972307\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently interviewed by WorkingTriathlete.com, one of the leading triathlon coaching programs in the U.S., to discuss my newly developed concept of &#8220;mental marginal gain.&#8221; Over the course of about one hour, my hosts, Conrad Goeringer and Derek Stone, and I talk about how the mind can be leveraged more effectively to produce meaningful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1770,1516,1517,1555,1557],"tags":[1458,394,1459,155,1274,1460,1035,1039],"class_list":["post-16616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling","category-ski-racing","category-sports","category-tennis","category-triathlon","tag-bike","tag-mental-training","tag-run","tag-sport-psychology","tag-sports-performance","tag-swim","tag-triathlete","tag-triathlon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18612,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16616\/revisions\/18612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}