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GHIT 0094: Trey Shannon on Racing Fitness Improvement

Trey Shannon at work
Trey at Podium Performance Fitness

Trey Shannon from Podium Performance Fitness is our podcast guest for this episode, just in time for the local gym to be freeing up from all the failed New Year’s resolution people.  This is our second annual episode with Trey, and we go over a variety of aspects of improving your fitness to help improve your driving, especially during the off season. 

Trey is located near Charlotte NC and is helping many high-level drivers and teams with their off track preparation both physically and mentally.  Driving improvements will help reduce individual lap times as well as reducing any fatigue related deterioration during extended stints. 

Trey Shannon with student

If you are interested in improving in this area of your driving, please feel free to contact Trey at:  Podium Performance Fitness in Cornelius North Carolina (near Charlotte) or on the website at:
www.PodiumPerformanceFitness.com
and follow them on Instagram and Twitter.

Highlights from this episode include:

  1. Male vs female optimization
  2. Adaptations for racing vs general fitness or other sport specific workouts
  3. Low impact options to increase endurance baselines
  4. How to establish a baseline performance level
  5. Calories and portion control
  6. Race day caloric demands
  7. Fitness/Working out is the tool to improve performance and your food intake is your tool to gain or lose weight
  8. We cover several of the popular exercise and weight loss strategies
  9. The difference between the Rock and the Pebble
  10. Vicki is a strong proponent of raspberries stuffed with chocolate
  11. “Cauliflower if just broccoli without a tan”
  12. Bill’s Slurpee addiction comes to light, again
  13. A story starts with “I saw this video on YouTube…..”
  14. Left arm preacher curls for driving down the strip or boardwalk
  15. Non gym options for exercising at home
  16. HIIT – High Intensity Interval Training
  17. Visual performance improvement techniques for racing improvement
  18. Vestibular system and its potential to reduce motion sickness
  19. Brock String
  20. Alan has a new mantra, same as the old mantra

This week’s Dominating With Dawson segment discusses some of the differences between racing on fast turns and slow turns.

Best regards,

Bill, Vicki, Jennifer, and Alan
Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast

and team members in the GHiT
Immature Endurance Racing Team

GHIT 0094: Trey Shannon on Racing Fitness Improvement

GHIT 0083: Our 2019 Review and 2020 Goals Episode

On this episode, Vicki, Jennifer, Alan, Kate and Bill went over our 2019 season and our 2020 goals.  Are we on the same page?  Do we even belong in the same book?  Listen in and find out.  Some of it was news to us, lol. 

Areas covered included:

2019 Review:

1)  How did our Team’s 2019 go in your opinion, Highlight and Low-light
2)  How did your personal season go?  Highlight and Low-light
3)  Things you want to keep the same/similar and Things we need to change or improve
4)  Biggest team weakness or missing need
5) Best Race or HPDE and Worst Race or HPDE
6)  Our traditional Good, Bad, and the Ugly

2020 Goals:

1)  What race goals do you have For you, For the team, For cars
2)  Personal, Non-driving/racing goals
3)  What driving/HPDE goals do you have, Any tracks or races interested in for 2020
4)  Any additions to our team in terms of People, Tools, Training, Paddock, Cars,
5)  Roles/Responsibilities, and Team talents missing/needed
6)  What would define a successful year? For you and for our team
7)  What would you say to the other members of our team

We try to do this every year and would recommend it to you and your team. 

Bill’s inner planner sometimes takes over. 

Best regards,

Bill, Vicki, Jen, Kate, and Alan

Hosts of the Garage Heroes In Training podcast
and team members in the GHiT
Immature Endurance Racing Team

GHIT 0083: Our 2019 Review and 2020 Goals Episode

GHIT: Physical Fitness for Faster and Safer Racing

Special Guest Trey Shannon of Performance Podium Fitness

Trey Shannon

Racing is both physically and mentally challenging, even at the beginner and intermediate levels.  For this week’s episode, we were very proud to have Trey Shannon as a guest.  Trey is located near Charlotte NC and is helping many high level drivers and teams with their off track preparation both physically and mentally.  The discussion will go over many areas that you can focus on and improve not only your best lap time, but also improve your consistency over many laps.  The degradation due to fatigue can lead to not only slower laps, but also the demands can lead to loss of focus and increase the likelihood of driver errors and potential damage to the car and driver(s).  

During this episode we discuss:

  1. Physical preparation
    1. Anaerobic and Aerobics
  2. Mental Preparation and acuity
  3. Cardiovascular fitness
    1. Diaphragm vs chest/shoulder breathing
  4. Breathing exercises and breathe control
  5. On track relaxation strategies and techniques
  6. Neck, Shoulders, Hands and Core Stability
  7. Eye exercises and hand eye coordination
  8. Sleep
  9. Diet and Nutrition, especially on race day and race weekend
  10. Hydration
  11. Off season preparation, Pre-race, at the race, during the race, and post-race options
  12. Training periodization and improving well rounded fitness for all aspects of life
  13. Cramping and cramp prevention
  14. Heat and Cold management strategies
  15. Outdoor training ideas and options
  16. Improving proprioception and other driver “feel” capabilities during the race
  17. Pre-race warmup techniques to get you in the zone in the first few seconds behind the wheel
  18. Cognitive ability degradation with fatigue is easily quantifiable and very significant

This is critical when you are looking to compete in an endurance type of racing where the ability to be at or near your fastest consistently could dramatically improve your overall performance by many TEN’s (10’s) of seconds, not just the usual TENTH’s (0.1’s) everyone pursues.  It not only affects your overall speed, but the quality of the decisions and skills on the track, especially over time. 

If you are interested in improving in this area of your driving, please feel free to contact Trey at: 

Podium Performance Fitness

Podium Performance Fitness in Cornelius North Carolina (near Charlotte) or on the website at PodiumPerformanceFitness.com and follow them on Instagram and Twitter.

GHIT: Physical Fitness for Faster and Safer Racing