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At Hopper Sports Performance, we blend science and tradition to provide bespoke coaching solutions for endurance athletes, ensuring high performance through data-informed strategies tailored to individual needs.
About Hopper Sports Performance
About Daniel Hopper
My passion for endurance sports started at the young age of 9, when I started competing in athletics, continuing on to cycling at age 12. It was around this time that I first fell in love with triathlon and multisport thanks to the original F1 series. Over the years I competed at a both State and National level in these sports before making the transition into Multisport in 2012, with my primary focus on long course duathlon.
Over my time of both racing cycling and multisport at high levels, I had to learn to balance the demands of working a full time job that had an every changing schedule with training for these races. There was some out of the box thinking that was required to make this happen. This was only possible thanks to the help of some very experienced coaches, which I was able to learn a great deal from.
Since 2017 I have been focusing more on the coaching and athlete performance side of the sport with the aim of passing on what I have learnt from the coaches I have worked with over the years. I spend a large amount of time studying both coaching and the sport science side of endurance sports to provide the best possible service the clients I work with.
Coaching
Athletic
Over 25 years experience as an endurance sports athlete
Experience in cycling across road, track and mountain bike disciplines.
Experience in distance running across road, track and cross country disciplines.
2x Ironman Finisher
6x member Aus Triathlon World champions Age Group Team
2x Top 5 Powerman Zofingen Finishes (3rd place 20-24 A/G 2012)
1st 2018 Mount Martha Sufferfest Duathlon
1:24.30 Half Marathon PB. (Run Melbourne 2012)
Multiple National Cycling Championship appearances.
Multiple NRS cycling stage race appearances.
Over 15 years coaching experience across cycling, athletics and multisport
UESCA Certified Cycling Coach
UESCA Certified Ultra Running Coach
Endure IQ LDT 102
Stryd Power Running Coach
Former INSCYD metabolic testing provider
INSCYD Lactate Testing Course
INSCYD Power-Performance Decoder Course
TrainingPeaks University 2017
TrainingPeaks “Fundamental Physics of Cycling” course
TodaysPlan Coaches Webinar Certificate course
Support staff for a number of Australia’s top cycling teams
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