E33 | Emma Twigg
Episode summary | Emma Twigg
We talk to New Zealand Rowing Team legend Emma Twigg - Athlete about the line between high performance training and bullying, why she retired from rowing - and why she came back, sexuality and sport, her roller-blading obsession, training with her rowing heroes, cycling home from Switzerland, becoming a real-estate agent and we compare Seamus and Emma’s times on the rowing machine.
Show notes | Emma Twigg
2.07 Thoughts on the Poppels Bryggeri New England IPA, drug testers, and how Seamus and Steve know Emma
5.37 23 years of incorrect hair care
8.34 An obsession with roller blades and a Winter Olympics dream
10.58 The fire for rowing reignited at the Winter Olympic Games during a stint working for the IOC
13.15 Using the platform of being an athlete and a role model to address LGBQT issues
20.30 From a novice rower in Napier to qualifying for the Olympic Games in Beijing in six years
28.08 ERG chat – Seamus and Emma go head-to-head on their rowing machine prowess
37.52 Back in the boat: Training as a rower, how to get rid of calluses on your hands, the 2008 Olympics, getting better with age and is going back to an under 23 world champs a dick move?
43.30 Twigg version 2020: in the best shape of her life and reflecting back on the fourth places of 2012 and 2016
49.11 The favourite Olympics so far and a few stories from Emma’s three campaigns
56.04 2014 to 2016: Becoming World Champion, leaving the Rowing NZ programme, starting a FIFA Masters in Europe, qualifying for Rio de Janeiro in 2016 at the “Regatta of Death”, and coming back into the centralised programme
1.03.38 Juggling training as an elite athlete while studying for the FIFA Masters
1.08.57 Twigg talks about the pressures of high performance environments, building resilience, mentality and experiences with Dick Tonks
1.20.14 Getting the best out of Emma Twigg, her ‘team of experts’, the elite athlete community in Cambridge and idolising the Evers-Swindell twins
1.27.22 Twigg and endurance sport: New York Marathon, climbing Mt Kilimanjaro, half ironman and ironman
1.31.02 The Long Way Home (or the short way home for Twigg)
1.36.51 Meeting and marrying Charlotte: 46km first date, wedding dresses, rings and coin tosses
1.40.11 Always having an eye on life after rowing: ANZ, degree, Masters, real estate, Shimano mechanic, boatmaster
1.44.05 Bits and pieces: golf at the Steven Adams Invitational, Cultivate Group, Dulux paints, “The Big Cat” and Priscilla Duncan’s biceps
