How much running and how much overall exercise training should you be doing to prepare yourself for ultra-marathons or other major endurance adventures?
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If you only have one training pace, this should be it.
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SLEEP! Amy Bender, PhD discusses the why and how of sleep for endurance athletes.
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Mileage is the most important factor in your training, after consistency, no matter your goals.
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Iñigo Mujika, PhD is back to talk with us about strength training.
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Iñigo Mujika (PhD) has coached numerous Olympians, national teams, and is recognized as one of the top triathlon (swimming, cycling, and running) coaches in the world.
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This method fits events to your body rather than bending your body to fit events. It’s the only approach that will provide a lifetime of healthy and sustainable running progress.
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Our goal is never to get good at suffering. Our goal is to suffer less under the same conditions, not to make running easier but to run with greater ease.
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Rest days are a staple of most running programs. But are they needed. In this episode we reframe our view of exercise, rest, and recovery time to help you make clearer decisions about when you exercise.
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What is the 'long run'; can it be too short; can it be too long? Today we simplify and demystify this enigmatic workout.
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Downhill running is all about skill, not strength. Deliberate practice is essential.
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To extend stamina, you may want to run comfortably hard intervals - the topic of today's episode.
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Today, we take a closer look at focus, which is the first of our core features of a high performance mindset. From focus with mindfulness, you can develop the other features of a high performance mindset: calm, confidence, optimism, and trust.
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If you’re going to do something that’s difficult, like running ultra-marathons, it’s important to have a strategy. Inside of that strategy you have to develop and refine skills through deliberate practice. Train your mind, just like you train your body. In this installment, we create an overview of training the mind.
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Running economy is one of the three key features in performance, along with endurance and stamina. You can develop your running economy through heavy resistance training, sprints, and volume. This episode is a crash course in how do it right.
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When we train our body for ultra-marathons, we’re developing endurance and economy so that we can bring those together for stamina.
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As we begin to dissect the three domains of training - mind, body, craft - start by answer Why and What. Then we can get to How we train.
Your answers are unique to you. This episode will give you definitions and guidance on answering Why and What for yourself.
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