Two questions answered today. Should you put intervals at the beginning or at the end of the workout? Should progression runs be done by effort or pace?
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You can stand on the podium and have failed. And it’s not a failure if you learn from it.
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Trent Stellingwerff has been in the trenches of nutritional support and body composition in supporting athletes of all abilities for many years. Today, we talk through critical new insights that can apply to your training.
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David Bishop is a world-leader on the effects of training on mitochondria. Today was go at that topic from many angles including the benefits of twice-per-day workouts!
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Andy Jones is one of the world's leading experts in human performance physiology. He’s pioneered the field of nitrates (e.g., beetroot juice) for endurance performance and helped to redefine our understanding of the upper limits of sustainable metabolism.
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Carbohydrate intake strategies for optimal training adaptations with Drs. James Morton & Julien Louis.
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I talk with John Kiely and Craig Pickering about whether genetic testing can be used to predict athletic potential or inform exercise training. We go on to discuss mindset and the placebo effect.
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Cramping isn't well understood. But here's what we know right now.
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A massive how and what on traveling, including cameo appearances from numerous elite ultra runners.
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How valid is the common belief that a specific workout produces a specific stimulus?
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Marlene Giandolini, PhD and Sebastien Pavailler, PhD are biomechanists who work for Salomon. Today, they bring us insights from their research and the applied intersection of biomechanics, trail running, and shoe design. We discuss everything from trail runner kinematics to shoe drop to foot swelling. So much valuable and new information in this one!
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Gianluca Vernillo, PhD is one of the world's leading scientists studying mountain ultra trail runners. Today he brings a vast amount of science and practical insight from his years of studying the uphill, downhill, and other physiologic features of extreme endurance running in the world's toughest mountain courses.
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The structures that transmit force from muscle cells to bone are critical components of your running health and economy in addition to a common site of injury. Today we learn all about tendons and sinews from the world's leading expert on this topic.
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A deep scientific discussion of the concept of critical power/critical speed as the 'fatigue threshold' with an emphasis on how it may apply to ultra-endurance training and performance.
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A thought-provoking analysis of training dogma, practices, and approaches from one of the world's leading experts on program development.
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Legendary exercise geneticist Claude Bouchard, PhD joined me for a pragmatic discussion.
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Everything you need to know about the fundamentals of biomechanics as they relate to injury in runners. Lots of actionable info in this one!
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My guest today was, Rodger Kram PhD, a leading scientist in the field of biomechanics with research foci in: (1) Partitioning of the rate of metabolic energy expenditure into its biomechanical constituents; AND (2) The influences of internal and external forces on the way humans and other animals walk and run. His group developed the force sensing treadmill and they have generated novel insight into many of the factors important to ultra runners, especially the biomechanics, energetics, and neural control of walking and running. He joined us from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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