Professor John Hawley is one of the world's leading researchers on the cellular and molecular basis of endurance sports adaptations within skeletal muscle. Additionally, his area of expertise covers the interaction of exercise and diet, and practical implications of this such as "train low" (with low carbohydrate availability) strategies to improve performance.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The adaptations in response to endurance training that take place in skeletal muscle
-Using nutritional interventions to enhance adaptations: the "train low" strategy
-Fiber types (fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers) and how muscle fiber profile may influence training strategies
-The relative importance of musculoskeletal (peripheral) adaptations vs. cardiovascular (central) adaptations for endurance athletes
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Mark Pearce is a triathlon coach with a strong background in physiology and sports science, including working as the physiologist of the British Triathlon Olympic team from 2002 until 2010. He has been to three Olympics (2004, 2008 and 2012) as physiologist and coach, and brings a wealth of experience from high performance sports, that he now applies to both professional and age-group triathletes in his coaching practice.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Mark's coaching principles
-Interval training
-Periodisation
-Heat adaptation
-Training intensity distribution
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Marcel Wouda is a swim and open water swimming coach from the Netherlands, who has coached and worked with multiple Olympic gold medalists, including the 2008 and 2016 (men's and women's) Olympic open water champions Maarten van der Weijden, Ferry Weertman, and Sharon van Rouwendaal.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Marcel's open water swim coaching philosophy
-The specific demands of open water swim races, and training to meet those demands
-Example training weeks and key workouts for open water swimmers
-Periodisation
-Performance testing
-Dryland training
-Swim toys, gadgets and technology
-Advice for triathletes on improving their open water swimming
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Eirik Myhr Nossum is head coach of the Norwegian cross-country skiing national team. In this interview we discuss his training and coaching philosophy for cross-country skiing and generally for endurance training, and how it applies to elite and amateur endurance athletes, respectively.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Eirik's general training and coaching philosophy
-The training of world-class cross-country skiers
-Polarised training and training volume
-Interval and threshold training
-Periodisation
-Performance testing
-Advice for age-group endurance athletes
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Michael Rosenblat is a Canadian researcher working towards his PhD. In this interview we discuss one of his main research papers: a meta-analysis and systematic review comparing polarised training and threshold training in endurance sports. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -How polarised training and threshold training are defined in the scientific literature, and common misconceptions around this -The scientific evidence available comparing these training models -Why polarised training may work better than threshold training for endurance athletes -Just how polarised (high vs. moderate intensity) should polarised training be? -How strictly should athletes and coaches follow "hard numbers" in their training intensity distribution (between low, moderate, and high intensity)
Michael Rosenblat is a Canadian researcher working towards his PhD. In this interview we discuss one of his main research papers: a meta-analysis and systematic review all about interval training.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Long, medium, and short High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) compared with Sprint Interval Training (SIT)
-The scientific evidence available for trying to find the "optimal" type of interval training
-Why Long HIIT may have certain advantages over other types of HIIT as well as SIT
-Should athletes try to optimise (find the one best workout) or mix things up to get the best of all worlds?
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Hugo van den Broek is an elite running coach based in Kenya, with a professional running background himself and a 2:12 personal best for the marathon. In this interview, he discusses his training and coaching philosophy for distance running.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The mental aspects of running and endurance sports
-Training volume and training intensity distribution
-Periodisation
-Threshold training
-Training monitoring
-Differences between fast-twitch and slow-twitch dominant athletes
-Training for time-crunched athletes
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Izzy Moore, PhD, is a researcher specialising in running biomechanics, economy, and injuries. In this interview, we discuss her research in these areas and the implications of her findings for triathletes and runners.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Running biomechanics, self-optimisation, and gait analysis
-Wearables and running biomechanics metrics
-Running economy: what factors impact it, and how can you improve it?
-Injury risk and prevention
-Footwear, and the impact on biomechanics, economy, and injury risk
-Training load quantification
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Scott DeFilippis and Carrie Lester are both professional triathletes and coaches. They are also partners, and Scott coaches Carrie. In this interview we discuss a number of training-related topics, the overarching training philosophy of the couple, and the experiences and influences that led to this philosophy. We also discuss how age-groupers should apply these concepts.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Scott's and Carrie's athletic and coaching careers and backgrounds
-Being coached and mentored by Brett Sutton of TriSutto
-The influence of Gerry Rodrigues on their swim training
-Scott's and Carries coach-athlete relationship and process
-A normal training week and changes to the norm during Covid-19
-Differences between males and females in training and training tolerance
-Advice for age-groupers
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Nick Tiller, PhD, is a postdoc in exercise physiology and respiratory medicine, at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. In addition to his academic pursuits, he writes about science, health, exercise, critical-thinking, philosophy, and ultra-marathoning, and is an ultra-marathoner and endurance athlete himself. He is the author of "The Skeptic's Guide to Sports Science: Confronting Myths of the Health and Fitness Industry".
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-The sports, health, and fitness industry, money and marketing, and the prevalence of unsubstantiated claims
-Examples of hyped-up or straight out snake-oil products in the industry
-How to be a critical thinker and protect yourself from falling prey to false marketing claims
-Understanding critical thinking: Cognitive biases and logical fallacies
-Understanding science: the concepts of scientific consensus, statistical significance, and meaningful effect/effect size
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https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts239/
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Sebastian Weber is a sports scientist, coach of world class cyclists and endurance athletes, and consultant of multiple world class cycling teams and other endurance sports organisations and federations. He is also the co-founder of the physiological performance software INSCYD. In this two-part interview we discuss recent updates to the INSCYD platform and go deep into physiology and training concepts relevant for optimising endurance performance.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Block periodisation vs. mixing different types of training
-Time-course of adaptations for VO2max and VLaMax
-The challenges of increasing VLaMax
-Potential issues of high-intensity training when your VLaMax is low
-Differences between VLaMax and VLaMax training between cycling, running, and swimming
-Training zones
-Training stress/load and recovery, and using carbohydrate combustion rates to figure out how much intensity is feasible to do
-Differences between testing in the aero position compared to sitting up
-How world tour cycling teams are using INSCYD
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Sebastian Weber is a sports scientist, coach of world class cyclists and endurance athletes, and consultant of multiple world class cycling teams and other endurance sports organisations and federations. He is also the co-founder of the physiological performance software INSCYD. In this two-part interview we discuss recent updates to the INSCYD platform and go deep into physiology and training concepts relevant for optimising endurance performance.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-INSCYD's Power Performance Decoder (PPD) - a tool that can take any combination of data (lactate, VO2, or power only) and calculate VO2max, VLaMax and anaerobic threshold with a high degree of accuracy
-The accuracy of the PPD, and how it compares to traditional lactate or ventilatory testing
-The mechanism of calculating VO2max and VLaMax using power data only
-The original VLaMax testing protocol, and why it's near impossible to "DIY" it
-Best practices for executing the testing protocol
-FatMax: confusions around the metric and what it depends on
-Benchmark values (and realistic expectations) for VO2max and VLaMax for males and females
-How physiological testing on the bike relates (or doesn't) to running and swimming
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https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts237/
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