On this episode, we welcome back sports journalist Alex Hutchinson, who’s written a fascinating new book titled Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. Pre-order your copy here (ships out out in February). Endure is a must-read for all endurance athletes! In addition to authoring books, Alex is Outside Magazine’s Sweat Science columnist Read More

On this episode of Ask the Coaches: Reasons for seemingly getting slower (or not progressing) despite several years of training? Taking into account immunity (how often are you getting sick?), stress levels and mindset in gauging your fitness progress or lack thereof. Defining speedwork and aerobic sessions – make sure you’re not training too hard Read More

Paul Laursen, PhD, is back already to discuss how to race well in the heat and avoid detrimental heat stress especially at a race like the Ironman World Championships in Kona. Paul is an adjunct professor at Auckland University, reseracher and has published more than 100 refereed manuscripts in moderate-to-high impact exercise and sports science journals, and Read More

Chat about upcoming Olympics, in particular triathlon and favorites to win Water quality issues in Rio, should the athletes still swim despite the risk? Ways to reduce the bounds of our central governor, and train to be able to better override central governor when you need to. Why are some people’s central governors are stronger Read More

Lots of talk on fatigue today and how to manage it. Our thoughts on the Outside Magazine article “Stress Tested” by Alex Hutchinson, update on Leadman, what is fatigue (and manage, reduce or eliminate it) and the concept of central governor, fatigued and run is pace getting slower — what to do, ‘Big Day’ training according to Joe Friel and Read More