Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEpisode 181: Flux Training: The Magic Bullet Workout?
What’s new in training? Not much! But, alternations, flux training, lactate dynamics, natural fartleks…or whatever you call it is underutilized in mo…
4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 180: Avoiding Training Dead Ends: Methods to Restoring the Winning Balance
Training is about balancing opposing demands: speed and endurance. What happens when you mess up the balance? It’s often a disaster. In this episode,…
4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 179: The 10 Timeless Guiding Principles of Distance Running Training
We often get lost in the details. Arguing over the final 1%, whether we should run at lactate threshold or critical velocity? Whether 200s or 300s ar…
4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 178: Running Half Truths: Advice to Be Ignored
Every sport has the items that many of us seem to believe, that are ingrained in the history of the sport, that have no foundation or backing. In thi…
4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 177: Sympathetic Overdrive- How to Get Out of Stressing Out!
Athletes stress out…a lot! And once you are in stressed mode, it’s hard to get out of it. You can’t sleep hours after competing because your mind is …
4 years, 3 months ago
BONUS: Sink or Swim, Survive or Thrive
Welcome to this special bonus issue. Steve does his best revisionist history impression, telling you the story of Paul Bear Bryant’s famous Junction …
4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 176: Individualizing Training in Larger Settings
Individualizing training is easy at the professional level. You’ve got a handful of athletes, all very good, and can adjust as needed. In larger sett…
4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 175: Fast Losers-Racing vs. Time Trialing
Racing is a skill. How do we get comfortable in a pack? Running from the front, or perhaps stuck in the back? How do you deal with the rising tension…
4 years, 3 months ago
Episode 174: How to Do Hard Things: The Art of Suffering
How do you handle pain, fatigue, and discomfort? Do you look for a hole to step into or do you work your way through? In this episode, we discuss Ste…
4 years, 4 months ago
Episode 173: The Difference Between Extraordinary and Mediocre
What game are you playing? We all may think we are all running the same race. A 1,500m race in high school is the same as in college, and the same as…
4 years, 4 months ago