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Episode 157: The Floundering Athlete: Ways to Reengage them and Reinvigorate their Performance

What do you do when it all goes wrong? When an athlete is struggling, overtrained, or just not feeling good anymore? In this episode, we provide strategies for how to get athletes back on track from...



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Episode 156: Does what you’re measuring actually matter?

In this episode, we take on the importance and value of measurement. Should you wear a GPS watch, measure HRV, heart rate, power, or lactate? We break down the balance you need to have between...



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Episode 155: Getting the Most Out of People: How to inspire, encourage, and sustain excellence

How do we get the most out of our athletes? How do we help them get as close to their potential as possible? In this podcast, we talk about striving for excellence and giving people the freedom to...



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Episode 154: The Ultimate Coach: A little bit rebel, a little bit scientist.

Coaching is about balancing contrasting forces, the coach who relies on intuition and feel with the part of you who relies on objective data and science. The best coaches in history, from Lyrdiard to...



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Episode 153: Athlete Profiling: Accelerant to Performance development

Athlete + Event = Training Model. We don’t train for events, we coach athletes, with their unique abilities, to be able to take on an event. In this episode we dive into how to classify...



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Episode 152: The Science of Training Loads- Developmental, Retentive, Restorative

We tend to simplify training into either hard workouts or easy days. In this episode, we bring you the nuance of training. Instead of hard and easy, we like to classify training as either building,...



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Episode 151: Belief Building: The X Factor to Success

You can have the perfect training plan, but it won’t work unless you have buy-in. In this episode, we break down the keys to getting trust, buy-in and belief with your athletes. Steve & Jon...



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Episode 150: Innovative training methods that can take your preparation to the next level.

Famed high school coach Joe Newton used to have his team run for 45 minutes, take a 5min break, run for 30 minutes, another 5-minute break, and finally run for 15 more minutes. Ninety minutes of...



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Episode 151: Innovative training methods that can take your preparation to the next level.

Famed high school coach Joe Newton used to have his team run for 45 minutes, take a 5min break, run for 30 minutes, another 5-minute break, and finally run for 15 more minutes. Ninety minutes of...



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Episode 149: Peak Performance Checklist: Everything you need to be ready for the big day

What does it take to perform on race day? The physical components are the easy part. But setting someone up to have the right expectations, the correct mindset, to be able to choose to the difficult...



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