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More Reasons Why Norwegians Dominate in Endurance Sports – With Prof Thomas Losnegard & Prof Paul Laursen
Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Show Notes VO2max testing could appear as “outdated” - but not for the Norwegians. They still rely heavily on it. Despite it being a central aspect of performance assessment and long-term planning,...
Desolving the Fat Mystery – Are Carbs History? – With Dr Phil Maffetone, Prof Tim Noakes & Prof Paul Laursen
Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Show Notes If you have GLUCOSE available your body will HAVE TO use it. By default you will be “switched” into utilising that glucose, and muscle glycogen will become somewhat irrelevant. Now, IF you...
Modernize Your Strength Programmes Through Motorized Resistance – With Dr Ola Eriksrud & Dr Martin Buchheit
Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Show Notes As highlighted SEVERAL times now: DECELERATION and the skills require for CHANGE OF DIRECTION are sorely undertrained. The earlier you can start on this within athlete development, the...
Data, Testing Context & Long-Term Collaboration in Football Performance – With Carlos Del Barrio & Dr Martin Buchheit
Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Show Notes As highlighted SEVERAL times now: DECELERATION and the skills require for CHANGE OF DIRECTION are sorely undertrained. The earlier you can start on this within athlete development, the...
Smart Training Is Not Tech-Driven – With Dr Mladen Jovanović & Dr Martin Buchheit
Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Show Notes Technology is a tool that needs to be viewed and used ADEQUATELY. For example, monitoring tools are essential to be used CONTINUOUSLY, so you do not miss specific development of skills or...
Old and New Training Science, but Mostly New for Women! – With Dr Tony Boutagy & Prof Paul Laursen
Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Show Notes Master old & NEW training concepts to TRAIN FOR TRAINING itself. While it is always good to have your major goals in sight, you do not want to lose your ability to be ready to train more...
SALT + WATER = LONG Ride Without Problems – with Sean Sakinofsky & Prof Paul Laursen
Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Show Notes ONCE more: only caring about your “pure” performance parameters without the detailed look at the various health aspects of your life that are not directly related towards performance (e.g....
Part 2: Workout Reserve and the Future of AI Coaching – With Dr Andrea Zignoli & Prof. Paul Laursen
Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Show Notes Workout Reserve is a real-time model of performance capacity. Built on rolling averages and historical max efforts, it tells you how close you are to your limits at any moment—no need for...
Part 1: Modelling First: Building Smarter Endurance Training – With Dr Andrea Zignoli & Prof. Paul Laursen
Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Show Notes Prior knowledge makes every model better. While this may sound obvious, it cannot be stressed enough: feeding models with your historical training data makes the outputs far more relevant...
Microdosing, Rehab, Neuropriming, Neurocognitive Training and More! – With Bram Swinnen & Dr. Martin Buchheit
Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Show Notes While we have mentioned this heaps of time before, ECCENTRIC training can be so many things: performance improvement, movement teaching (especially for decelerations) and neuro-cognitive...
HYROX Solved?! The HYBRID Athlete Puzzles Becomes Clearer?! – with Dr Dan Plews & Dr Martin Buchheit
Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Show Notes While strength and endurance are obviously key in hybrid sports, you have to remember about MOBILITY. Yes, not necessarily “flexibility”, but active ability to move through large ranges of...
How to MAXIMIZE Submaximal Testing – with Dr Shaun McLaren & Dr Martin Buchheit
Listen to the episode now or find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.Show Notes Make sure that you have MULTIPLE variables for a complete testing system. You cannot just rely on one parameters, neither one type of data (e.g. heart rate). Mix it in with e.g. some...