80/20 Endurance

Here in the US, we are celebrating Thanksgiving and prepping for the holiday season. Hanna and Matt look ahead to next year, letting you know what you can expect from 80/20 Endurance in 2022, and answer questions from athletes about our various new offerings and initiatives. Connect With Us: Hanna  @hannadoesfitness , Hanna's Jams Matt @fitzgerald.matt , Matt's Jams @8020endurance Sign u...

You know AJ Gregg as the creator of the 80/20 Endurance strength and mobility plans. But you’re about to get to know him a whole lot better in this week’s podcast. AJ explains how he came to be the head of an elite training center before he turned thirty, offers Hanna a bunch of free training advice, and answers questions submitted by athletes like you. Connect With AJ: Instagram @dr_ajgregg Twitt...

It is often said that coaching isn’t a job, it’s a calling, and Angelina Ramos is living proof of this. Her immense passion for coaching and her selfless commitment to the runners she leads at Ball State University are unmistakable. In this wide-ranging interview, Angelina talks to Matt and Hanna about everything from balancing coaching with her own running to her role as an advisor to the 80/20 E...

There’s probably no such thing as a typical ultrarunner, but if there is, Dan LaMorte ain’t it. A standup comic by trade, Dan started running as a way to lose weight, has never run a race shorter than 40 miles, and still smokes cannabis, although he was stone-cold sober when Matt and Hanna caught up with him for this surprisingly earnest and poignant interview. We dare you to listen to it and not...

Training for a marathon is only one part of preparing for a marathon. In her new book, Master the Marathon , Ali Nolan covers every aspect of marathon preparation from choosing a race to avoiding the dreaded “wall.” It’s a true one-stop shop for runners seeking to master the hallowed 26.2-mile distance. Ali talks about why she chose to target women runners in particular with her message, overcomin...

Today, October 21, is the official launch date of the Coaches of Color Initiative (COCI) , a program created by the 80/20 Endurance Foundation to improve diversity in endurance sports. To mark the occasion, we’re releasing a special episode of the 80/20 Endurance podcast featuring COCI’s co-director, Bertrand Newson. Just a few short years ago, Bertrand was a hotel executive and beer league softba...

Sue Reynolds is living proof that emulating the exercise and eating practices of elite athletes can help anyone achieve peak health and fitness. By doing these very things, Sue transformed herself from a 335-lb couch potato into a 135-lb World Championships-qualifying triathlete—all between the ages of 56 and 62! But the inner transformation Sue experienced over the course of this journey, which i...

Few people know more about how elite endurance athletes think than Noel Brick, a sports psychologist at Ulster University and coauthor of the new book The Genius of Athletes . In this week’s podcast, Noel gives us a bunch of insights into elite thinking, and what’s cool about it is that he does so on the eve of putting his knowledge into practice in a half marathon, where he hoped to set a new per...

Knowledge is power, they say, and if that’s true, then self-knowledge is a superpower. Don’t believe it? You will after listening to the interview Matt and Hanna did with Cory Nyamora, a Kenyan expatriate who now lives in California, where he teaches the power of self-knowledge to a diverse cross-section of athletes and nonathletes in his work as a clinical psychologist, sports psychologist, and e...

The reviews are in, and folks think the new 80/20 Endurance podcast is pretty good. But you know what would make it even better? How about if Matt and Hanna shut their traps for a second and allowed 80/20 athletes to ask questions of their own! Well, guess what: We did just that in this week’s episode, which features Chicago-based sports dietitian and Endeavorun staff nutritionist Lydia Nader, who...

Among the highlights of the recent Endeavorun retreat in Boulder, Colorado, was an all-star expert roundtable. Host Jake Tuber and camp attendees took turns firing questions at Olympic 800-meter runner Kate Grace , “Positive Split” columnist Peter Bromka , Matt's brother from another runner Jason Fitzgerald of the "Strength Running" Podcast, registered dietitian Lydia Nader , and 80...

There are lots of really funny people in the endurance world, but perhaps none funnier than Mark Remy. You know him as the man behind Dumb Runner, an endless source of hilarious fake news articles, comics, and merchandise that highlight the foibles of us runners. At the outset of our unforgettable interview with Mark, we told him straight up that he’d better make us laugh, and boy did he deliver!...

Anyone who has ever done an ultramarathon knows that the challenge is more mental than physical. In fact, someone should write a book about mental training for ultrarunning. Oh, wait—someone already did! And not just anyone but Addie Bracy, herself an elite ultrarunner. Addie was kind enough to take time out from coaching a couple of runners preparing for the Leadville Trail 100 to speak to us abo...

If you run, and if you have a coach, don’t listen to this episode. Because if you do, you’ll want James McKirdy or one of his McKirdy Trained coaches to coach you, and your coach will be pissed, and she or he will have a beef with us. Everyone else, go ahead and listen to this penetrating interview about the art of coaching, and of being coached, and a whole lot more. Connect With Us: @hannadoesfi...

Our first mini episode! We want to catch up with you about all things 80/20 Endurance and what we have in the works. Connect With Us: @hannadoesfitness @fitzgerald.matt @8020endurance Offers: InsideTracker | Get 25% off the entire InsideTracker store at insidetracker.com/eightytwenty Connect With Us: Hanna @hannadoesfitness , Hanna's Jams Matt @fitzgerald.matt , Matt's Jams 80/20 Enduran...

Never heard of Jackson Yee? We hadn’t either until he hooked us up with a couple of copies of his book Suffer Better! – How to Raise Your Pain Tolerance and Develop Your Resilience for Training and Life . Now we want the whole world to know about Jackson Yee, starting with you! Jackson’s evolution from spoiled crybaby to hardcore bodybuilder to broke alcoholic to mental toughness coach is both gri...

The world needs more Georgie Fears. A registered dietitian, endurance athlete, and author of books including the Racing Weight Cookbook and Give Yourself More , Georgie is everything that all too many nutrition experts and pseudo experts are not: reasonable, evenhanded, pragmatic, and openminded. Her takes on body image, cooking, building sustainable food habits, and other topics covered in this f...

Have you ever dreamed about living the life of a professional athlete? How cool would it be to drop out of the workaday world for a little while and immerse yourself a sport-centered lifestyle in a beautiful place? Jake Tuber is on a mission to make this experience a reality for anyone who’s interested. An executive coach and learning facilitator in his own workaday life, Jake is also the creator...

Does the world need another endurance podcast? No. But we’ve created one anyway, and we think you’ll like it. In this debut episode, Matt introduces and interviews his own cohost, Hanna, who may be less well-known to the endurance world now but won’t be for long. You’ll hear Hanna talk about her days as a highly ranked youth swimmer and the valuable athletic and life lessons she learned when perfo...

What’s the single most impactful thing you could do to improve your athletic performance? Hire a coach? Clean up your diet? Buy a better bike? After listening to our interview with mental performance consultant Carrie Jackson, you just might decide that it’s none of the above. Carrie specializes in mental skills training, a specific, evidence-based set of tools that can do more to improve athletic...

 80/20 Endurance is the world’s leading developer of training plans for endurance athletes—and now it’s also a podcast! Hosted by Matt Fitzgerald and Hanna Hunstad, our eclectic weekly series aims to entertain, inform, and inspire athletes of all abilities and experience levels by providing a forum for lively conversations with a diverse range of personalities from the endurance world. Each new ep...