KoopCast

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Dr. Robbie McIntyre graduated from the University of Stirling with a BSc (Hons) degree in Sport and Exercise Science before going on to do his MSc in Exercise Physiology at Loughborough University. He then completed his PhD at Bangor University, where he specialized in preparatory strategies for exercise in hot environm...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Jolan Kegelars is psychology professor and a lifelong athlete with a strong interest in the combination of Sport and Clinical psychology. This interest is situated both in research and applied practice. His topics of interest include: existential therapy, behavioral therapy, biofeedback, personality testing, performance...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Neal is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Mental Performance Consultant based in Longmont, Colorado. He provides individual psychotherapy and mental skills training/consultations/coaching to athletes at all levels through out the state. He has been a clinical social worker since 1998 working in various settings incl...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Dr Justin Ross is a clinical psychologist in Denver, CO specializing in athlete mental health and performance psychology. He is a recreational amateur athlete himself, completing 11 marathons, 6 Boston Marathon qualifiers, and is a recent finisher of the Leadville 100 MTB. He's also completed 2 Ironman 70.3 distanc...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview:   Manuel is an experienced cyclist and coach at TrainingPeaks.com with a degree in Sports Nutrition. His new book, La naturaleza del entrenamiento (The Nature of Training), discusses the nonlinear and complex nature of training. Episode highlights: (24:59) Manuel on RPE: RPE is an effective way of weighting and combinin...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: The coaches review the process they go through with their athletes when planning out their seasons. Episode highlights: (12:15) Koop on weaknesses and strengths: anchor points, assessing weaknesses and strengths, when were you at your best, when were you at your worst, Abby Hall example, recap (33:08) Emphasizing anchor...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Frederic Sabater Pastor is a CTS ultrarunning coach with a PH.D. in Exercise Physiology and experience coaching athletes for a variety of challenges. He is also a Postdoctoral researcher at the Inter-university Lab of Human Movement. His area of focus are  running, trail, performance, physiology and fatigue. Episode hig...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Renee Eastman is  a Premiere coach at CTS as well as the head of CTS’s physiology lab. She has been coaching since 1996. Episode highlights: (8:59) Koop’s takeaways from testing: assessing existing physiological and genetic traits, using your strengths and building your weaknesses, ensuring training is effective (38:46)...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Adam Pulford is a Pro Level Coach at CTS and is one of the most sought after mountain bike coaches in the world. He also has served ass the team director for TeamShoAir UCI Professional Factory MTB Team the Twenty16/Twenty20 UCI Professional Women’s Race Team and the Orange Seal Off-Road Team Episode highlights: (23:45)...

Episode overview: Coach Jason Koop monologues on what 2023 will bring for the podcast. Episode highlights: (2:16) Scientific and coaching content: Dylan Bowman’s Freetrail is great for media coverage and commentary, the niche of the KoopCast is research and coaching  (5:11) What to expect: research deep-dives and coaching roundtables, timing relevant content around the running season, longer forma...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Ed Maunder PhD is an exercise physiologist with expertise in metabolic responses to endurance exercise, and metabolic adaptations to endurance training. Ed is a Lecturer in the School of Sport and Recreation and part of the Sport Physiology and Nutrition Research Group at SPRINZ. His research is focused on understanding...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Dr. Alan McCubbin lectures and conducts research in sports nutrition at Monash University, consults to Triathlon Australia's High Performance Program, and writes for Cycling Tips. He has worked as the dietitian for the Attaque-Gusto cycling team, adventure runner Richard Bowles, several triathlon squads, the Coburg...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Coaches Darcie Murphy and AJW sit down with Jason Koop to discuss what they are doing differently with their athletes next year. Episode highlights: (2:06) Darcie’s takeaway: perfectionism inhibiting training, factors outside of running (28:22) AJW’s takeaway: multi-day training camps, creating your own race simulation,...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Herman is a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University, where he focuses on the evolution of human energy expenditure and metabolism. He is also the co-founder of the Human Evolutionary Ecology Lab, where he and his team study the effects of diet, physical activity, and modern environments on human health...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Øyvind is the director of the Centre for Elite Sports Research at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology His research aims to improve the understanding of sport performance, by investigating integrative physiology and biomechanics, the effects of strength and endurance training, as well as the utilization of...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Coach Koop discusses how athletes are Complex Adaptive Systems and how subjective feedback can be integrated into training. Episode highlights: (14:23) Athletes as complex adaptive systems: humans have nonlinear responses, context is key (20:32) Physical context: comparing the context of training camps with daily life (...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Luca Filipas a PhD researcher and coach out of Milan, Italy. Re-Release of episode 113 from January 2022. Episode highlights: (27:17) Why pyramidal to polarized athletes were most successful: peaking for races, adaptations from high intensity (33:57) Koop on peaking for longer distance events: least specific to most spe...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview:  In this episode, AJW speaks with three legends of ultrarunning, John Medinger, David Horton, and Scott Mills, to discuss the current state of the sport and their thoughts about what the future holds for the next generation of Ultrarunners. Episode highlights: (26:57) Scott on Western States in 1982: waist belts, runnin...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Stephanie Case is a well-known figure in trail/ultra running, not just for her success in crazy, tough races (Tor de Glaciers, Hardrock, The Barkley Marathons), but for her outspokenness about women’s rights. Stephanie spearheads tough conversations concerning inclusivity for women in our sport- pregnancy deferrals, quo...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: In this episode, AJW speaks with two of America's most popular Race Directors, Candice Burt and Jason Green, to discuss the current state of the sport and their thoughts about what they hope ultrarunning will look like in the next decade. Episode highlights: (24:14) Community over competition: sharing inspirational...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Still in his 30s, Dylan Bowman has enjoyed a remarkable ultra-running career. During the past 10 years, Dylan has had ample experience being coached by Koop. In this episode, he shares some of the ups and downs of the past decade and looks ahead to a promising future in the sport. Episode highlights: (18:06) Deconstruct...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Kaci Lickteig, known to many as the Pixie Ninja, is one of the most popular personalities in Ultrarunning.  Her incredibly positive spirit is infectious. In this episode, you will learn all about her 8 Western States finishes, her challenges with injuries over the years, and her incredible relationship with her coach, J...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Jessie discusses her rise in cross country skiing to become the most decorated US cross country skier in the history of the sport, what her training is like, why she loves being a professional athlete, and how the US women have shattered the glass ceiling in cross country skiing. We also talk about her eating disorder a...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Stephanie Howe, Corrine Malcom & Sarah Scozzaro take you through their personal experiences with injuries. Learn how they navigated through the injury process and their time away from running. They share what they did well and what they did not so well, along with what they learned going through this process. As coa...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Claire Bernard Miller, DPT on common issues amongst runners, how our feet are more important to preventing injuries than we know and why we should all seek pelvic floor physical therapy. Episode highlights: (21:15) Common injuries: proper pronation and supination, forefoot injuries from narrow toe boxes, Achilles tendin...