KoopCast

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Dominic Guinto is the Director of Athlete Services for CTS. His role is dedicated to finding the right solution for endurance athletes across the world. Episode highlights: (28:00) The best athlete feedback: why do you want a coach, expectations (34:05) Long term athlete-coach relationships: finding a coach that the ath...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Coach Jason Koop speaks with Dr. Justin Ross on mental skills for ultrarunners. How can ultrarunners use awareness, focus, and concentration to improve their performance? How does optimism play a role in training and on race day? Does the meaning we attach to numbers like pace and vertical have an impact on how we view...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Coach Koop sits down with coaches Stephanie Howe PhD, AJW, Darcie Murphy and Ryne Anderson to discuss what they are doing with their athletes’ transition phase. Episode highlights: ( 10:03) Unstructured training: psychological recovery, fear of detraining, quantifying maintenance (33:36) Working your weaknesses: physica...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Coaches Sarah Scozzaro and Nicole Rasmussen discuss why and how to start an off season strength training program with practical examples. Episode highlights: (13:55) Workload bandwidth: train your strengths closer to your race and your weaknesses further away (49:32) Maintaining strength: cost-benefits, sleep, recovery,...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview:   Jason Koop sits down with CTS coaches Chantelle Robitalle and Ryne Anderson to discuss what they learned through the year. We discuss how to deal with a crisis of confidence, crewing and pacing and how to set up the right amount of volume for your next training camp. Episode highlights: (3:12) Chantelle’s lesson: stre...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Paul Burgum is a social entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker, Youth Worker and more recently a PhD researcher at Durham University.  Paul has developed a successful strategy for achievement that begins from simply taking on his own lifelong demons. Episode highlights: (31:52) Results: anger and depression during taper exc...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Sian spent over 10 years providing sport science support to athletes and coaches in Olympic, Paralympic and professional sports across high performance environments in Great Britain and New Zealand. She began her career working as a Physiologist with British Swimming in the lead up to the London 2012 Olympics, before ob...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Arash Khassetarash is a postdoctoral associate at the University of Calgary with an expertise in biomechanics.  Episode highlights: (24:37) Advice for athletes: cost of running increases dramatically downhill, one bout improves your biomechanics significantly (31:31) Additional takeaways for athletes: one bout three wee...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: John Fitzgerald is a CTS Senior level coach. During this episode we discuss our very different training strategies leading up to the 2022 Hardrock 100. Episode highlights: (59:06) Sports psychologist Dr. Justin Ross: accept reality and work back toward optimism, it never always gets worse (1:10:52) Train for your run-wa...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Meredith Terranova is a performance nutritionist to many of today’s top ultrarunners. She has been helping her clients reach their nutritional goals since 2004.  Through Meredith’s guidance, her clients have reached goals ranging from losing weight, wellness nutrition, race nutrition, training and recovery nutrition, an...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Do ultramarathons affects males and females differently? How does this impact performance and training. This episode of the KoopCast explores that question with Nick Tiller PhD and coach Corrine Malcolm. We use Nick’s recent paper ‘Sex specific physiologic responses to ultramarathon.’ Episode highlights: (22:16) Sex-spe...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: The weekend training camp is an essential element of most ultrarunner’s training programs. Coaches Ryne Anderson, Cliff Pittman and host Jason Koop discuss how to set up the most effective training camp possible inclusive of goals, volume and the right timing relative to your race. Ryne Anderson is a CTS Expert coach lo...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Borja Martinez Gonzalez is a Research fellow and Adjunct professor at the University of Bologna. After graduating in Sport Science and Physical Education at the University of Leon (Spain) in 2013. He subsequently completed an MSc in Sport Science for Optimal Performance from the University of Kent (UK) in 2015. He succe...

View all timestamps and show notes on the KoopCast website . Episode overview: Ben Rosario is the Executive director of the Hoka Northern Arizona Elite team. In this episode we discuss what makes a great elite training team and how culture can help drive performance. Episode highlights: (12:58) The advantages of training with a team: support systems, training with like-minded individuals, motivati...

Chiara Gattoni ​​is a researcher and strength and conditioning coach. She holds aa BSc in Exercise and Sport Sciences (University of Verona, Italy), a MSc in Sport Sciences and Training Methodologies (University of Verona, Italy) and a MSc in Sport and Health Sciences (University of Exeter, UK).  She completed her PhD program at the School of Sports and Exercise Sciences (University of Kent, UK),...

Frederic Sabater Pastor is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Inter-university Lab of Human Movement. His area of focus is running, trail, performance, physiology, and fatigue. Paper on physiological variables related to ultramarathon performance. Previous papers on the subject-  Physiological Determinants of Ultramarathon Trail-Running Performance Predicting Trail-Running Performance With Laborator...

This episode of the podcast is a coaching roundtable with CTS coaches AJW , Corrine Malcolm , and Michelle Foster . We go over our experiences training athletes during the last 6-10 weeks leading into a race.  Buy Koop’s new book on Amazon or Audible . Information on coaching- www.trainright.com

Dr. Philip Skiba received his medical degree in June of 2003, and trained in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Georgetown University / National Rehabilitation Hospital, in Washington DC. He then completed residency training in Family Medicine and a fellowship in Sports Medicine. He is board-certified in both Family Medicine and Sports Medicine, and his practice focuses on the non-surgical ma...

Peter Defty is the General Manager of VESPA Power products and coaches athletes using an optimized fat metabolism protocol. Information on VESPA FASTER Study Abe paper Buy Koop’s new book on Amazon or Audible . Information on coaching- www.trainright.com Koop’s Social Media---- Twitter/Instagram- @jasonkoop

Kristin Keim is a sports psychologist out of Newberry, South Carolina. She has one of the more renown practices sports psychology practices in the country today that consists of all types of endurance athletes, cyclists, triathletes, and MMA fighters. In particular, she works with many of the country’s best cyclists, many of whom we mention throughout the course of this podcast.  In this podcast,...

This conversation is about how we, as coaches, practically implement heat training strategies for our athletes. You can find previous podcasts on this subject here: https://www.jasonkoop.com/podcast/heat-acclimation-strategies-with-julien-periard-phd AJW is a coach for CTS and an eminent ultrarunning statesman. AJW’s bio: https://trainright.com/coaches/andy-jones-wilkins/ Buy Koop’s new book on Am...

Julien Périard is a Research Professor at the University of Canberra Research Institute for Sport and Exercise (UCRISE), where he leads the Environmental Physiology Research Group. Julien’s research examines the physiological mechanisms that impact health and performance in adverse environments (heat and altitude), along with strategies to mitigate their influence and harness their adaptive potent...

Dominic Guinto is the Director of Athlete Services for CTS.  He is dedicated to finding the right solution for endurance athletes across the world. Buy Koop’s new book on Amazon- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MYVR8P6 Audible- https://www.audible.com/pd/Training-Essentials-for-Ultrarunning-Second-Edition-Audiobook/B09P38S2PR?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-290525&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_290525...

Michelle Foster has a BS in Biology and is a CTS Expert coach, a UESCA certified running coach, and an RRCA Level 1 certified running coach. In this episode, we explore how training groups can help or hurt your training and how to leverage them the most effectively. Information on coaching- https://www.trainright.com Buy Koop’s new book on Amazon- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MYVR8P6 Audible- http...

 Ida Heikura is a postdoc at Canadian Sport Institute Pacific Info on Sports Science Canada REDs working group . Paper discussed Previous podcast with Jose Areta PhD on Low Energy Availability. Buy Koop’s new book on Amazon or Audible Information on coaching- www.trainright.com Koop’s Social Media Twitter/Instagram- @jasonkoop