KoopCast

In this episode of the KoopCast, Coach Jason Koop speaks with Coree Woltering. Coree Woltering is an athlete for the North Face. he is the current record holder for the Ice Age Trail FKT and was a member of Team Onyx, the first all black team to compete in the notorious EcoChallenge .  Coree Twitter Coree Instagram

In this episode of the KoopCast, Coach Jason Koop speaks with Brad Wilkins PhD. Brad Wilkins was the founder of the Nike+ Sports performance laboratory and spearheaded Nike’s Breaking2 project. In this conversation, we discuss what is relatable from that project to everyday athletes. 

In this episode of the KoopCast, Coach Jason Koop speaks with Nick Tiller. In this episode of the podcast, I speak with previous guest Nick Tiller PhD from KoopCast Episode 27. We discuss how to be skeptical in today’s sports science world that is littered with examples of bad science, disingenuous claims and influencers peddling products where it’s hard to discern fact from fiction.  Resources- ...

In this episode of the KoopCast, Coach Jason Koop speaks with Lindsay Golich. Lindsay is an exercise physiologist at the Olympic Training Center’s Athlete Performance Lab, and the High Altitude & Environmental Training Center (HATC). She works with USA Triathlon, USA Cycling and other Team USA Athletes in Sport Sciences and Data Analytics towards Olympic success. This episode of the podcast is...

In this episode of the KoopCast, Jason Koop speaks with Blake Wood. This conversation is all about the Nolan’s 14 line in the Sawatch range of Colorado. The Nolan’s 14 line runs over 14 14,000 foot peaks over the course of about 90 miles. Many elite and non-elite runners alike have recently attempted the line. As the line is shrouded in a bit of mystery, on the podcast today is one of the original...

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with José Areta. José L Areta currently works as a lecturer in Sports Nutrition and Metabolism at the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Liverpool John Moors University. José’s primary interest is in the area of training-nutrient interactions in humans. In other words, he investigates how to manipulate ingestion of carbohydrates, fat an...

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Meghan Hicks and Bryon Powell of iRunFar . This episode of the KoopCast is with two of the linchpins of the ultrarunning community, Meghan Hicks and Bryon Powell of iRunFar. What started as a personal blog now turned into the quintessential reference about all things ultrarunning. They serve as valued stewards of the community and selfle...

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Karl Meltzer (Speedgoat Karl ). In this episode of the podcast we speak with the incomparable Speedgao Karl Meltzer. Karl is the winningest 100 mile runner on the face of the planet and has won a 100 mile race in each of the last 18 years. He is an icon in the sport and the race director of the Speedogoat 50k. I caught up with Karl at hi...

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Kristin Keim. 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, MMA fighters.  Her modus operandi, ‘Happy Racers Go Faster’ reflects her own innate positiv...

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Andy Blow. Andy is the founder of Precision Hydration, a company that performs sweat sodium testing on athletes and provides customized hydration solutions. Precision Hydration- https://www.precisionhydration.com/ What the sweat test looks like with Lucy Bartholomew 15% off discount code for listeners - KOOPCAST *** to be clear there is...

Dominic Guinto is the Athlete Services Director for CTS. He is an expert in matching athletes and coaches in order to maximize the athlete experience. He regularly assigns between 50-100 athletes each month and manages feedback from the coach/athlete relationship along the way. We ask Dominic what is critical for the coach/athlete relationship, when it thrives and when it goes awry. Regardless of...

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Alan McCubbin, PhD. Today’s episode of the podcast is with sports scientist Alan McCubbin out of Melbourne Australia. Alan is a PhD as well as an accredited Sports Dietitian with a speciality in nutrition for endurance and ultra-endurance sports. He has worked as a practitioner for 15 years, founding his online business Next Level Nutrit...

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Stacy Sims and Stephanie Howe. Today’s episode of the podcast is with none other than Dr. Stacy Sims. For the last 20 years, Stacy has been relentlessly informing the sports science community that women are not small men, and this has been no easy task. Her latest pursuit in this endeavour includes a new on-line class all about women’s p...

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Josue Stephens. Josue is the director of Product Management at Spartan and he is responsible for the trail running branch of Spartan’s business. He is also a trail and ultrarunner himself and is the former race director of the Copper Canyons ultramarthon and Fuego y Aqua.  Relevant stories on Josue-  https://trailrunnermag.com/people/new...

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Stavros Kavouras. Dr. Stavros Kavouras is Assistant Dean and Professor of Nutrition at Arizona State University. He is the Director of the Hydration Science Lab where he is studying the mechanisms by which water intake impacts health and performance. Dr. Kavouras is the author of more than 130 peer review articles and he has given lectur...

Joe Gray is one of the most accomplished trail runners in the world today. But his world was recently impacted by the tragic events of George Floyd’s death and the ensuing dialogue around race currently engulfing the country. Joe comes on the podcast to discuss his personal encounters with racism, what about the recent events has impacted him so deeply and what trail runners and non-trail runners...

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Shawn Arent. Performance tests are abundant now a days and can range from blood monitoring services like Inside Tracker to FatMax testing and VO2max testing. But how do you make sense of it all and which tests are valuable for athletes?  Shawn M. Arent, PhD, CSCS*D, FISSN, FACSM is Professor and Chair of the Department of Exercise Scienc...

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Craig Sale. Professor Sale is a member of the Musculoskeletal Physiology Research Group, within the Sport, Health and Performance Enhancement (SHAPE) Research Centre.  He has spent over 20 years investigating the impact of exercise and nutrition on health and performance in humans, with a particular focus on the triggers for adaptations...

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Nick Tiller. Nick was the lead author on the recent International Society of Sports Nutrition position stand- 'Nutritional considerations for single-stage ultra-marathon training and racing'. Nick Tiller is a researcher in exercise physiology and respiratory medicine at UCLA. He was born in London, England. Tiller holds Master’...

 In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with new ITRA president Bob Crowley. They discuss ITRA's role in trail running, the fact that ITRA is not well known in North American and what they are going to do to fix it. Also, some forecasting on what the future of trail running is with Spartan and Ironman coming into the sport. ITRAs website- https://itra.run/ Spartan Trail Runni...

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Dr. Glen Davison on all things relating to exercise immunology. We discuss how nutrition exercise and working out hard impact immune function. Dr. Glen Davison is Reader and Director of Research in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Kent, where he also co-ordinates the Endurance Research Group. He attained his...

Coach Jason Koop speaks with Salomon runner Jackson Brill on when runners should hike or run based on some recent findings in the University of Colorado Locomotion Laboratory. Find Jackson here- https://www.instagram.com/jackson.brill/ https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/parent/hq37vp540/file_sets/0k225b90r

Coach Jason Koop answers audience questions on how much to climb, how to find the right coach, how to market coaching during the pandemic and trail advocacy. Links referenced- Personal Peak coaching- https://personalpeak.ca/quarantinebackyard/ OFM blog- https://ofm.io/covid-19-what-you-should-know/ FTC- https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/03/ftc-fda-send-warning-letters-seven-compa...

Coach Jason Koop discusses about how to create resilient athletes with CTS Coach Adam Pulford. They also discuss edge finding and when to incorporate time trial types of workouts.  You can find Adam on Instagram as @adam.pulford

Coach Jason Koop brings Dylan Bowman, Courtney Dauwalter and Kaci Lickteig on the podcast to discuss how their training and racing plans have changed with the COVID-19 pandemic. He also plugs the crap out of some small businesses. Go buy their stuff! Harmony's CBD company https://www.thisisbluewillow.com/pages/about-blue-willow Colorado Springs candy shop https://patsyscandies.com/ Dr. Hal Ro...