The TrainAnything Show

🎙️ Welcome back to Ep 082 of The TrainAnything Show! This week, Dylan and John wrap up The Seasons of an Athlete series with Part 3: What to Do Next. After exploring the art of starting again and learning when to push and when to pause, the conversation shifts to one of the most important decisions an athlete can make: choosing the right next goal. Too often, athletes jump into the next race or ch...

🎙️ Welcome back to Ep 081 of The TrainAnything Show! This week, Dylan and John welcome back TA athlete Linda “The Beast” Elkins for an inspiring Belief + Action conversation centered around her recent finish at the Kodiak 100K Trail Race in California. If you've been around the TrainAnything community for a while, you may remember Linda from Episode 027, where she famously agreed to do a triathlon...

🎙️ Welcome back to Ep 080 of The TrainAnything Show! This week, Dylan and John sit down with TA athlete BradFord Lartigue for a special Belief + Action conversation centered around his journey to IRONMAN 70.3 Wisconsin at age 65. What makes this story remarkable isn't just the finish line—it's everything that came before it. A few years ago, Brad underwent back surgery and faced the uncertainty th...

🎙️ Welcome back to Ep 079 of The TrainAnything Show! This week, Dylan and John continue The Seasons of an Athlete series with Part 2: When to Push, When to Pause. Athletes are constantly asking, "What should I be doing right now?" but the better question might be, "What season am I actually in?" The conversation explores the different seasons every athlete experiences throughout the year: building...

🎙️ Welcome back to Ep 078 of The TrainAnything Show! This week kicks off a brand-new three-part series: The Seasons of an Athlete . In Part 1, Now What? The Art of Starting Again , Dylan and John explore one of the most overlooked challenges in endurance sports: what happens after the race is over. After months of training, structure, and focus, many athletes find themselves feeling surprisingly l...

Welcome back to Ep 077 of The TrainAnything Show! This week on Sauna Talks: DG Pro Talks, Dylan and John break down the wild travel saga surrounding what was supposed to be Ironman 70.3 New York. From missed flights and tight airport connections to finally landing in New York, things didn't exactly go according to plan. Then came the message no athlete wants to receive: the race had been cancelled...

Welcome back to Ep 076 of The TrainAnything Show! This week, Dylan and John wrap up the Race With Everything series with Part 3: Finish With Gratitude. After spending months preparing and hours racing, many athletes cross the finish line and immediately start analyzing splits, critiquing performances, and planning the next event. But what if the first thing we did wasn't judge the race? The conver...

Welcome back to Ep 075 of The TrainAnything Show! This week, Dylan and John continue the Race With Everything series with Part 2: Execute With Courage. While most athletes spend months preparing for race day, few spend enough time thinking about what happens when the race doesn't unfold exactly as planned. The reality is that race day almost always brings surprises, setbacks, and unexpected challe...

Welcome back to Ep 074 of The TrainAnything Show! This week, Dylan and John wrap up their four-part performance series with The 5 Key Strength Exercises Every Triathlete Needs for Durability. After covering swim, bike, and run workouts, they shift the focus to strength training and why durability may be the most important performance metric of all. The conversation breaks down five foundational ex...

Welcome back to Ep 073 of The TrainAnything Show! This week kicks off a brand-new three-part series: Race With Everything. Dylan and John dive into Part 1, Build With Purpose, exploring the idea that race day doesn't begin when the gun goes off—it begins the moment you commit to a meaningful goal. The conversation unpacks why we sign up for challenging races in the first place, how putting an even...

Welcome back to Ep 072 of The TrainAnything Show! This week, Dylan and John continue their four-part Sauna Talk series with Part 3: The 5 Key Running Workouts You Need To Get Faster. After covering swimming and cycling in the first two episodes, they head into the sauna to break down the run workouts that consistently help athletes improve speed, efficiency, durability, and race-day performance. T...

Welcome back to Ep 071 of The TrainAnything Show! This week, Dylan and John wrap up the Belief Is Everything series with Part 3: Earned Belief. If borrowed belief helps us get started and tested belief keeps us moving through setbacks, earned belief is what happens when years of action, consistency, and perseverance become undeniable evidence. The conversation explores a powerful question: At what...

Welcome back to Ep 070 of The TrainAnything Show! This week, Dylan and John continue the Belief Is Everything series with Part 2: Tested Belief. If borrowed belief is what gets us started, tested belief is what determines whether we keep going. The conversation dives into what happens when setbacks challenge what we believe about ourselves, our fitness, and our potential. From getting dropped in t...

Welcome back to The TrainAnything Show! This week, Dylan and John fire up another Sauna Talk episode to explore a simple question: Why can six days at camp sometimes create more growth than six months at home? The answer isn't more miles, bigger workouts, or heroic training sessions. Instead, they break down the five growth accelerators that make training camps such powerful experiences: environme...

Welcome back to Ep 068 of The TrainAnything Show! This week, we bring you another DG Pro Talks episode as Dylan takes us behind the scenes of his recent race at Ironman 70.3 Boise. From the highs and lows of the past year to the lessons learned along the way, this episode is a candid look at what it takes to navigate the realities of chasing big goals in endurance sport. Dylan walks through the jo...

Welcome back to Ep 067 of The TrainAnything Show! This week, Dylan and John tackle a topic every athlete experiences but few enjoy talking about: doubt. They explore why doubt isn't a sign that something is wrong, but often a sign that you're pursuing something meaningful. From bad workouts and race setbacks to injuries, comparisons, and big goals, they unpack where doubt comes from and why even t...

Welcome back to Ep 066 of The TrainAnything Show! This week kicks off a brand-new three-part series built around one of the core beliefs behind TrainAnything: Belief Is Everything. In Part 1, Borrowed Belief, Dylan and John explore a simple but powerful idea—before we believe in ourselves, someone else often believes in us first. They reflect on the coaches, friends, family members, training partn...

Welcome back to The TrainAnything Show! This week wraps up our three-part Commit to the Process series with Part 3: Trust the Process (Before the Results Show Up). Dylan and John dive into one of the hardest parts of endurance training: staying committed when you're doing all the right things but the results haven't shown up yet. They explore why endurance sport is a delayed-reward game, how today...

Welcome back to The TrainAnything Show! This week continues the Commit to the Process series with Episode 2: Boring Is the Work . Dylan and John dive into one of the most overlooked truths in endurance training and life—progress doesn’t come from exciting moments, it comes from consistent, repeatable action over time. They unpack why so many athletes and individuals struggle to stay committed once...

Welcome back to The TrainAnything Show! This week kicks off a brand‑new three‑part series, Commit to the Process , with Episode 1: Commit Before You’re Ready . Dylan and John dive into a simple but powerful idea—most people don’t struggle with knowing what to do, they struggle to commit to doing it. Instead of waiting for the perfect moment, the right plan, or enough motivation, they unpack why pr...

Welcome back to Ep 061 of The TrainAnything Show! This week kicks off a brand‑new four‑part Sauna Talk series, recorded live in the sauna, with Part 1: The 5 Swim Sets You Need to Improve Your Swimming. Dylan and John dive into a simple but powerful idea—most athletes don’t need more variety in the water, they need better execution and more consistency with the right sets. From inside the sauna, t...

Welcome back to Ep 060 of The TrainAnything Show! Join us as we explore the journey of Unwaffle, an innovative company transforming breakfast with nutritious, gluten‑free, and delicious waffles. Erik, founder of Unwaffle, and Joe, their Marketing Director, share their entrepreneurial story, product insights, and tips for training and endurance—all wrapped in a fun, engaging conversation. This week...

Welcome to The TrainAnything Show!! In each episode, TA coaches John and Dylan will be coming to you with a range of training tips, shout-outs, banter, news, guests, and motivational stories to get you through your endurance endeavors. In this episode we talk about the Fitness You Can't See (at least right away). We give 8 things that make you a better endurance athlete. These things take zero tal...

Welcome back to Ep 056 of The TrainAnything Show! This week’s episode wraps up the Execution Over Fitness series with Part 3: Training Calm Under Stress. Dylan and John open with TrainAnything’s of the Week—focusing on being consistently good and the power of compartmentalizing—before diving into a key idea: most athletes don’t fall apart because they lack fitness, they fall apart because stress c...

Welcome back to Ep 057 of The TrainAnything Show! This week’s episode continues the Execution Over Fitness series with Part 2: Fueling Isn’t Optional (And Never Was). Dylan and John open with TrainAnything’s of the Week—touching on core work and re‑sleep training—before diving into a key issue in endurance sports: the widespread culture of underfueling. They unpack how “eating is cheating” and “to...