Training Science Podcast

IMAGINE ALL the things you would like to MEASURE 👉🏼 before, during and after training? How MANY sensors would you need for ASSESSMENT AND TRAINING?  Dr Martin O’Reilly wants you to understand that even if you just find A BIT of OBJECTIVE 💯 data, you can have MASSIVE GAINS 👌 to your training - ESPECIALLY for all the strength and conditioning work that usually is tough to get extra info on.  In...

WOMEN as coaches, trainers or sport scientists need to be 💪🏼 TOUGH?! Maria Burova wants you to consider that sometimes it can be an ADVANTAGE 🔥 to be more EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT, to LISTEN MORE and navigate GENTLY within professional sports.  In the 95th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Maria discuss: 💪🏽 how to START in the SPORTS and PERFORMANCE world as a WOMAN; 🤸 the s...

HYPOXIA does NOT work for you? ARE YOU SURE?! Dr Iñigo Mujika wants you to understand that there is much more than its1999 Tour de France pretending that all that matters is hemoglobin mass!  In the 94th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Iñigo discuss: 💪🏽 HEAT adaptation and how you can make it work IN ONLY 2 WEEKS; 🤸 all the ATHLETE ASPECTS that you NEVER THOUGHT you could PERI...

If you are NOT CLEAR on what YOU WANT as a PERFORMANCE TEAM, you will run into COMMUNICATION ISSUES! Shane Malone wants you to understand that the TEAM BEHIND THE TEAM must also work as an actual TEAM! Make sure that you are working together with all parties, INCLUDING THE COACH to get where you need to go. In the 93rd episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Shane discuss: 💪🏽 how to...

PLAY needs to be PART of your STRENGTH & CONDITIONING - YES, you read that correctly 🤓! Erin Carson wants you to understand that a lot of sports (especially LINEAR endurance sports) require us to continuously repeat the same patterns over and over again. And then you go and give the SAME LOAD to your athletes again in the gym?! Yeah, nah. In the 92nd episode of The Training Science Podcast, P...

Running on angles, curves or CHANGING directions requires BIG force! You need to prepare for that SPECIFICALLY! Andrew Gray would like you to understand that there are large differences between the various degree of curves and angles that you may be running at. And if you are doing full 180 degree turns or changes of direction, then they’ll be EVEN BIGGER! In the 91st episode of The Training Scien...

There is only SO MUCH 🤔 you can do every day as a COACH or ATHLETE - but what is your NET PERFORMANCE IMPACT ✔️? Dr Ben Sporer, author of @outputbook, wants you to understand that you CANNOT get EVERYTHING 📋 done to perfection in all time frames, and then magically expect “performance” to happen. Now, to avoid overthinking and overdoing, it is essential for you to consider which parts are import...

DEBRIEF and REFLECT as much as you can - but START with what went REALLY WELL 👍🏼! Dr David Joyce wants you to understand that people are generally somewhat SCARED of feedback. So, especially for the LEADERS 👨🏻‍💼 out there, model it yourself for everyone else. Ask what went well, ADMIT where you messed up, and ASK for help 🙌.  In the 89th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Da...

“BEST” practice likely does not exist - not only is there MANY ways to design training, but athletes are also PEOPLE 😊, and their life will change their training DAILY! Prof Billy Sperlich wants you to understand that any system 🌐 you might design, independent of what training intensity distribution or philosophy it follows, will always fail to meet any predictions a priori. He wants you to thin...

COMMUNICATION 💬 is the key to most aspects of successful coaching in SPORTS - BUT HOW?!  Prof Igor Jukić wants you to understand that communication should be centered around a mindset of 3 pillars: EMPATHY , ego control 😈 and DIPLOMACY (aka soft skills).  In the 87th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Igor discuss: 📅 how small and “poor” countries do performance pathways differ...

If you still think that sport science CANNOT be about FAITH and TRUST because it is some weird “touchy softy” 🤦‍♂️ thing, then you are likely to FAIL 😥. Prof. John Kiely wants you to understand that BELIEFS 🤩 are a building block of all training sessions. You need to INTEGRATE everything around what YOU and your ATHLETES believe to be true (placebo effects), or not to be true (nocebo effects). ...

ENERGY ⚡ will get your TEAM and/or TRAINING GROUP much further than any ultra-specific programming! Jonathan Parouty wants you to understand that every group of people (not just athletes!) will build up some sort of UNIQUE energy. These DIFFER🤝🏻 significantly from group to group, and can have a major impact on how people perform. AND usually it is NOT just a top-down process - EVERYONE 🙋🏽‍♂️...

ALL athletes are HUMANS and PEOPLE first 🥇 - TREAT them that way first and foremost! Jorge Carvajal would like you to understand that athletes have emotions, feelings, thoughts 🤗  and REAL LIFE problems outside of their sport too. They are NOT some sort of machine 🤖❌  that is without any substance behind their athleticism.  In the 84th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Jorge di...

DMAX, MLSS, CP, FTP,... 😵‍💫 - WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT ME TO MEASURE?! Dr Peter Leo wants you to understand that INDEPENDENT of WHAT parameters for training monitoring are being used, you simply NEED to be CONSISTENT 📈. It is NOT THAT important to have the newest and shiniest 💎 measurements, if you can fall back on years of data from previous metrics. In the 83rd episode of The Training Science P...

WHAT matters the most for THE NEXT training session 🚀? Is it ALWAYS necessarily the OUTPUT? Or maybe YOU should talk directly with your ATHLETE about it? Joel Filliol wants you to understand that you need to have a BACK and FORTH with your athletes often to figure out between you WHAT is going to make a DIFFERENCE 🤔 - and HOW! In the 82nd episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Joel di...

It is TOUGH & likely DAMAGING to your HEALTH & WELLBEING if you only obsess about that 24/7 elite grind - and YOU AREN’T EVEN THE ATHLETE😖!  Richard wants you to understand that YOU are NOT DEFINED 🛑 by your working hours, your job title, or your regular career moves. And if you feel like you are, oh boy, you are either already in trouble, or you will get there soon. In the 81st episode...

HIIT + 🍭SUGAR = GUT INFLAMMATION 🔥?!  Trevor Connor wants you to understand that WHAT YOU EAT might be directly messing with your immune system - and making it a CHRONIC issue that won’t just influence your long-term health, but ALSO YOUR PERFORMANCE😱! In the 80th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Trevor discuss: 🚴 how he himself DID NOT BELIEVE that eating LOW CARB would help...

COACH != TRAINER😱 Scott wants you to understand that you cannot simply DELIVER training and call yourself a coach. There is SO MUCH MORE for you to contribute to the people you work with then just a simple instructional “parent - child” relationship. In the 79th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Scott discuss: ⛷️ how AUSTRALIAN sport science “grew up” after the Sydney Olympics; 🤔...

HIIT is not necessarily going to work for EVERYONE 🤯 - especially if you are already training quite a bit! Rune wants you to understand that a lot of HIIT studies and data points have lacked a “load” matched comparison; thus it is uncertain whether HIIT’s effects are down to simply “training with higher load” (or something, because often “total work” or time has been used for matching - but that...

What is the MINIMAL amount of carbs 🍬 that you NEED for ENDURANCE?! WHAT IF taking >= 60g of carbs per hour COMPLETELY STOPS your liver GLUCOSE production 😱? Prof. Tim Noakes wants you to understand that for long endurance efforts you simply do NOT NEED❌ massive amounts of EXOGENOUS carbohydrates. There is a minimal amount of carbs that you need to continuously SUPPLEMENT every couple of hou...

CRAZY long endurance IS POSSIBLE with a minimal amount of carbs 📉. Our bodies are AMAZING at ADAPTING 🌟 to the FOOD that you eat! Sami Inkinen wants you to understand that it is possible to do VERY LONG endurance efforts 🚣🏽‍♀️ and to do them well with little or even ZERO carbohydrates ingested. Yes, it might take you some time to adapt ✅, and NO, you should not just RANDOMLY drop all your car...

Motivation comes from LOVING 💖TRAINING & PURSUING PROGRESS goals - rather than chasing placings, competitions or anything like that. Kilian Jornet wants you to understand that you need to be focused 🥰 on the PROCESS 🔁 itself, especially at the start of any lofty goal. At the beginning of anything physical you will make FAST PROGRESS. But after that, to stay consistent with training, you mus...

Sleep 💤 is SO MUCH MORE than you think - it even CLEARS UP your brain! Dr. Greg Wells wants you to understand that ALL HIGH performers require the best possible sleep - correction: ALL humans require the best possible sleep 🌙🛏️💤 to function well. Remember that when you are ONLY thinking about training parameters for your athletes next time! In the 74th episode of The Training Science Podcast, P...

KETONES cannot be simply used FOR EVERYTHING 🤦🏻‍♀️! Even though there is more and more science emerging, it is still in its infancy - but there are some CORE FUNCTIONS and BENEFITS! Dr Chiel Poffé wants you to know that it is probably best to use it for RECOVERY (after exercise!), and before sleep, so that you enhance ADAPTATIONS from training. In the 73rd episode of The Training Science Podcast...

We all “love” 😍 STRENGTH & gym training 🏋🏻 to a certain degree - but that does not mean that you CANNOT develop SPEED & STRENGTH without it! Dr Darren Burgess want you to understand that WHOLE sport CULTURES ⚽ 🏀 🏈 have been developed over decades without having very much strength or speed specific training AT ALL. Many footballers in Europe for example barely do any gym work. Obviousl...