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1 % Better - Hidden Stories in Sport — 133 episodes

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1

Woken at 2am, Then Crashed: Did Jonas's Drug Test Cost Him the Tour?

2

How Do You Build a Training Program? A Periodisation Deep Dive

3

Men Hitting the Wall More than Women & GOATs Unretiring

4

Winning Frankfurt, Happiness in Training and Lifechanging Wins - Pro Triathlete Casper Stornes

5

Winning Challenge Roth, Curiosity & Experimentation - Professional Triathlete Kristian Hogenhaug

6

Performance Development, Doping and Youth Performance

7

Ultramarathons and Bowel Cancer

8

Ketones - Aitor Viribay Energy Series pt 5

9

Should Olympians Get Paid? + Ninja Warrior Goes Olympic & NCAA Goes Pro

10

Lactate & Lactate Supplementation - Aitor Viribay Energy Series pt 4

11

Knicks, Wemby & The Fight for Tennis's Soul

12

Carbohydrates - Aitor Viribay Energy Series pt 3

13

Gut Health and the Microbiome in Athletes - Assistant Professor Emily Dow

14

Energy Expenditure - Aitor Viribay Energy Series pt 2

15

The GOAT Formula, Female Durability & Cocodona's New Record

16

Is Enjoyment of Suffering Linked to Performance? - Melissa Muzeau

17

Sub 2 & Solving Cramping

18

Mutliday Endurance Events & Pro vs Amateur - Rachel Entrekin

19

What Makes Super Shoes Work? - Assoc. Prof Kim Hébert-Losier

20

Why Athletes Feel Niggles During Taper & The Science Behind Shorter Cranks

21

A Pacer Came 2nd?! The Wildest Running Stories This Week

22

TUEs, Strava Privacy & Injury Management

23

What Pro Cycling Can Teach Running - Jimmy Whelan

24

Data vs Feel, Sex Tests & Short Cut Marathons

25

Training Surfaces & The Worst Coaching Job in the World

26

Boston Marathon and Balancing Crosstraining - Petter Engdahl Professional Trailrunner

27

Building a Performance Environment - Aitor Viribay

28

Developing Athletes in the UAE - Pete McKnight

29

Strength for Endurance, Planning a Training Week & Blood Flow Restriction

30

Implications for Strava's IPO, Road Runners Going to Trails & Vice Versa and the Kipchoge Effect

31

Coaches on the Hot Seat

32

What Endurance Sports Can Learn from Team Sports - Dr Peter Tierney

33

AI in Sports - Professor Brinnae Bent

34

Running Culture & the Running Boom(s) - Mario Fraioli

35

HRV, HRV Guided Training and HRV Misconceptions - Dr Marco Altini

36

2025 Year in Sport Wrapped

37

Western States, Blood Flow Restriction and Formula 1 Aid Stations - Pro Trailrunner Dan Jones

38

Supershoe Use, Being Self-Coached & Heat Training - Pro Runner Alfie Manthorpe

39

Is an Energy Deficit Really That Bad? - Associate Professor Jose Areta

40

Brain Health, Concussion and CTE

41

Earnings, 120g/hr of Carbs & Transitioning Sports

42

Move Aside Ozempic, Apitegromab is Here (Soon)

43

Advice for Heat Training with Dr Lindsey Hunt

44

Cyclists Trying to Run & Kenyan Scholarships

45

Amsterdam Marathon Preparation - Pro Marathoner Phil Sesemann

46

New Records, New Olympic Events & Lawsuits

47

Berlin Marathon Drama, Frodeno Goes Long & Supershoe Science

48

Fasting, Heat and Do Endurance Athletes Have more Daughters?

49

Engineering a UTMB Win

50

Shoe controversy, Boston marathon training & Thyroid hormone use in Olympians

51

Was Sydney Marathon Weak & Insights from UTMB

52

Recovery From an Eating Disorder Pro Cyclist Clara Koppenburg

53

Marathon Longevity with Multiple Olympian Lisa Weightman

54

Should You Do More Zone 2 Training?

55

Microdosing, Elite Athlete's healing capacity and Jan Frodeno Running OCC

56

Mental Health vs Mental Resilience

57

Diet, Stress Balance and Course Familiarisation

58

Small Margins & Marginal Gains with Dr Sam Shepherd

59

The Wildest Week in Endurance Sport

60

Inside Breaking 4

61

Pro Runner Colleen Quigley - The Future of Running as a Team Sport

62

Determinants of Success in Tennis

63

Fast Times and How Sport Evolves

64

Pro Ultra Trailrunner Emily Hawgood - Canyons 100 win & Western States Prep

65

Longevity, Enhanced Games and Attention Spans

66

Rockstar Athletes

67

Wholistic Athletic Development

68

Sustainability and Your Sport

69

Marathon Lessons

70

When Should You Train?

71

Personalised Carbohydrate Requirements - Tash Cooper-Smith

72

Blood Donation & Infrared Sauna’s Impacts on Performance

73

Torpedo Bats and Placebo Supershoes

74

Only Fans, Coaches Behaving Badly & Stellar Performances

75

That Running Episode

76

Rugby's Origins, Bifurcation and International Expansion

77

Birthdays, Tokyo Marathon & Doping Test Failures

78

Sodium Hyperhydration and Performance - Dr Sam Shepherd

79

Questioning Limiters in Endurance - Dr Andrew Koutnik

80

Training Models and Physiological Thresholds - Jem Arnold

81

Youth Development, Neuromuscular Fatigue & Breaking Records

82

Is Music Performance Enhancing?

83

Multi-year Training Plans & Spring Marathons' Elite Fields

84

Athletes vs Influencers

85

Estimating Carb & Calorie Burn and Machine Learning for Talent Prediction

86

Sport in Review and Preview

87

Optimising Training During the Holidays

88

Does RED-S Exist? (Yes) - Assistant Professor Alex Coates

89

Supplements & the Supplement Industry with Grant Jenkins

90

Swearing, Sleep & Failure Points

91

Gold Zones

92

Should Foreigners be Allowed to Coach National Teams?

93

Predicting your Half Marathon Time, Caffeine's Impact on your Sleep and Updates to the 2025 WADA list

94

Determinants of Endurance Performance

95

Pacing, Triathlon Warmups & Tour de France Courses

96

Probiotics, AI Nutrition & Circadian Rhythm Affecting your Marathon

97

Preparing for Kona with Pro Triathlete Matthew Marquardt

98

The Business of Football & Revolutionising the Women's Game with Christie Jenkins

99

Underfueling in Football, Carb Requirements and body weight, IMWC & Pogacar

100

Competing Safely in Endurance Events

101

Interference Effect, Carbohydrates for Recovery & Physiology of Backyard Ultras

102

Adapting to Training

103

The Future

104

If it’s Not Doping What is it?

105

Muscle Memory & Immunity

106

GOATs and Super Subs

107

Everything you need to know about the women's Tour de France

108

Interesting observations from the Olympics

109

Preparing a Crossfit Athlete

110

How African cycling can become a global player

111

Is Carbon Monoxide Performance Enhancing and Should it Be Banned?

112

Crazy Running and Olympic Selection

113

Myocarditis with Professional Triathlete Eloise du Luart

114

Technology and Triathlon - pro triathlete Eloise du Luart

115

Tour de France preview - with expert commentator Hannah Walker

116

Is Changing Sports the Future of Endurance Athletes?

117

Is Exercising Outdoors Better For You?

118

Comrades Marathon Learnings and Advice

119

Trending in Sport

120

Training and Performing in the Heat - Dr Jamie Stanley

121

So Good They Changed the Rules and Breaking the Rules

122

How Many Running Shoes do you Need?

123

Nicotine Use in Sport - Saint or Zynner?

124

NIL, Doping & The Kenyan Marathon Team

125

Underfueling in Endurance Athletes

126

Latest in Supershoe Research

127

Geezers, Injuries and Rugby

128

Mud, Drugs and Tears

129

The Role of Siblings in Sporting Development, Barkley Marathons & the NFL Combine

130

Swapping Gym for Gymnastics & Winning Gold - Nicolai Morris

131

Ep 2 - Women vs men as distance gets longer and why you may be overheating

132

Aero Helmets & Leg Tape - AI Aerodynamics with Robby Ketchell

133

Introduction