All Episodes

S2 E11. July Training: Time Trials, Strength, and Skill Development

S2 E10. Fabian Stocek: The Marginal Gains That Win Races

S2 E9. Recovery Weeks are Not Vacation Weeks

S2 E8. Jason Cork: 16 years of coaching Jessie Diggins

S2 E7. What Percent of Training Should be Ski Specific?

S2 E6. Sophia Laukli opens up about why she needed to take a step away from skiing.

S2 E5. Blood Volume, Burnout & Broken Training Zones

S2 E4. Emma Albrecht: From Broken Spine to the World Cup

S2 E3. Is Hawaii Secretly a Perfect Training Location for XC Skiers?

S2 E2 Zak Ketterson on Why Training Harder Isn’t the Answer.

S2 E1. Stacking Bricks: The Real Path to Success is Consistency

Ep. 46 Rest, Reflect, Rebuild: How Much Rest Do Endurance Athletes REALLY Need?

Ep . 45 What Should Skiers Do in March? End-of-Season Training Explained

Ep. 44 Olympic Takeaways: Skis, Strategy, and Split-Second Decisions

Ep. 43 Sverre Caldwell’s Formula for Development Success

Ep. 42 Kikkan Randall’s Honest Breakdown of Pressure, Pain, and Performance

Ep. 41 The Peaking Episode

Ep. 40 JD Downing Leads Team USA to the Masters World Cup: Training, Tapering, and Competing After 40

Ep. 39 Faster after stepping away from the sport?

Ep. 38 What Elite Athletes Do Between Sprint Heats with USSS PT Ned Dowling

Ep. 37 How Erika Flowers Balances Elite Racing, Motherhood, and a Full-Time Job

Ep. 36 Gary Chambers: The Master's Perspective

Ep. 35 Training Through Racing: Don’t Panic After Early Season Results

Ep. 34 Øyvind Sandbakk: The Science Behind the Norwegian Training Model

Ep. 33 Your Best Training Happens on the Worst Snow.

Ep. 32 Zach Caldwell's 4 Pillars of Coaching

Ep. 31 VO₂ Max vs. Threshold: The 'Double Whammy' Explained.

Ep. 30 Chad Salmela: What is Threshold?

Ep. 29 Inside the Athlete Mind: Lessons from Diggins, Ogden, Kern and Wright

Ep. 28 Campbell Wright: From New Zealand to the top of the world.

Ep. 27 Candidly Jessie Diggins.

Ep. 26 Do Masters Really Need Lactate Tests?

Ep. 25 Inside the Athlete’s Mind: Building Resilience with Dr. Lauren Loberg

Ep. 24 Altitude Camps Explained: Timing, Benefits, and Best Practices

Ep 23 Susan Dunklee: From Vermont Roots to World Championship Podiums

Ep. 22 Chris Grover on Building U.S. Skiing Into a World Power

Ep. 21 The Long Game: Cultivating Endurance Resilience

Ep. 20 Jim Galanes: Coaching Wisdom from 50 Years in Nordic Skiing

Ep. 19 The Elusive “Perfect” Training Plan, and More Listener Questions

Ep. 18 Ben Ogden: Balancing School and the Olympics

Ep. 17 Are You Biathlon’s Next Big Star? Ft. Tim Burke

Ep. 16 Noah Hoffman: Olympic Racer, Athlete Advocate.

Ep. 15 The Shorter the Race; The Longer the Warm-Up

Ep. 14 Muscles don't have Memory: Balance and Movement Science with Dr. Sharon Henry.

Ep. 13 Years of Club Development Wisdom with Rick Kapala

Ep. 12 Overtraining vs. Under-Recovering. Understanding the Signs

Ep. 11 Criteria and Data-Driven Development with Gus Keading

Ep. 10 Media, Pro-Teams and the Future of Broadcasting with Ryan Sederquist

Ep. 9 The Zone 2 Myth and the Art of Not Overtraining

Ep 8. Altitude, Oxygen and Lactic Acid with Tom Cuddy

Ep 7. The Strength Skiers Actually Need

Ep 6. Ski Flexes, Fitness and Family with Matt Liebsch

Ep. 5 June Training Hacks

Ep. 4 Sports Nutrition with Olympic Dietitian Megan Chacosky.

Ep. 3 Intensity Distribution: VO₂ Max Isn’t Everything.

Ep. 2 Julia Kern on Intensity and Cross Training

Ep. 1 Training Logs: A Secret Weapon for Smarter Training