All Episodes
Science of Running — 235 episodes
Beyond Mileage: The New Rules of Summer Base Training
Patience in Performance: Delayed Gratification in Training
Navigating the Unpredictable: Managing Athlete Injuries
Unlocking Potential: The Power of Constraints in Coaching and Training
Marius Bakken on the Norwegian Method: Double Threshold, Lactate Control, and Muscle Tone
Part 3: The Art and Science of Peaking
Coaching Successfully Series Part 2: Defining Your Training Approach
Training the Brain and Body: A discussion on the dynamics of physiology and neurology.
Fit and Fast: Achieving Robustness in Training
Mindset Matters: Training the Mind for Peak Race Day Performance
Recovery Demystified: Focus on What Really Works
Coaching the New Runner. Part 2: Individuals
Coaching the New Runner. Part 1: In a team setting.
Footwear Insights: From Training Flats to Super Cushions
Exploring the New Era of Training: Embracing Experimentation
Keeping Training Fresh: Science, Methods, and Strategies
NCAA Track Champs: Key Takeaways for Racing and Training
Consistency Creates Capacity: The Power of Simple Wins in Training
Double Threshold Training: Applying to Track, Cross-Country, and Marathon
Putting it All Together: Speed, strength, endurance, recovery for runners of all ages.
The Psychology of the Modern Athlete: The Impact of Social Media and Perception of Reality
Mastering Your Mind: 5 Keys to Stop Self-Sabotaging
The Truth about Lactate Threshold | Your Comprehensive Guide
So You Want to Be a Champion: Part 3: How to Recover. How to Connect
So You Want to Be a Champion: Part 2: How to prepare. How to Train
So You Want to Be A Champion? Part 1: How to think How to Act.
Bonus Episode: The Biology of Winning and Losing…with a crazy twist!
266: Overcoming Choking and Underperformance: The Science and Psychology of Pressure
265: Consistency wins: How to be consistent in the face of volatility and unpredictability.
264: The Science of Surging: How to Pull Away from the Pack Mid-Race
263: The Workouts Come Second: Teaching Comes First
262: Do drills work? The case for and against
261: How to Write Training Part 2: Nuance, making adjustments and tweaks
260: How to Write Training Part 1 Getting Started
259: Race Day Meltdown: Strategies and Solutions for Bouncing Back When Everything Goes Wrong.
258: Longer Long Run or Faster Long Run!
257: Workouts are only 40% of the equation. A podcast about the other 60%
256: The science of going out hard and hanging on to win
255: The importance of being good coach, not just a nice coach.
254: Hard workouts: When, Where, How and Why?
253: Race Day Anxiety: How to Confront it, Run with it, and Potentially Overcome It.
252: The secret to winning cross country teams. The power of the 5th man.
251: Doing Things When We Don’t Want To: The Science of Motivation
250: Winning Big When It Counts: The Psychology and The Science of Championship:
249: Fatigue: A deep dive into understanding it and revising workouts around it.
248: Community and Connection: The Core of High Performance Cultures
247: Specific Strength Training for Runners. And how it differs from general strength training.
246: Base Training: Progression Over Career
245: Developing Aerobic Power: A scientific approach to improving specific endurance
244: The Post Peak Peak: What is it and how to set it up.
243: The science of the struggle bus: How people get on and how to get off.
242: Two Feet in Reality: Tips on How to Support High Performance
241: Most common mistakes when coaching distance runners and how to avoid.
240: The Science of Zone 2: Why it’s misunderstood and how to apply it successful in your training.
239: The Science of Overuse injuries and rehabilitation for distance runners.
238: When workouts don’t work: The art of the audible
237: Medium Dig Cycle: When and why to purposefully dig a hole in training.
236: Hard work vs. Overtraining: Finding the Sweet Spot for Optimal Adaptation:
235: The science of Flow states: How to turn it on and recapture it when it’s gone.
234: The Science of Soviet Training Methods: A look back at the history of getting in shape.
233: Traits of a champion: Why some are better than rest
232: Defining the Win: How to stay on track, have success, and have fun doing it.
231: The Athlete’s Hierarchy of Needs. Getting the basics down first
230: Coaching the Modern Athlete: The Role of a Coach
229: Modern Coaching: Ways to Promote Transformation in a Transactional Environment
228: Before and After the Key to Maximizing your Workouts
227: Peeling Back the Layers of Modern Coaching: Manager, Mentor, Teacher
226: The Science of Middle Distance Training: Understanding HIIT
Episode 225: The Magic is in the Man/Woman, Not the Miles.
Episode 224: Anxiety creep: How to fight back, take ownership, and thrive in training and on race day.
Episode 223: The Science of Drive: How to Get Better and Become the Best
Episode 222: What Greatness Really Looks Like: The Characteristics that Drive Elite Performance
Episode 221: PEAK WHEN IT COUNTS: Developing Mental Toughness
Episode 220- Becoming a Great Coach: The Art of Managing Workouts
#219- Managing Change and Uncertainty: Injuries, Going from HS to College, Retirement, and So Much More
Episode 218- Managing Fatigue: Understanding Glycogen Depletion
Episode 217: Dedicated vs. Serious: Difference Between Real and Fake Excellence
Episode 216: Winning culture: Building it, Keeping it, Maintaining it
Episode 215: The difference between direction and magnitude of training adaptation
Episode 214: The Science of the Injury Cycle.
Episode 213: Cross-Country Workout and Trouble Shooting Guide
Episode 212: Wickets for Runners
Episode 211: Traditional workouts reimagined as Flux Training
Episode 210: Adapting Flux Training for Cross-Country
Episode 209: Getting Started and Staying Fresh. A guide for brand new and seasoned coaches.
Episode 208: Freaks of Nature: The Best are Different
Episode 207: Instant Offense: Things you can do today to be better tomorrow
Episode 206: Resiliency: Bounce Back after you bomb!
Episode 205: Risk Tolerance: What is it and how to build it?
Episode 204: Polarized Training vs. Moderate Intensity Training: When, Where, and Why for each?
Episode 203: Do What Works and Don’t Do What Doesn’t!
Episode 202: Genius Revealed: Igloi- The Master Coach You Know Nothing About
Episode 201: Establishing Culture and Setting Boundaries
Episode 200: Experimenting On Ourselves As Coaches
Episode 199: Winning the Self-Improvement Game
Episode 198: Mastering the Art of People. How to Successfully Navigate Working with Different Personality Types
Episode 197: The Finishing Kick: How to Develop It
Episode 196: Starting from Scratch. How to Grow a Successful Program from the Ground Up!
Episode 195: The Art and Science of Speed Endurance Workouts
Episode 194: Champions in The Making- Winners are everywhere. They just need coaching.
Episode 193: General Vs. Specific Training?
Episode 192: You Don’t Need As Much Vo2Max Work as You Think!
Episode 191: Strengthening Your Coaching Weakness
Episode 190: See God Workouts: Reckless or Indispensable
Episode 189: The Norwegian Model of Lactate Threshold Training
Episode 188: Updating Outdated Coaching Ideas
Episode 187: The Power of the Barbell Strategy: Why protecting against the downside will protect the upside
Episode 186: The New Laws of Lactate Dynamics and Its Implications for Training
Episode 185: Marathon Training: Surveying the Little Things That Can Add Up to Big Results
Bonus Episode: The Mike Smith Tapes- Part 1
Episode 184: Fitness Measurement Fallacy
Episode 183: The Secrets to Becoming a Great Coach
Episode 182: What We Learned.
Episode 181: Flux Training: The Magic Bullet Workout?
Episode 180: Avoiding Training Dead Ends: Methods to Restoring the Winning Balance
Episode 179: The 10 Timeless Guiding Principles of Distance Running Training
Episode 178: Running Half Truths: Advice to Be Ignored
Episode 177: Sympathetic Overdrive- How to Get Out of Stressing Out!
BONUS: Sink or Swim, Survive or Thrive
Episode 176: Individualizing Training in Larger Settings
Episode 175: Fast Losers-Racing vs. Time Trialing
Episode 174: How to Do Hard Things: The Art of Suffering
Episode 173: The Difference Between Extraordinary and Mediocre
Episode 172: The Importance of Leaving Room to Grow
Episode 171: The Headcase phenomenon: Stop Blaming Athletes for Poor Performance
Episode 170: Everyone is an Outlier
Episode 169: Developing Performance Flexibility: How to prepare adaptive athletes to deliver when it counts
Episode 168: The Dunning-Krueger Effect on Steroids: How a Narrow World View Holds You and Your Athletes Back
Episode 167: What’s worth doing even if you fail? — How to be brave, take risks, stretch your comfort zone, and avoid manufacturing certainty.
Episode 166: Everything we got wrong coaching Women. And a few things we got right.
Episode 165: The Rocky Road to the Top: Embrace the Mess of Training.
Episode 164: How much of your training should not be running?
Episode 163: Biggest Bang for Your Buck: Training and Workouts that Build You Up Without Breaking You Down
Episode 162: Dumbification Immunization — How to not be a dumb coach & why it’s important
Episode 161: How to become a Nuanced Thinker and level up your coaching
Episode 160: The Down: The missing ingredient to your training
Episode 159: The Art and Science of Workout Design
Episode 158: Positive Illusions- How they can hurt or help performance
Episode 157: The Floundering Athlete: Ways to Reengage them and Reinvigorate their Performance
Episode 156: Does what you’re measuring actually matter?
Episode 155: Getting the Most Out of People: How to inspire, encourage, and sustain excellence
Episode 154: The Ultimate Coach: A little bit rebel, a little bit scientist.
Episode 153: Athlete Profiling: Accelerant to Performance development
Episode 152: The Science of Training Loads- Developmental, Retentive, Restorative
Episode 151: Belief Building: The X Factor to Success
Episode 150: Innovative training methods that can take your preparation to the next level.
Episode 149: Peak Performance Checklist: Everything you need to be ready for the big day
Episode 148: Phasing Out the Long Run: How, When, Why?
Episode 147: The Science of Training Management: Managing the messiness of the training process compared to the neatness of training plan
Episode 146: Law of the Minimum: A Better Way to Think About Training
Episode 145: Amazing Workouts, Awful Races
Episode 144: How to Deal with Failure
Episode 143: Training and Racing in Heat and Humidity
Episode 142: Coaching an Olympic Medalist- A conversation with coach Danny Mackey
Episode 141: The Science of Warm-Ups and Cool Downs
Episode 140: The Power of Reflection- Looking back at dumb stuff we used to do.
Episode 139: Why a perfectionist mindset is holding you and your athletes back.
Episode 138: Big Meet Readiness- Preparing to Perform
Episode 137: Fatigue and the Bear Jumping On Your Back
Episode 136: Hitting the Wall- Navigating Fatigue in Longer Races
Episode 135: Performance Turnaround- How to Get Your Racing Back on Track
Episode 134: Improving is Really Hard!
Episode 133: Track and Field: A Multibillion Dollar Sleeping Giant
Episode 132: The Coaches Guide to Sports Psychology
Episode 131: Workouts, Workouts, Workouts! What, How, and Why.
Episode 130: When Is it Time to Pull the Plug?
Episode 129: Getting Race Ready- Preparing to Perform After A Layoff
Episode 128: Key Markers of Highly Effective Training:
Episode 127: Training Stimulus Threshold and Recoverability: The reason why you aren’t running as fast as you can.
Episode 126: Strength Training Outside of the Weigh Room
Episode 125: Making Adjustments to Training
Episode 124: Increasing Mileage: When, Why, and How.
Episode 123: Why Coaches Matter Now More Than Ever
Episode 122: Periodization in the Good Times and Bad.
Episode 121: You’re not working hard enough and you’re not recovering deep enough.
Episode 120: Peak Fitness vs. Peak Performance
Episode 119: Upgrading Lactate Dynamics: A Key to Running Faster Longer
Episode 118: The Future of College Sports and the NCAA
Episode 117: Development Part 2- Middle Distance Training
Episode 116: Endurance Development- Part 1
Episode 115: Fartleks, Alternations and the Lost Workout Style
Episode 114: Do Fast Times Transfer to Being Competitive
Episode 113: Being Fit Doesn’t Mean Running Fast
Episode 112: The Myth of Losing Speed
Episode 111: Top Mistakes Highly Motivated Athletes Make and Why
Episode 110: Endurance Speed or Speed Endurance? Which approach should we take?
Episode 109: The Fine Line Between Serious and Obsessive
Episode 108: Secrets Revealed- Developing Championship Runners
Episode 107: A Track and Field New World Order: Make Track Great Again
Episode 106: The Hot Hand and The Science of Streaks: A Discussion with Ben Cohen
Episode 105: Clarity is Power: Coaching, Training, and Achieving During Difficult Times
Episode 104: What to Do During Adverse and Challenging Times: A Runner’s Guide to COVID-19
Episode 103: Why You Shouldn’t Train Like a Pro…Unless You’re a Pro
Episode 102: High Volume AND High Speed Training
Episode 101: Interview with Tony Holler
Episode 100: Strength & Conditioning with Alan Bishop
Episode 99: Is it all about the shoes?
Episode 98: Models of Training That Make You Fast
Episode 97: Fatigue, Speedwork, Racing, and More
Episode 96: A Real Talk Rant on Scholarships, Formulaic Coaching, and Core Values
Episode 95: Playing Hurt- Understanding the Nuance of Injury.
Episode 94: Is Peaking a Myth?
Episode 93: The Biggest Mistakes Coaches Are Making Today
Episode 92: How to Crawl Out of the Burnout Hole
Episode 91: Airing of The Grievances on Track and Field with Mario Fraioli
Episode 90: David Epstein on All Things Performance, Drive, Passion, And Range.
Episode 89: On Burnout. + A Tangent on Reading
Episode 88: How Social Media and the Internet Influences Coaching and Performance
Episode 87: There are NO Magic Training Intensities
Episode 86: Workouts Don’t Matter as Much as You Think
Episode 85: Committing to Your Own Development
Episode 84: Finding the Fatal Flaw that is Holding You Back
Episode 83: Breaking Through- The Reality of the Ups and Downs of Performance
Episode 82: How Do You Define Success in Workouts and Races?
Episode 81: Embracing Failure with Brian Barraza
Episode 80: High School Coaching- How we would do it differently
Episode 79: Mastering the Mental Game: An interview with Len Zaichkowsky and Dan Peterson
Episode 78: The Difference Between Good and Great
Episode 77: You Can’t Force Improvement
Episode #76: Transitions, Ego, and Racing with 3:56 miler Daniel Herrera
Episode #75: The Easy Days: How far, how fast, how much?
On Coaching #74: Alex Hutchinson-“The goal isn’t to go faster…the goal is to feel better doing it.”
On Coaching #73: “Keep Showing Up”- Lessons from the Boston Marathon
On Coaching #72: The Intangibles: Can You Develop the “It” Factor
On Coaching #71: Does Science Constrain Coaching?
Episode 70: The Anatomy of a Medal- An Interview with Danny Mackey
Episode 69- The Long Run: How far, how fast, and do you need it?
Episode 68- Threshold Training: Good or Bad? And what in the world is it?
Episode 67- Winning: The Art and Science of Competing
Episode 66-Interview with Alan Webb: How he trained to run a 3:46 mile
Episode #65-Interview with Lauren Fleshman On Coaching
Episode 64: Recovery During Workouts
Episode 63: Everything You Need to Know About the 5k
Episode 62: Our Worst Coaching Blunders in Coaching Middle Distance
Episode 61: “If you can’t be great, be good” Coach Mike Smith after winning a National Championship