IF you PROGRESS players FAST 💨 through development and various teams, they are LIKELY to be lacking SOMETHING 🤷♀️ Dr Karim Hader wants you to understand that supporting any developmental players in football (and likely other sports ;)) requires a HOLISTIC approach to ALL ASPECTS of their life, rather than just rushing the best new hopefuls from team to team. In the 49th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Karim discuss ⚽ everything a young football player needs, ❤️🔥 what the...
Dec 29, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 49
Xx 🤨, Benjamin Boulnois wants you to understand that not everything is BLACK and WHITE in the world of “high performance” - even in a highly BOOMING sector like CYBER security. He has lots of cross-over insights for what we, the sport scientists, can 🦾 learn from the TECH industry. In the 48th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Benjamin discuss 🧠 how competence, integrity and humility might not ALWAYS be the best (or worst) characteristics, 🎯 why and how you align your PEOPL...
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 48
MAYBE, just MAYBE 🤨, all those fatigue tracking and measurement 👨💻 things we LOVE doing in sport science are NOT that USEFUL?! Dr Carlos Ramirez would like you to consider that there is a chance that “being tired” 😴 or even “fatigued” might not be that bad for your athletes - especially if they fall amongst those younger ones that can recover much faster than us oldies 👴🏼. In the 47th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Carlos speak about ⚕️ how changing from a medical and s...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Never laugh at ANYONE'S LIFE EXPERIENCE 😮 - build your OWN with various AREAS, countries 🌏and work conditions. Fergus Connolly wants you to understand that you NEED science, but you also NEED everything else - like the knowledge of how to speak to people that have DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS 🧑🏿🤝🧑🏼from you. In the 46th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Fergus speak about ❌👨🎓 being able to work in the sports performance field WITHOUT a formal scientific education, 🧙🏻♂️ f...
Dec 07, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 46
You NEED to TRAIN your BREATHING SYSTEMS! If you HAVE to compromise (which you should NOT!) then at least work on EXPIRATION. Steve Neal wants you to understand that MOST PEOPLE are under NORMATIVE values when it comes to their breathing ability, AND: YES, it DOES influence your PERFORMANCE! NO, it ain’t something JUST for asthmatics! In the 45th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Steve discuss all sorts of 👩🏻🏫 COACHING, including some amazing insights into MTB training, BUT m...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Lead by example, and practice what YOU preach as an EXERCISE and SPORTS expert! Allistair McCaw want you to remember that you CANNOT look after others without making sure YOU 🤴🏻 are doing GOOD FIRST. In the 44th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Allistair indulge in 👩🏻🏫 OUTSIDE of training stuff - what makes a great COACH? 🏆 What MINDSET do you need to be GOOD at almost anything? 👨👦👦 Teamplayer - what does is TRULY mean to be that? And finally, 😎 HOW do you LEAD an...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Yes, you have to TAKE RISKS 🎲 and PLAY 🤸🏽 with TRAINING methods as a coach, athlete and sport scientist. Dr Javier Arnaiz wants you to understand that no one knows ANYTHING for sure, and that EXPERIMENTING early and often is a core aspect of good practice! In the 43rd episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Javier go in depth into 🤖 Javier’s AMAZING entrepreneurial journey founding 3 different companies (including some AMAZING heat mapping tech!), and his additional SPORT SCIENCE w...
Nov 16, 2022•48 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Do you KNOW enough about your KNOWLEDGE to appropriately discern what to FILTER out and what to TELL your COACHES 🤨 ?! Dr Nick Poulos wants you to be aware that OFTEN it is not the best choice to pull players back, stop them from training nor try to “manage” their load by reducing it. Sometimes it is BEST to simply try everything else to HELP your athletes, rather than stopping from training! In the 42nd episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Nick discuss ⚖️ the complexity of chang...
Nov 09, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 42
MORE 🤨 training for someone like Daniil Medvedev 🎾 (AFTER!) playing back to back to back tournaments?! Dr Yann Le Meur wants you to be aware of your players ACTUAL load 📊 that is happening daily during their sport, rather than just ASSUMING it! In the 41st episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Yann cover ⚖️ how tennis is quite SIMILAR to football with respect to how training and loading has to happen, 🤖 and how you can use almost the SAME techniques and methods to assess them (...
Nov 02, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 41
When working with an athlete you need to be clear about THEIR STRENGTHS. What makes them special? WHY are they good at what they do! While Stuart McMillan wants you to consider ALL ASPECTS of an athlete and their training, he especially emphasizes you to be clear around what makes them SUCCESSFUL. Then figure out how to exploit these further. Don’t go about working on weaknesses, which more often than not makes an athlete worse. In our 40TH (OMG!) Training Science Podcast Episode, Paul and Stuar...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Leaders must look after their wellbeing first ❤️ - you cannot otherwise expect others to trust you looking after them 😎 Dr Craig Duncan is convinced that you are probably not self-managing your health and wellbeing enough on a daily and weekly basis - no, that ONE yoga, lifting or HIIT session 🧘♂️ you did last month does not count 🙅! Although sport is all about PERFORMANCE, we have to remember that unless we “walk the talk”, we are not only pretending we care about the importance of strength...
Oct 19, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 39
PRACTICE oriented research - maybe THE BEST bridge to 🌉 build between scientists and practitioners! It may be sometimes hard for ⚽ sport specific coaches 👩💼 managers 👨🏻🔬 and the brainiacs from exercise and sport science to get together, but Dr. Israel Halperin has a method that has been extremely successful for him: ✅ Focus the research and science on what practically may have DIRECT BENEFITS for everyone In our 38th Episode of The Training Science Podcast Martin and Israel discuss this ...
Oct 12, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 38
“ANAEROBIC”, energy or metabolism are NOT limiting your speed. Full stop. End of story - for now! The current data on it is quite clear, but yet most of us have NO CLUE that this is the case. Prof Peter Weyand has spent a couple of decades working in the physiology, physics AND mechanics of moving at high speeds - and he is more than confident that we should abolish the term “anaerobic” zone for fast speeds. In our 37th Episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Peter go through A LOT of ...
Oct 05, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Adjusting your RECOVERY 🛀 and TRAINING for INDIVIDUAL players can happen AT THE SAME TIME as generating BUY-IN and developing EDUCATION through AUTONOMY 🤸! Andy Wiseman wants you to consider that “compliance” or “buy-in” can be developed together with the players and THEIR NEEDS, while also providing them EDUCATION instead of just information overload 📚! In our 36th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Andy discuss a lot of “non”-training sport science and application: everythi...
Sep 28, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 36
There are a lot of fancy SPORTS TECH and ADVANCED methods that usually go HAND IN HAND in sports. Unfortunately, not everyone has the SCOPE and even the NEED to use it. Mathieu is highlighting how everything that happens has to be driven from WITHIN the WHOLE TEAM that you are working with - whether that involves the ATHLETES & COACHES or the rest of your PERFORMANCE and MEDICAL STAFF! In the 35th Episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin gets to chat with his former colleague and good...
Sep 21, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 35
COMBAT sports 🤼 are CHAOS! So HOW do you MANAGE that from a TRAINING AND PERFORMANCE perspective 💥? Although Mixed Martial Arts have enjoyed a fast increase in popularity and participation, there is still plenty of “figuring” out to do when you are putting individuals from all sorts of backgrounds together 🥊🥋🪓. Thus, we aren’t surprised that Duncan leads his team using a holistic approach 😇 around how each practitioner is challenged working alongside a diverse group of athletes and coaches...
Sep 15, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 34
HARD & SHORT intervals SHOULD never be prescribed based off an AEROBIC parameter 🙄! Dajo Sanders clarifies how at first glance the sport of cycling 🚵🏻 will appear more or less a simple linear sport, there in fact is a massive difference in terms of the “performance determinants” because every stage can be so different - and THE CYCLISTS ARE TOO! So when designing a cyclist’s training, you need to account for not just the STAGE profiles, but also the ATHLETE profile along with the variety ...
Aug 30, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Do you even NEED BIG DATA 📊 & FANCY sport science in your sport?!😵💫 Alan McCall is all about the seamless INTEGRATION & COLLABORATION of exercise and sport science research DIRECTLY with people on the ground, in the field - even if you have only the basics and simple data to work with! It all comes down to working together and finding middle ground. Importantly, we need to STOP ⛔ dividing ourselves into “camps” ⛺! Work together and trust each other's strengths! In the 32nd episode of...
Aug 24, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 32
FOCUS on INDIVIDUAL 🙋🏼♀️ importance of training! Every single one of your athletes needs to be looked after! DETAILS matter on that level more than ever💗. Lorena wants you to understand that at any level it is essential to work with what you have, whether it is tools 🧰 , resources or even OUTSIDE specialists that your players are consulting/training with - start where you are and get all the DETAILS about your athletes. The 31st episode of the Training Science Podcast, has Martin back and t...
Aug 15, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 31
You NEED to consider INDIVIDUALIZING your CONDITIONING programs 👏! Maybe, just maybe, it is BETTER to train your athletes metabolic STRENGTHS, rather than trying to “reduce weaknesses” 😉. Rod wants you to consider that it is unlikely that one type of metabolic training fits all your athletes. There is a large chance that you need to PROFILE them first, and then apply individually designed programs to allow them to IMPROVE THEIR EXISTING STRENGTHS! For our “mini-anniversary” 30th episode of the...
Aug 09, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Want to have a start in sport? As always, you’ll need to work towards understanding its CONTEXT. But additionally, the context and PERFECTIVE of its leader — THE COACH! Steve Manuel wants you to understand that coaching and leading are not the same thing as BEING at the CENTER of everything in sports ⚪. In our 29th episode of the Training Science Podcast, Paul and Steve highlight how getting into Volleyball (or any sport!) requires an open minded attitude around who you work with, that you have ...
Aug 04, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 29
🌞 HEAT, HIIT, HEAT, MORE HEAT! Or was it HIIT?🌞 Yes, it is good for you (obviously with certain limitations) for TRAINING as well as ADAPTATION to hot climates🏖️. And SURPRISE SURPRISE, as so often, it is not the same for male ♂️ & female ♀️ athletes! In our 28th episode of the Training Science Podcast, Paul and Dr Julia Casadio give an all-out overview of why PREPARING for HEAT is so essential 🥵, how we can use it as a TRAINING method independent of hot climates, as well as what are the...
Jul 26, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 28
So you think your breathing 😮💨 is healthy and fine - and of course that is ENOUGH 🤗 for your physical activities, sports and training? You might want to rethink that! Prof. Stephen Seiler is diving into some full-on insights into how we are probably underestimating the importance of VENTILATION in exercise, sports and wellbeing. In our 27th episode of the Training Science Podcast, Paul and Stephen share their somewhat similar journey all over sport science: from mental toughness, understandi...
Jul 19, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Fancy pancy measurements might LOOK GOOD, but a simple TAPE MEASURE around YOUR BELLY might give you the best idea whether you are OVERFAT or not. Dr Phil Maffetone wants you to consider that a FOCUS on WEIGHT means you are missing what matters when it comes to body composition. Think about it. Doesn’t your muscle weigh more than fat? But we need to know how much fat we’re accumulating because a whole collection of risk factors for most lifestyle diseases make up the MAJORITY of deaths nowadays!...
Jul 12, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 26
🤖 AI COACHING & PERIODIZATION is NOT what you THINK IT IS! Now you might think that AI just does EVERYTHING by itself, hey 🙃? No one else and nothing else needed? Well, Dr Andrea Zignoli, part of our @athletica_ai team, is here to tell you otherwise. Paul and Andrea discuss what an AI can BE and what it DEFINITELY IS NOT, how we need to consider our MORALS and LAWS for applying training with the help of AI, as well as in quite some detail how ATHLETICA can help you LEVERAGE all available H...
Jun 28, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 25
FAST food might be fun - but after a hard match/event/training 🤔? Processed and fast food 🥡 might APPEAR harmless to take in every now and then, but when it comes to NUTRIENT density and how you absorb what your BODY NEEDS after or before training - AYE, different story 😉. Hélène Defrance takes us with her on an amazing journey as a young aspiring athlete, through to how she made her dream happen, and on to the present day, where her experiences shape the work and care in her service she neve...
Jun 21, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Your athletes are NOT your trophies❌🏆! Professional collaboration 🧑💼 is all about THE ATHLETES and how much empathy you have for them and the other staff working with them. By putting your OWN EGO to the side and accepting that in the end it is all about the ATHLETE 😇 and NOT the staff, will make a MASSIVE difference to your effectiveness as a practitioner. In our 23rd episode of the Training Science Podcast, Martin discusses with Keith D’Amelia how to truly incorporate external professiona...
Jun 14, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Ok ok, so you DO NOT 🛑 need to STOP EATING CARBS. NOPE! But, please just consider some stuff for like 3 minutes (that is LESS than 5!) if you REALLY need ALL those carbs? 🤔 In our third SUMMARY EPISODE of The Training Science Podcast we go one last time into the various topics discussed with our guests. This one is a truly a classic. Paul starts out with a rather long take on how to implement MORE FAT oriented nutrition strategies into a broader range of sports ⏬ 🍞. But not only that, we hear...
Jun 08, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 22
From a technology nerd, sailor and entrepreneur, to coaching the world’s fastest triathletes and chasing sub 7 hours for the Ironman distance - that’s just the start of our next guest’s bio! In this episode, we hear from leading Norwegian coach, Olav Aleksander Bu. Olav goes into great detail into his unique personal upbringing and background in technology, farming, sport and entrepreneurship and how he combined this experience alongside the development of a TEAM culture that has put the Norwegi...
May 31, 2022•1 hr 53 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Amongst others, there is often a misunderstanding what the “LOAD” is versus what the load-”RESPONSE” is. And how about considering that BOTH, polarized AND threshold based training can work, but in different contexts. In this, our 20th episode of The Training Science Podcast, we present our second summary overview from Martin and Paul, including an exquisite collection of our guests who describe the area of load vs. response, as well as another hot debate: polarized versus threshold training. In...
May 26, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 20
