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; 🤔 what PERFORMANCE PLANNING is, and why YOU really need it; 😎 the difference between being a TRAINER...
Sep 13, 2023•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 79
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 ain’t enough!). It goes so far that it may be that some individuals might ONLY need a couple of WEEK...
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 78
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 hours to tell your BRAIN 🧠 that you are ok - otherwise, you got FAT! In the 77th episode of The Trainin...
Aug 21, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 77
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 carbs ❌ - but in the end you can minimize a LOT OF DEPENDENCIES on carbs! In the 76th episode of The Tra...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 76
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 must MAINTAIN the love & fun for the process 😉. Continual tinkering and experimentation, and willi...
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 75
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, Paul and Greg discuss: 🙌 how to build LONG-LASTING relationships in high performance sports; 📈 all...
Jul 21, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 74
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, Paul and Chiel discuss: ⚛ ALL about KETONE BODIES, exogenous KETONES, KETONE ESTERS - ALL OF IT!; ...
Jul 12, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 73
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. Obviously that does not mean it is useless, but it is important to understand that apparently you can get go...
Jun 29, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 72
You can do A LOT by pure FEEL and PERCEPTION - including deciding on your shoe! So much so that even top level biomechanists like Dr. Benno Nigg recommend it. There is no one FIT FOR ALL solution; even the new SUPERSHOES could be BAD for you! Alex Hutchinson wants you to understand that there is value to both: rational, measured and all numbers, as well as the subjective, perceived and feeling based conclusions. Make good use of both and try to avoid your own BIAS and NOISE as much as possible! ...
Jun 24, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 71
If you think FANCY new methods, tools or TECH 🛠️ will be immediately a good start when working with NEW athletes, you are dead wrong ❌! Dr Matt Jordan wants you to understand that you ALWAYS have to FIRST build that trust by mainly focusing on listening. Try to learn about the HUMAN sitting in front of you, and LISTEN 👂. There is a reason they are as good as they are! In the 70th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Matt discuss how: 👨🏫 strength and power characteristics transl...
Jun 15, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 70
Work on HAVING ACTIVE EMPATHY for every human you deal with every day! Try to realize what feelings they are currently having, so that you can better voice them, and adjust for what you NEED from that person! Xavier Al Haddad wants you to understand that BEING EMOTIONALLY SMART is all about trying to care about what ELSE people have going on in their life, and HOW it may AFFECT them in their work. In the 69th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin @mart1buch and Xavier discuss 👨🏫 how...
Jun 05, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Ketones are still EXTREMELY young 🐣 in what we KNOW about them in the human body - yet, they are showing some CRAZY potential 💥 for certain populations or situations. Dr Andrew Koutnik wants you to understand that certain studies have shown that for some people (including top level athletes) high FAT 🥑 and ketone based diets may be USEFUL. That does not mean that they are a magic cure for everything (especially for endurance performance) - yeah, it is complex 😉 In the 68th episode of The Tra...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 57 min•Season 1Ep. 68
EVEN if you are working with a SUPERSTAR player 😎 , they own the responsibility for their training, but YOU are responsible for their PERFORMANCE that is owned by your organization! Andreas Beck wants you to understand that you can work with any third parties, coaches, trainers, gurus 🤝🏼 and so on, simply if you include everyone in the process. BUT this process needs to be led by the PLAYER 🥇 themself! In the 66th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Andreas discuss 👉 the “wo...
May 23, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Yes, player availability IS IMPORTANT in professional football ⚽ - although it might appear differently, they cannot keep going around buying players every time someone cannot play! Ian Beasley wants you to understand that you are likely NOT the most impactful individual for how fit, healthy and available each player is. Yet, you are part of a highly professional and trained group of people 👨👦👦 who ALL have their say in that regard - remember that! In the 67th episode of The Training Scienc...
May 09, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 66
TRUE CONSISTENCY is when you pretty much TRAIN EVERY DAY to some degree for YEARS! Bas Van Hooren wants you to know that you don’t have to have CRAZY high volume, nor CONTINUOUS implementation of super advanced HIIT session, but simply consistently training without missing any long periods is worth much more than crazy “blocks” or overcomplicated periodisation! In the 65th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Bas discuss ✨ how volume AND intensity AND spreading both across various s...
Apr 28, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Maybe, just MAYBE you don’t know enough about the MENSTRUAL cycle, female ♀️ physiology, as well as whether or not it influences training. 🤦♀️ ACTUALLY, we all don’t know nearly enough about it! Lauren Colenso-Semple wants you to understand that we are still quite far away from giving training based on MENSTRUAL PHASE, as well as specific recommendations around timing of various training phases or competitions. In the meantime: Get to know your athletes, build an understanding and open environ...
Apr 20, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 64
All the models, THRESHOLDs, numbers and so on are just guides! They ALL have weaknesses and limitations, and if you don’t KNOW them, you will run into problems sooner or later with your athletes! Teun van Erp wants you to understand that ALL these models are just mathematical models; that even the best HRV and recovery gadgets are JUST using heart rate. That does NOT mean they are bad, but that you have to use them specifically and precisely rather than generalistically. In the 63rd episode of T...
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 63
How DIVERSE 👩🏼🤝👨🏿 is your support staff? Do you take ADVANTAGE of the cognitive, performance and outcome increases 📊 your team and organization can gain by simply PLANNING ahead of who the people you hire? Jo Clubb wants you to understand that the science in this area is extremely clear: EVERYTHING 🔥 will improve in your organization if you have a larger variety of gender, nationalities, upbringings, social backgrounds and everything else! In the 62nd episode of The Training Science Pod...
Apr 06, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 62
So you are still using some FANCY 💎 assessment that is pretending to be objective, but in the END still depends on the subjective opinion ❌📐 of each person?! Benjamin Kugel wants you to understand that it is a MUST to find THE ESSENTIALS in your system so that you are not wasting your time trying to get OUTCOMES 💪. If ANY tool is not providing you an OUTCOME, see if you can get rid of it and MAKE USE of already EXISTING human resources! In the 61st episode of The Training Science Podcast, Mar...
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 61
You can be a GREAT ATHLETE and have AMAZING physical abilities… or not😎. There are many top level athletes who are not that well “trained” — and that’s ok! Matt Nichol wants you to understand that skill is most important to FOCUS 🔍 on in team sports, and make everything in your practice hyper-focused to make you better at enhancing that - rather than just looking at numbers 📊 in your S&C sessions! In the 60th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Matt discuss 🎯 the difference...
Mar 16, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 60
You DON’T NEED to keep pumping the GYM NUMBERS if you reach certain levels of physical fitness! GO OUTSIDE and play YOUR SPORT! Chris Tombs wants you to understand that not all athletes need to keep adding more targets in pure “fitness” areas of their skills spectrum, and it is completely fine to even at some point REDUCE the amount of training time in the gym! In the 59th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Chris discuss 📜 how LESS can be MORE when it comes to sports training, ...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 59
NOPE! Heart rate monitoring only is EXTREMELY limited in what it tells you about HIGH SPEED RUNNING 🙁 Paul White wants you to understand that although heart rate can be useful for a variety of training measurements, periodisation, as well as prescription and monitoring, it kind of misses the biggest aspect that is currently trending in most sports: the mixed contribution of neural 🧠 and peripheral aspects (like muscles 💪🏼, duh!) - also mysteriously called neuromuscular factors. In the 58th e...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Good old specificity also APPLIES to TASK SPECIFIC RESIDUAL NEUROMUSCULAR FATIGUE! Yes, big long words, that basically means that your jump fatigue testing might not apply that well to running ;). Dr Jackson Fyfe highlights that any type of interference effect between strength and endurance training will be strongly dependent on the residual neuromuscular fatigue (more neural and brain related vs peripheral muscle stuff!), and that it is specific to your activity. Or put simply — related directl...
Feb 23, 2023•51 min•Season 1Ep. 57
You CANNOT apply all the data and science protocols 100% into your sport! ALWAYS try to adapt whatever you find to YOUR CONTEXT! Dr Miguel Angel Campos wants you to understand that you definitely need to stay up to date with the newest findings, treat them as your FUNDAMENTALS, but then you need to adapt it to whatever you do and whoever you are working with. In the 56th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Miguel discuss 💥 in Spain you you are part of a SMALL team, so everyone m...
Feb 15, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 56
FAST & SLOW might be more similar than you think😄! Yet, there are still significant differences THAT MATTER in terms of daily training prescription, periodization, recovery and EVEN PACING⏳ ! Dr Phil Bellinger wants you to consider that you CANNOT work to the same daily training model across athletes with different MUSCLE FIBER typology. These differences matter for so many aspects of training, but also offer an opportunity to figure out STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES. In the 55th episode of Th...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Even if you are an EXPERT in your field/area of REHAB, you NEED to include everyone in the athlete centred process FROM THE START - including YOURSELF 😄! Alain Sola wants to highlight to you how ESSENTIAL it is for you to INTEGRATE across all areas if you want to achieve the BEST results. This is particularly important if you are not a “one trick” pony expert, but you can cover A LOT of areas and have a big “big picture” view. In the 54rd episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Alai...
Feb 01, 2023•58 min•Season 1Ep. 54
ECCENTRIC exercise and training is about MUCH MORE than “just” overload, going hard and being sore - there are at least 3-4 different TYPES of eccentric training! Prof John Cronin wants you to understand that there are many DIFFERENT LEVELS 📶 of eccentric training that all have a VALID ✅ form of application - for everyone! In the 53rd episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and John discuss 🦾 the large variety of methods, techniques and tech that John’s group is researching at AUT for sp...
Jan 25, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Get AS MUCH training content AROUND the MAIN SESSION of your players done as possible 👉 you are unlikely to see them twice during the day ⏰! Dr Malte Krüger wants you to understand that players are unlikely to come back in the afternoon, so you need to design and try to join the 📅 “planification” ⚡ with your head coach. This will allow everyone to get as much of their individual S&C, technical or metabolic work done as possible. In the 52nd episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin a...
Jan 18, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 52
TRAIN it like you RACE it - WITH fatigue 🥵, OBSTACLES🚧, loud cheering squad 🥳, annoyances etc.! Facundo Ahumada wants you to remember that EVERY activity and sport out there can USE “GAME-BASED” drills to their advantage, AND as a HIIT stimulus 🧑🏽🚀 In the 51st episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Facundo discuss 🤕 the situation of exercise and sport science in Argentina and South America generally, 👨💻 how Facundo is trying to implement high-end training concepts by combin...
Jan 12, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 51
The best COACHES, sport SCIENTISTS, professors, mentors, gurus and so on - are ALL not “that good” at their job 🤷♀️ - because we don’t really teach behavioral aspects of dealing with humans 🥺 David Dunne wants you to think about all the DIFFERENT context that we love to talk about and consider how often these depend on simple human interactions and behaviors - ⚠️ BEHAVIORS⚠️ is the key word here that you should pay attention to more often 🏋🏻♂️! In the 50th (OH MY GOD 😱🤩) episode of The T...
Jan 04, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 50
