In most sports we are still surprisingly 😲 far away from treating ATHLETES as HUMANS. Unfortunately, simple things like BEING FRIENDLY 😌 to your athlete, and showing real care is still not standard.Ivi Casagrande wants to change that, and she also wants YOU to TRULY CARE ☺️ about the people you are working with.Coming from an international background with lots of experience in high-level football/soccer, Ivi highlights how important it is to readjust everything you do based on how your athlete's life is going - especially everything around testing & performance reports!In our 17th episode of the Training Science Podcast, Martin and Ivi discuss how important it is it to see the human in the athlete, consider all the aspect that make up our wellbeing 🤸🏻, how it impacts every day training, and how YOU can do something about it to help your athletes TODAY 💪🏼. Even if it is just a confidential talk 🤙🏼 between you and your athlete. ⚠️REMINDER: OUR SPEED COURSE IS OUT NOW! EVERYTHING THAT YOU EVER WILL NEED TO COACH MAXIMAL SPRINTING SPEED!⚠️➡️➡️ https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/courses/maximalspeed ⬅️⬅️_____________________ Today’s speakers:Dr. Martin Buchheit https://martin-buchheit.net/ Ivi Casagrande https://www.ivicasagrande.com/ _____________________ 

Moving AT 💣 MAXIMAL SPEED💣 is a game-changing attribute for almost every sport - and is at the heart of ALL RUNNING 🏃 based sports!In this episode of the podcast, Joseph Coyne goes into detail on how to help make your athletes fast using an ANALYTIC & INDIVIDUALIZED approach. This often relates to finding the MINIMAL amount of work required to OPTIMALLY 🙃 train your athlete. His two main weapons of work will then depend on whether we need to improve more the STRIDE LENGTH or STRIDE FREQUENCY to affect our ability to produce a 🚅 HIGH MAXIMAL VELOCITY 🚅.In our 16th episode of the Training Science Podcast, Paul discusses with Joseph how he went from being beaten by girls to coaching some of the world’s fastest track and field and team sport athletes. Plus, Jo very clearly highlights how sprinting is much more than just running FAST, BUT at the same time you cannot gain it without it - it's ALL ABOUT BALANCE!⚠️ATTENTION: OUR SPEED COURSE BY JOSEPH IS OUT NOW! HE GOES IN DEPTH ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT YOU EVER WILL NEED TO COACH MAXIMAL SPRINTING SPEED!⚠️➡️➡️ https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/courses/maximalspeed ⬅️⬅️With Joseph’s course you will never feel OVERWHELMED by all the stuff you may think you need to get fast - ✔️A CLEAR and easy pathway from A to Z for COACHING ATHLETES TO GET FAST✔️ !_____________________ Today’s speakers: Prof. Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/ Dr. Joseph Coyne http://www.coynesportsinjuryclinic.com.au/ _____________________ 

ALWAYS consider the basics when training for ANY SPORT ‼️, but especially for team sports where you need to prepare for SO MUCH 🤔.Gil Orriols shares his extensive football fitness experience, including his work with FC Barcelona. His first focus in football conditioning is ON TECHNIQUE and the basic movement skills - ⚠️ SKILL ACQUISITION should come before anything else ⚠️ (Gil might even go 4 weeks WITHOUT any progression in difficulty!).Gil comes from an individual sport background (cycling) and leverages his experience here when it comes to conditioning in the team sport context. For example, he discusses how we can utilize CYCLING 🚴 as an AMAZINGLY EFFECTIVE training method for a running based sport 🏃‍♀️ 😬.In the 15h Episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin leads Gil through a collection of his insights about how you can get more results out of your players with less effort, as well as how we can isolate a lot of physical capacities for players individually when we focus on “micro” training sessions 🕒.DO NOT MISS OUT on our upcoming SPEED TRAINING COURSE:https://hiit-science.ck.page/07507772e3 _____________________ Today’s speakers:Dr. Martin Buchheit https://martin-buchheit.net/ Gil Orriols _____________________ 

‼️Direct RESPONSIBILITY for athletes MAKES YOU GROW‼️Whether you are an assistant coach, a sports scientist, physiotherapist or similar:💥 The MORE you can directly work WITH athletes, the better you become💥Dr Jamie Stanley highlights this particularly for his experience with the Australian track cycling programme. Jamie also touches on the point that you need to be able to somewhat understand the loading and prescriptions that you are asking an athlete to do - if you are able to do such a session relative to your own performance level yourself might be an advantage 😮‍💨 !In our 14th Episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul has an elaborate conversation with Jamie about his journey into sport science and coaching, how Jamie has used a unique collection of (what are now) modern methods, including heat and hypoxia, as well as how he has worked with a variety of different sports and athletes (including some paralympians!).REMEMBER:SOON we'll be ANSWERING ALL your SPEED TRAINING questions - PRE REGISTER for our new course!🏆🏆 https://hiit-science.ck.page/07507772e3  🏆🏆_____________________ Today’s speakers:Prof. Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/ Dr. Jamie Stanley https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=1FSWfGIAAAAJ _____________________ 

Fitness training can be DRIVEN through the strategic & TACTICAL directions of the coaches and the rest of the staff 😁! Alberto Mendez-Villanueva goes in depth about how he thinks about fitness training in football, how he prefers the knowledge and “coaches eye” over over extensive technology and monitoring strategiesPlus he also gives direct insight into how he PREPARES his players weekly in terms of endurance volume and speed training 🚄!In the 13th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Alberto discuss everything in relation to fitness and football ⚽. This includes their apparently shared love for football tennis, their understanding of how tactical focus in training can carry important weight when designing training, as well as how technology and sport science can be better utilized in the future for football.Would you like to APPLY SOME SCIENCE yourself RIGHT NOW? Check out our courses:https://hiitscience.com/courses/ _____________________ Today’s speakers:Dr Martin Buchheit https://martin-buchheit.net/Alberto Mendez-Villanueva_____________________ References:Tactical Periodization article. Soccer Journal. 2012.https://mart1buch.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/delgado-bordonau_tactical-periodization-mourinho-best-kept-secret_soccerjournal2012.pdfTactical Periodization book. Alberto Mendez-Villanueva & Juan Bordonua https://shop.soccertutor.com/tactical-periodization-a-proven-training-model/st-b043?___from_store=default&___store=eur 

Being a prior ELITE level athlete is NOT a necessity for working WITH elite level athletes😁! It can feel tough for anyone that doesn’t come directly from an elite sports background to begin working in the field. But this may be especially true for those focused mostly on the SCIENCE 🧪 part.Well, Robert Stanley managed to turn his passion for cycling 🚴 into a leading role for the USA Track Cycling team, where track he now works in a unique coaching role with his athletes. In the 12th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Robert discuss his transition from amateur cycling passion, to studying, to academia, before AT THE SAME TIME becoming immersed as a full time practitioner and coach! In particular, there is good level insight into how Rob applies a training philosophy backed by an analytical model for track cycling athletes.  If YOU want to LEVEL up your APPLIED SCIENCE today, check out our courses!https://hiitscience.com/courses/ What is your FAVORITE cycling event?_____________________ Today’s speakers:Prof. Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/ Robert Stanley   https://usacycling.org/team-usa/track 

THINKING outside of the box and EXPERIMENTING EARLY - at first glance that might not really sound like applied sports science, but Steve Tajshian feels its something practitioners should start considering 😁! Steve Tajshian wants you to do more of your OWN research in your practice with your athletes, instead of just going down the road of “groupthink” and following the bus 🚌. Applying exercise and sports science 🧪  should be the BARE MINIMUM that everyone is doing.Steve is convinced that looking after the “WHY” of your organization, your athlete group, as well as for each individual in your group is essential to figuring out how to effectively develop a “performance” strategy. In the 11th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin talks with Steve in depth about the “meta”-level of how to design, run and execute a performance (and wellbeing) program in sports, including a quick dive into OPTIMIZING carbohydrate usage (and non-usage!) in football.Do you want to OPTIMIZE the way you think and execute your INTERVAL TRAINING? EZPZ, we got ya:https://hiitscience.com/courses/ Why do you work in sports?_____________________ Today’s speakers:Dr Martin Buchheit https://www.paullaursen.com/ Steve Tajshian   

Figuring out everything that makes people faster - this is what Prof. Andrew Jones says fascinates him. Although he has been in the field of exercise and sports science 🧪 for a long time, he highlights that most of the work he has done has been always focused around application of the science in the field as well 🛠️. Although he calls himself another one of the failed athletes in sport science, he still aims to beat a 3 hour marathon himself in his 50’s 🏃!In the 10th (WOOOHOOO🎉!) episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Andrew discuss a variety of topics around physiology, performance testing, VO2 kinetics, critical power, and quite a bit on breaking records.The insights include some close up details on the Breaking 2 attempt that Andrew was part of, how it translated to actually breaking the world record later on, as well as his work with Paul Radcliffe.Do not worry if YOU do not KNOW RIGHT NOW how to break your PB’s. Just try implementing some science in your OWN TRAINING today:https://hiitscience.com/courses/#all-courses

There is great potential for growth in understanding technical aspects of how we move ⚡ - this is where we currently have relatively little knowledge and application in exercise and sports science. Despite amazing progression in SPORTS TECHNOLOGY in the last decade, not everything is always this simple in daily training application 🙃!In our 9th episode, Martin talks to an expert in the area, Dr. Steve Barrett. Steve has a long history of working in football ⚽, with lots of experience in terms of training, performance analysis and monitoring 💻. Martin and Steve chat about everything in terms of sports tech: thinking, researching, planning, application, usage - SO MUCH 🛠️!Plus, some great insights into how it is important to work as an individual across the sports “industry” ⚙️, science 🧪 and application 👍.Instead of not knowing and guessing what intervals you should do next, apply all the science RIGHT NOW:https://hiitscience.com/courses/#all-coursesWhat is your favorite SPORT TECH out there?

A lot of work and dedication goes into being an athlete, but Dan, the HIIT Science author and lecturer of both Rowing and Triathlon chapters, shares with us his journey from athlete, to sport science student and all the way to EXPERT sport scientist… and now - world leading COACH 😇!In our 8th episode, Paul and Dan discuss some powerful topics⚡, especially around application of HRV, the best way to use low carb diets, how doing something is always better than nothing ✔️, as well as how important it is to “learn” the sport first as a sports scientist 😊!Along with some extra stories of how their bromance ❤️ developed as well.This episode is a throwback to a previous project Dan and Paul did together : Plews & Prof https://www.plewsandprof.com/ Have more questions about HIIT? You want them ALL ANSWERED?! Sweet, we got you covered:https://hiitscience.com/courses/#all-coursesToday’s speakers:Prof. Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.comDr. Daniel Plews https://www.endureiq.com/ _____________________ References:Plews DJ, Laursen PB, Stanley J, Kilding AE, Buchheit M. Training adaptation and heart rate variability in elite endurance athletes: opening the door to effective monitoring. Sports Med. 2013 Sep;43(9):773-81. doi: 10.1007/s40279-013-0071-8. PMID: 23852425. John J. Ratey & Eric Hagerman (2008). Spark. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/721609.Spark