

Training Science Podcast
Paul Laursen & Martin Buchheit
Your hosts of the Training Science Podcast, Martin Buchheit and Paul Laursen, take a weekly deep dive into the real world application of training science in the trenches.
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Nov 9, 2022 • 1h 3min
From Australia to Japan to Qatar and Back - Linking Coaches, Athletes and Yourself is KEY - with Dr Nick Poulos
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 changing WORK, LIFE and TRAINING environments between Qatar, Japan, Australia and Europe🤖 how to integrate yourself within a complex team of professionals, without loosing your own voice🆚 the difficulties to manage high-level qualified individuals within a performance team while a pandemic is going onTrying to ACCOMMODATE everyone’s NEEDS on your team while looking for the BEST 🏆 individual training to improve POWER & SPEED?Check out our POWER & GURU SPEED bundle that will make it EASY for you to IMPLEMENT SPEED TRAINING EVERY DAY! YES! Do something to be FAST every day!🚀 https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/bundles/power-speed-guru-bundle 🚀_____________________ Today’s speakers:Dr Martin Buchheit https://martin-buchheit.net/ Dr Nick Poulos https://twitter.com/PoulosNick _____________________

Nov 2, 2022 • 1h 4min
Tennis AND Football Are More SIMILAR Than Different -> You Need To BE CONSISTENT Every Single Week To Build Robustness- with Dr Yann Le Meur
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 (cue GPS 📡 !),🆚 What similarities and differences exist between tennis, football and endurance sports when dealing with athletes?The guys also talk a lot on how to ensure you take EVERY CHANCE 📅 you can in training when working off a busy schedule!Want to STOP TAKING CHANCES on your CONDITIONING and INTERVAL TRAINING?Finally looking for some WINS 🏆in training?You really should check out our KICKASS COURSES!🚀 https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/collections?category=science-sport 🚀_____________________ Today’s speakers:Dr Martin Buchheit https://martin-buchheit.net/ Dr Yann Le Meur https://ylmsportscience.com/ _____________________

Oct 26, 2022 • 1h 11min
Pearls of Speed & Power Development from a 30-year Veteran Coach - with Stuart McMillan
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 Stuart discuss a lot about how to work as an APPLIED coach, the ins and outs of whether SCIENCE and COACHING ideas come first or second, as well as an array of specific topics includingHow to get your athletes to apply force for optimal power and speed generationStrength training, yey or ney?The underwhelming use of eccentric training and the opportunities for our field to grow in this space, and How all of our current practices depend on the current “industry” trends and our own biases.Remember:We’ve got a NEW POWER & SPEED GURU bundle that will help you ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION about how to make your athletes FASTER 🏆 !🚀 https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/courses/everything-anaerobic-speed-and-power 🚀_____________________ Today’s speakers:Prof. Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/ Stuart McMillan https://twitter.com/StuartMcMillan1 _____________________ References:https://altis.world/

Oct 19, 2022 • 1h 7min
SELF SCIENCE with Dr Craig Duncan: Know and Manage Yourself First to Lead as a True Leader
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 and conditioning, fitness, injury prevention, and all the other physical capacities mattering a lot, but we are also forgetting the key point:We are humans looking after humans 🥰In our 39th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Craig discuss ♻️ what it takes (in terms of your OWN HEALTH) to be a sustainable human in the area of sports and performance, 🦸🏻♂️ how leaders should be behaving and organizing themselves, as well as the people they are looking after, 🙌 and several other insights around implementing exercise and sports science from a human and interpersonal level. Want to be a LEADER that NEVER questions themselves when programming conditioning pieces? Well, we’ve got a world-class SYSTEM for you that covers EVERYTHING you will ever need to know about HIIT!🚀 https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/collections?category=science-sport 🚀_____________________ Today’s speakers:Dr Martin Buchheit https://martin-buchheit.net/ Dr Craig Duncan https://drcraigduncan.com.au/ _____________________ References:Martin’s https://egoalsbook.com/ Craig’s https://www.booktopia.com.au/self-science-craig-duncan/book/9781922452948.html _____________________

Oct 12, 2022 • 1h 4min
Autonomy Supportive Coaching Allows Athletes to Own Their Pathway to Performance - with Dr Israel Halperin
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 everyoneIn our 38th Episode of The Training Science Podcast Martin and Israel discuss this strongly applied 🏋️♂️ 🏂🏻 type of work in exercise and sport science🧑🏻🔬, how Israel tries utilizing simplified methods 😇 for coaches and teams that ain’t got any fancy gear, as well as the importance of really understanding what and how perceptive measures 🤗 can be and should be used in the field.If you want TO FEEL like you KNOW EXACTLY WHEN to do WHAT type of HIIT, we got a WORLD CLASS SYSTEM for you that will deliver results for your athletes no matter what sport 🏆 !🚀 https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/collections?category=science-sport 🚀_____________________ Today’s speakers:Dr Martin Buchheit https://martin-buchheit.net/ Dr Israel Halperin https://twitter.com/Israel_Halperin & https://adams-sports.tau.ac.il/Halperin _____________________

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Oct 5, 2022 • 1h 22min
Anaerobic, Metabolic, Mechanical or What?! How Maximal Repetitive Speeds are NOT What You Think They Are - with Prof Peter Weyand
“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 basic exercise science history, how Peter got to work with cheetahs, rhinos, horses AND humans, in an extremely unique place to uncover all sorts of characteristics of human locomotion. A whole lot of geeky insights into HOW and WHY we can or cannot go fast, but also a collection of anecdotes, analysis and comments on up to date topics like power meters in running, or force-velocity-curve based training. VERY LAST CHANCE FOR OUR:⚡SCIENCE & APPLICATION OF THE ANAEROBIC SPEED AND POWER RESERVE⚡LAST CHANCE to GET INTO one of the WORLD’s FIRST courses about this UNIQUE and MISS UNDERSTOOD area 🏆 !🚀 https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/courses/everything-anaerobic-speed-and-power 🚀_____________________ Today’s speakers:Prof. Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/ Andrew Wiseman https://twitter.com/Dr_Weyand _____________________

Sep 28, 2022 • 1h 5min
The Self Managing Athlete: How to Build Autonomy for Better Health and Performance - with Andrew Wiseman
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: everything from how to organise your training when you have little to no resources and need to rely on a lot of “sub”-optimal scheduling, how to work around extremely tight schedules and still hit individualized targets, all the way to how the mental aspects and out of game lifestyle factors are essential to be READY for training, along with when you might need to pull back.LAST WEEK FOR OUR:⚡SCIENCE & APPLICATION OF THE ANAEROBIC SPEED AND POWER RESERVE⚡LAST CHANCE to GET INTO one of the WORLD’s FIRST courses about this UNIQUE and MISS UNDERSTOOD area 🏆 !🚀 https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/courses/everything-anaerobic-speed-and-power 🚀_____________________ Today’s speakers:Dr Martin Buchheit https://martin-buchheit.net/ Andrew Wiseman https://twitter.com/MrWiseyMan _____________________

Sep 21, 2022 • 52min
High Tech in High Perf Sports: High burden, Low Impact? - with Dr Mathieu Lacome
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 friend Dr Mathieu Lacome about building a data driven system in team sports, how relevant the “new” technological solutions are, as well as how best to make use of such a system when generating and analyzing reports. REMEMBER:⚡SCIENCE & APPLICATION OF THE ANAEROBIC SPEED AND POWER RESERVE⚡That ENDLESS speed that you are seeking your athletes is not LIMITED by what you think it is. To SUCCEED in the DAILY GRIND OF METABOLIC training, you can USE THE ANAEROBIC RESERVE TODAY 🏆 !🚀 https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/courses/everything-anaerobic-speed-and-power 🚀_____________________ Today’s speakers:Dr Martin Buchheit https://martin-buchheit.net/Dr Mathieu Lacome https://twitter.com/mathlacome

Sep 15, 2022 • 1h 13min
Even a CHAOTIC Sport Can Figure Out Their TRAINING SCIENCE, so You CAN TOO - with Dr Duncan French
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. 🌄!In the 34th episode of the Training Science Podcast, Paul chats to Duncan about how he works within the new, up and coming, and often chaotic environment of combat sports in the MMA area. Everything from demand assessments, athlete support, as well as tech implementation gets covered.REMEMBER:⚡SCIENCE & APPLICATION OF THE ANAEROBIC SPEED AND POWER RESERVE⚡ALL YOUR QUESTIONS for how to perform REPEATED EFFORTS WITHOUT FATIGUE ANSWERED 🏆 !🚀 https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/courses/everything-anaerobic-speed-and-power 🚀_____________________ Today’s speakers:Prof. Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/ Dr Duncan French https://twitter.com/DuncanFrench

Aug 30, 2022 • 1h 10min
You CAN’T Have Your FTP, CP or Aerobic Power & SPRINT with it too - with Dr Dajo Sanders
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 of different capacities 🎯. Enter — the need to know your cyclist’s anaerobic power reserve (APR).In the 33rd episode of the Training Science Podcast, Paul and Dajo lay out how coaching and training in cycling is highly driven by technology (due to the “little” advantage of power meters🔋), how that can be both a good and maybe not so good thing, what is VLMAX 📈 and is there any value it, PLUS they give LOADS of insight into our new course:⚡SCIENCE & APPLICATION OF THE ANAEROBIC SPEED AND POWER RESERVE⚡EVERYTHING you did not know you NEED for DEVELOPING FAST, POWERFUL AND FATIGUE RESISTANT ATHLETES 🏆 !🚀 https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/courses/everything-anaerobic-speed-and-power 🚀_____________________ Today’s speakers:Prof. Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/ Dr Dajo Sanders https://twitter.com/DajoSanders