

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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Jun 8, 2022 • 53min
MORE FAT = MORE GAINS?! INDIVIDUAL Training in Team Sports?! Science, but WITHOUT Science?! - Recap Episode Part 3
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 Steve Tashijan elaborate quite a lot on its use in TEAM SPORTS!Furthermore, we cover the topics of individualization and how important it is to simply CARE about your athletes across every training session. Similarly, we also take a look at what our guests say on the concept of SCIENCE and its use in sport. Of course, we HAVE SOME SCIENCE for you if you are keen to not just learn, but APPLY it directly today!❣️ All our courses are as practical as it gets! ❣️https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/collections?category=science-sportIn this last summary we here from:Dan Plews https://www.endureiq.com/ Steve Tashijan https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2019/01/us-soccer-names-initial-members-of-us-mnt-technical-staff Ivi Casagrande https://www.ivicasagrande.com/ Joseph Coyne http://www.coynesportsinjuryclinic.com.au/ Darcy Norman https://www.darcynormanconsulting.com/⚠️In case you have NO CLUE how to IMPLEMENT SPEED TRAINING in your sport, we got a FULL WORLD CLASS SYSTEM FOR THAT ⚠️➡️➡️ https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/courses/maximalspeed ⬅️⬅️_____________________ Today’s speakers:Prof. Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/ Dr. Martin Buchheit https://martin-buchheit.net/ _____________________

May 31, 2022 • 1h 53min
Why Are the Norwegians Dominating Triathlon? Asking Questions & Systematically Looking For Answers with Olav Aleksander Bu
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 Norwegian program at the forefront of triathlon. There is so much to absorb in this EXTRA LONG 2 hour episode, especially after coming off Kristian Blummenfelt’s recent win at the St. George Ironman World Championships. The conversation includes detailed insight into different types of training for the Norwegian triple powerhouse that is dominating triathlon currently. In the 21st episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Olav have an in-depth conversation into how an athletes' profile can be very different from one athlete to the next, and therefore requires a highly individualized approach (that changes over time!). They also go into the evolution of high-end exercise science methods for chasing long-term improvements, as well as the relentless application of “the right” technology for the athletes.Fancy TRIATHLON and would like to implement sophisticated HIIT like Olav and his team? ➡️➡️ https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/bundles/science-application-of-hiit-triathlon ⬅️⬅️➡️➡️ https://athletica.ai/ ⬅️⬅️_____________________ Today’s speakers:Prof. Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/ Olav Alexander Bu https://www.linkedin.com/in/olav-bu/ _____________________

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May 26, 2022 • 50min
Polarized vs Threshold Training & Load vs Load Response - Recap Episode Part 2
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 this second part of our summary we get the best bits from:Antonio Gomez https://www.instagram.com/antoniogomez008/ Jamie Stanley https://www.sasi.sa.gov.au/news?a=33150 Alistair Brownlee https://thebrownleebrothers.com/Ivi Casagrande https://www.ivicasagrande.com/ Prof. Andrew Jones https://sshs.exeter.ac.uk/staff/profile/index.php?web_id=Andrew_Jones Dr Dan Plews https://www.endureiq.com/ Dr Steve Barrett https://uk.linkedin.com/in/steve-barrett-phd-spsci ⚠️In case you have NO CLUE how to IMPLEMENT SPEED TRAINING in your sport, we got a FULL WORLD CLASS SYSTEM FOR THAT ⚠️➡️➡️ https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/courses/maximalspeed ⬅️⬅️_____________________ Today’s speakers:Prof. Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/ Dr. Martin Buchheit https://martin-buchheit.net/ _____________________

May 18, 2022 • 44min
Sport Scientists & Coaches FINALLY AGREE: You NEED a Systematic Approach
Across different countries & sports, our guests appear to agree on “meta”-level aspects of working within high-performance sports.So here we are, putting it ALL together for you in our 19th episode of the Training Science Podcast. In it, Martin and Paul summarize their thoughts on the journey so far, and tease out commonalities (and differences) revealed across the episodes. One clear similarity guests discussed was related to how they use a systematic approach when it came to finding a programming puzzle solution on any given day of training.Systematic process that enables everyone to be ready to go and play ANY time! This does NOT come from just randomly allocating work across various domains, but rather from a PURPOSEFUL strategy that practitioners developed — both for team or individual based sports!Additionally, there were novel contributions in the area of strength training and its place in the world of team and endurance sports. While guests highlight their specific approaches, for many of them it became a TIME factor as well as a SPECIFICITY focus — for either, being highly efficient matters a lot in the busy schedules of professional sports.In this first part of our summary we get the best bits from:Darcy Norman https://www.darcynormanconsulting.com/ Antonio Gomez https://www.instagram.com/antoniogomez008/ Robert Stanley https://usacycling.org/team-usa/track Dr. Joseph Coyne http://www.coynesportsinjuryclinic.com.au/ Julio Tous https://es.linkedin.com/in/julio-tous-fajardo-822b887a Gil Orriols ⚠️Want FAST athletes?! WORRIED about overloading them with SPEED sessions?! STOP WORRYING & START our SPEED TRAINING COURSE!⚠️➡️➡️ https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/courses/maximalspeed ⬅️⬅️_____________________ Today’s speakers:Prof. Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/ Dr. Martin Buchheit https://martin-buchheit.net/ _____________________

May 10, 2022 • 1h 2min
Antonio Gomez on How RESPECT & CONFIDENCE Goes a Long Way in Football Training
Having respect for the work of others and the existing processes and procedures is a core value that all performance coaches and exercise and sports scientists must apply more in their practice. Antonio Gomez goes into depth on how he is adapting to big changes in moving from the European football/soccer world to the hype in South America!He also goes into the concept of coadjuvant training and how this allows for different training stimuli to be adequately adapted in younger players, olders players, and more skilled players, who have been loaded to varying degrees during the many games that you must play in South America.In our 17th episode of the Training Science Podcast, Martin and Antonio talk about the difference in football training between Europe and South America, how you may play 80 games within 8 months, in adjusting to new cultures, as well as quite a bit on coadjuvant training.⚠️REMINDER: IN CASE YOU WANT FAST ATHLETES - CHECK OUR SPEED COURSE⚠️➡️➡️ https://hiit-science.thinkific.com/courses/maximalspeed ⬅️⬅️_____________________ Today’s speakers:Dr. Martin Buchheit https://martin-buchheit.net/ Antonio Gomez https://www.instagram.com/antoniogomez008/ _____________________ References:Antonio Gómez, Eric Roqueta, Joan Ramon Tarragó,Francisco Seirul·lo and Francesc Cos (2019). Training in Team Sports: Coadjuvant Training in the FCB. https://revista-apunts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/013-025-138-ENG.pdfhttps://barcainnovationhub.com/the-coadjuvant-training-methodology-used-by-fc-barcelona/https://futbolrevolucionario.com/_____________________

May 3, 2022 • 1h 3min
Ivi Casagrande on How Players Don't Care How Much You Know, Until They Know How Much You CARE
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/ _____________________

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Apr 26, 2022 • 54min
Dr Joseph Coyne on Applying The Right Sprint Training to Maximize Speed For Your Athletes
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/ _____________________

Apr 18, 2022 • 54min
Gil Orriols on Bringing Other Elite Sports Methods into Football for Better Health and Performance
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 _____________________

Apr 11, 2022 • 1h 1min
From Athlete to Sports Scientist & Coach Extraordinaire with Jamie Stanley
‼️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 _____________________

Apr 4, 2022 • 1h 7min
Alberto Mendez-Villanueva on How Balancing Sport Science and Appreciating Context Is Key To Impacting Player Development
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