KoopCast

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Alan McCubbin, PhD.Today’s episode of the podcast is with sports scientist Alan McCubbin out of Melbourne Australia. Alan is a PhD as well as an accredited Sports Dietitian with a speciality in nutrition for endurance and ultra-endurance sports. He has worked as a practitioner for 15 years, founding his online business Next Level Nutrition in 2010 to consult to athletes via videoconference. His clients have included everyone from first time marathon runners to summer and winter Olympians and he also consults to Triathlon Australia's High Performance Program. He has also published a number of different research articles including a case study on the 2016 Marathon des Sables a recent position stand for sports dietician australia on nutrition for exercise in hot environments which we reference in this podcast. He is also a lecturer and researcher in sports nutrition at Monash University, where he completed a PhD studying the effect of dietary salt intake on sweat composition. You can find Alan and his work here- Twitter/Facebook·@nextlvlnut·@MonashNutrExerwww.nextlevelnutrition.com.au

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Stacy Sims and Stephanie Howe.Today’s episode of the podcast is with none other than Dr. Stacy Sims. For the last 20 years, Stacy has been relentlessly informing the sports science community that women are not small men, and this has been no easy task. Her latest pursuit in this endeavour includes a new on-line class all about women’s physiology that both my athletes and our coaches have taken. Her bestselling book ROAR has been a roadmap that women, coaches and athletes alkie can use to tailor exercise programming and nutrition specifically to the female physiology. Stacy is sought out lecturer, sports scientist as well as a kick ass endurance athlete. She is also a personal friend of mine and personally enlightened me on how I need to tailor my coaching principles for women. She has helped me tailor heat adaptation protocols for athletes and I will wholeheartedly admit that the rice ball recipe in Training Essentials for Ultrarunning was stolen from her. In this podcast we do a little bit of personal reflection, including some of her experiences in the sport of ultrarunning, as well as training and nutrition do’s and don’ts for female ultrarunners. And, to make sure I’m not just some dude opining on how women should train, I also brought on one of our coaches Stephane Howe to help illuminate the subject further with her experience as an athlete as well as a coach. We discuss the big differences between men and women in terms of training and nutrition for ultrarunning. We also discuss what training and nutrition strategies women should avoid. Links:Stacy’s Ted TalkStacy’s BookStacy Sims Website

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Josue Stephens.Josue is the director of Product Management at Spartan and he is responsible for the trail running branch of Spartan’s business. He is also a trail and ultrarunner himself and is the former race director of the Copper Canyons ultramarthon and Fuego y Aqua. Relevant stories on Josue- https://trailrunnermag.com/people/news/confusion-in-copper-canyon.htmlhttps://trailrunnermag.com/people/news/double-murder-and-drug-violence-lead-to-ultramarathon-cancellation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/sports/caballo-blanco-ultramarathon-is-canceled-over-threat-of-drug-violence.htmlSpartan TrailSpartantrail.com

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Stavros Kavouras.Dr. Stavros Kavouras is Assistant Dean and Professor of Nutrition at Arizona State University. He is the Director of the Hydration Science Lab where he is studying the mechanisms by which water intake impacts health and performance. Dr. Kavouras is the author of more than 130 peer review articles and he has given lectures in 29 countries. He is a section-Editor of the European Journal of Nutrition and Frontiers in Nutrition. Dr Kavouras is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine & the European College of Sports Science and elected member of the American Physiological Society and the American Society of Nutrition.

Joe Gray is one of the most accomplished trail runners in the world today. But his world was recently impacted by the tragic events of George Floyd’s death and the ensuing dialogue around race currently engulfing the country. Joe comes on the podcast to discuss his personal encounters with racism, what about the recent events has impacted him so deeply and what trail runners and non-trail runners alike can do. Joe’s Article on Trailrunner Magazine - https://trailrunnermag.com/people/no-change-in-silence.htmlGoogle Docs Link Referenced - https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR29fpxyG1AhASfCsJNCrmI-8aqhC4W_TJv5TY5ZHHNK4IklOJEQGbR8oPI&usp=gmailJoe’s Website -https://joegeezi.blogspot.com/

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Shawn Arent. Performance tests are abundant now a days and can range from blood monitoring services like Inside Tracker to FatMax testing and VO2max testing. But how do you make sense of it all and which tests are valuable for athletes? Shawn M. Arent, PhD, CSCS*D, FISSN, FACSM is Professor and Chair of the Department of Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina, which is currently the top-ranked program in the United States. He is also the Director of the UofSC Sport Science Lab. Prior to this, he was the Director of the Rutgers Center for Health & Human Performance. His research focuses on the relationship between physical activity and stress and the implications for health, performance, and recovery. Dr. Arent’s recent work has primarily focused on physiological responses to training-related stressors and their contribution to optimal performance and recovery. He was named the 2017 William J. Kraemer Outstanding Sports Scientist of the Year by NSCA. He is a fellow in ACSM and ISSN and is the current President of ISSN. Additionally, he has worked with teams in the NHL, MLB, the US Soccer Federation, and a number of teams at the youth, high school, and collegiate levels.@ShawnArentPapers Referenced:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28919842/?from_term=Shawn+arent&from_pos=2https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/Fulltext/2019/10000/Biomarker_Response_to_a_Competitive_Season_in.5.aspxDavid Clark's website- https://www.wearesuperman.comhttps://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of-david-clarkhttps://www.amazon.com/EAT-SH-DIE-Radical-Junkies/dp/1513662155

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Craig Sale.Professor Sale is a member of the Musculoskeletal Physiology Research Group, within the Sport, Health and Performance Enhancement (SHAPE) Research Centre.  He has spent over 20 years investigating the impact of exercise and nutrition on health and performance in humans, with a particular focus on the triggers for adaptations in bone and muscle. His publication record, including over 50 publications within the current REF period (since January 2014), provides evidence of a varied research background and wide-ranging expertise. He has worked and published in the areas of bone metabolism and health, muscle metabolism and performance, genetics, sports nutrition, broader human nutrition, biomechanics, cognitive function and environmental physiology. He is committed to delivering real world impact of significance and reach through his research, having experience of conducting research on a range of human participants, including elite level and recreational level athletes, military personnel and members of the general population. Professor Sale is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), Chair of the ACSM BONE Interest Group, Editor in Chief of Nutrition and Health, a Section Editor for the European Journal of Sports Sciences and a nutrition editor for the BASES Sport and Exercise Scientist.

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Nick Tiller. Nick was the lead author on the recent International Society of Sports Nutrition position stand- 'Nutritional considerations for single-stage ultra-marathon training and racing'.Nick Tiller is a researcher in exercise physiology and respiratory medicine at UCLA. He was born in London, England. Tiller holds Master’s and doctoral degrees in Human Applied Physiology, and is accredited as a physiologist with the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES). He writes on science, health, exercise, critical-thinking, philosophy, and ultra-marathon.​Website: www.nbtiller.comTwitter: @NBTillerPapers referenced:https://jissn.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12970-019-0312-9https://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/ijsnem/28/5/article-p480.xmlhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23011657/https://trainright.com/ultrarunning-international-society-sports-nutrition-position-stand/https://trainright.com/ultrarunning-international-society-sports-nutrition-position-stand-part2/

 In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with new ITRA president Bob Crowley. They discuss ITRA's role in trail running, the fact that ITRA is not well known in North American and what they are going to do to fix it. Also, some forecasting on what the future of trail running is with Spartan and Ironman coming into the sport. ITRAs website- https://itra.run/Spartan Trail Running- https://www.spartan.com/en/trailIronman's acquisition of Ultra Trail Australia- https://endurancebusiness.com/2018/industry-news/ultra-trail-australia-acquired-by-ironman/

In this episode of the KoopCast Coach Jason Koop speaks with Dr. Glen Davison on all things relating to exercise immunology. We discuss how nutrition exercise and working out hard impact immune function. Dr. Glen Davison is Reader and Director of Research in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Kent, where he also co-ordinates the Endurance Research Group. He attained his first degree in Sport and Exercise Sciences (Sheffield Hallam) in 2001, MSc in Exercise Physiology (Sheffield Hallam) in 2002, and PhD in Nutrition and Exercise Immunology (Loughborough University) in 2006. He spent five years at Aberystwyth University in Wales before joining the University of Kent in 2011. Glen is a BASESAccredited sport and exercise scientist (Physiology) and a Chartered Scientist (CSci). He has worked with amateur and professional athletes from a range of sports, including football (soccer), rugby, hockey, athletics, triathlon and cycling. Glen’s research interests include: Nutrition and exercise immunology; interval training; and strategies to maintain optimal health and performance in athletes. He is currently conducting a studies on variability in responses to caffeine (and the role of genetic variations).Glen at the University of Kenthttps://www.kent.ac.uk/sport-sciences/people/331/www.kent.ac.uk/sport-sciences/people/331/davison-glenPapers referenced- https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/10.1139/h11-033#.XqdFkpNKiXEhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734536/https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00622.2016