You NEED MORE ⏰ TIME! More TIME BREATHING really hard 🌬️! Ingvill Odden wants you to understand that YES✅, we can say with more certainty now that the more time you spend at VO2max, or at least the higher percentage of VO2max you are at during your HIIT, the greater your performance outcomes will be. Plus, if you are struggling, start with SHORTER …

So you WANT to be AERO🚀? You sure that is the BEST 🥇 for YOU RIGHT NOW?! David Wadsworth wants you to understand that going full crazy on low handlebar settings, crazy positions, UGLY bent backs 😵‍💫, and all the other overpriced AERO trends is unlikely to be the BEST solution for you. In the 135th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and D…

How many LEVELS of SCALED drills do you have in YOUR rehab process 🧐 ? Dr Simon Harries wants you to understand that it is non-negotiable to SCALE down ⤵️ GAME specific drills that will slowly reintroduce the injured players into team specific training. In the 134th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin @mart1buch and Simon discuss: 🤹‍♂️ …

TEAM sports require INDIVIDUALS to be considered first, but at the same time you NEED to make TEAM COHERENCE 🎯 work. Dr Garrison Draper wants you to understand that you need to put EXTRA effort 💪 in to remember daily that your PLAYERS are who matter the most. That you need to look after them 🚀 while making it all fit together within your team. In t…

Do you CARE enough about your ATHELTES to try to LEARN more about their abilities, problems & POTENTIAL SKILL ISSUES 📢? Dr Jason Weber wants you to understand that sometimes we do TOO little just to SPEED things up. Patience ⏳ is not only important for ELITE athletes that are massive assets, but for anyone who is training for any level of sports. I…

COLLECTIVE flow - are you in it to win it 🏆?! Dr Matt Dubin wants you to understand that “going together” is one of the highest states of elation 🚀 us humans can achieve - even if that means that we need to cut our own INDIVIDUAL preferences a bit shorter sometimes. In the 131st episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin @mart1buch and Matt di…

Stay for a while AND BUILD 🧱 the THING! Dr Teena Murray wants you to understand that “the next step” is not always a “change”. You cannot get IN-DEPTH skills, knowledge and COACHING ⚙️ understanding if you are NEVER fully committed to supporting one set of individuals for while. In the 130th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin @mart1buc…

In the SPORTS and COACHING industry you might not find that many people with NUANCED and BALANCED approaches to problems 🤔💭 Dr Neil Gibson wants you to understand that whether you come from research or another DETAIL oriented discipline that cares about taking your time with assorting information and making a conclusion, you have 🏆 AMAZING skills! …

So you THINK SINGLE LEG jumps are all the HYPE 🦵🏼 ? Dr Daniel Cohen wants you to understand that DOUBLE and SINGLE leg jumps have not only DIFFERENT metrics, but these also give different VALUE 🤑! In the 128th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Dan discuss: 😴 Assessing FATIGUE; 1️⃣🆚2️⃣SINGLE vs DOUBLE leg jumps; ❤️ EARNING simplici…

MEASURING an OUTPUT 📊 is all cool and EXCITING - but, do YOU KNOW HOW YOU GOT IT?! Dr Daniel Cohen wants you to understand that there are not shortcuts when it comes to FULLY UNDERSTANDING movements, loading or athlete profiles you need to DIG 🚀 into some details! NO SHORTCUTS! In the 128th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Dan di…

MUSCLES are only good for SPORTS, bodybuilders & fitness freaks? NOPE 🚧! Dr Johannes Burtscher wants you to understand that EXERCISE and MUSCLES produce amazing signal molecules that have DIRECT benefits for EVERYTHING in your body. And if you are STOPPING ⛔ that, you are majorly HANDICAPPING your WHOLE LIFE 🥺! In the 126th episode of the Training …

DATA THIS data THAT! MEASURE measure? Just SIMPLIFY 🤡! But, do you KNOW what to do NOW?! Martin and Paul want you to understand that “just” SCRATCHING the surface of training methods is not only suboptimal, but may even be dangerous in the long run 💀. In the 125th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Martin discuss: ❤️ how to get the M…

Performance PASSPORT 🪪 owned by the ATHLETES! Dr Ben Smith wants you to understand that EVERYONE ✅ can benefit from taking good care of individual’s personal performance and medical data. In the 124th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Ben discuss: ⚖️ BALANCING real-life sports data & the academic collaboration; 🔥 Athletes OWNING t…

IMPLEMENT new exercises and movements into your motion analysis 🔥 WITHIN HOURS! Steven Webster wants you to understand that it is ABSOLUTELY possible to create new exercise variations or whole body movements that can be captured, recognized and coached, within a very short time frame 💪🏻. In the 123rd episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul an…

There are ALWAYS opportunities to TEACH 🧠 something - training is not a one-way street! Vern Gambetta @coachgambetta wants you to understand that you NEED to include your athletes in the decision process, but make sure that is also a TEACHING process. In the 122nd episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Vern discuss: 🌐 how to IDENTIFY, AD…

HEAT acclimation ain’t just good for HOT 🔥 weather - it MAKES you FITTER! Prof. Chris Minson wants you to understand that although heat ACCLIMATION is essential for performance in hot environments, it is also useful for HEAPS of other uses - including just plain old PERFORMANCE! In the 121st episode of The Training Science Podcast, Chris and Paul d…

Jens Voet wants you to understand that what is PLANNED will not always MATCH what is EXECUTED⚖️ . While short-term this could be just fine, but perhaps this is not such a good thing in the long run. Work on that COACH-ATHLETE relationship and do some sound monitoring to know when things are going wrong 🌡️. In the 120th episode of The Training Scien…

The biggest weapon ⚔️of SELF DESTRUCTION? YOUR STRENGTHS! Iñaki de la Parra wants you to understand that YOU can be your WORST enemy 🔫, especially if you are only focused on the thing you LIKE. There is an inherent danger of overdoing what comes easy to us. Find someone you can trust, to HELP YOU! In the 119th episode of The Training Science Podcas…

You think supplements are only good ONCE 🤔💭 you have dialed in everything else? Well… THINK AGAIN! Dr Jose Antonio would like you understand that if you are LACKING in various parts of your training and/or food department, then it is likely that you will 📢 BENEFIT EVEN MORE by taking protein, caffeine and creatine. And if not: NO WORRIES, just stop…

So, how many AVOCADOS 🥑 do you eat?! Christian Meier wants you to understand that EVERYTHING in life is about BALANCE. You cannot just push into ONE direction of training, nutrition or anything else without encountering downsides that WILL impact your sport and life. In the 117th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Christian discuss: …

Are you ACTIVELY 🔥 developing your people for the REAL WORLD 🌎? Dr Steve Ingham @ would like you to make SURE that you are SYSTEMATICALLY જ⁀➴ working towards the PROGRESS of your staff, trainees, students, interns etc. in REAL WORLD working skills. From the very start the EXPECTATIONS should be know to them! In the 116th episode of The Training Sci…

Profiling and training SPEED🏎️ individually might be 30% (!!!) of any SPRINTING performance - get ON IT! Prof. Dr. JB Morin would like you to consider that if you do not cover, train or assess the WHOLE SPECTRUM of what your athletes can or cannot do, then you are likely leaving BIG 💥💨 gains on the table. Does 30% matter to you? In the 115th episod…

PROTECT 💪 your coach for everything that you possibly can - it is WORTH IT! James Bunce wants you to understand that you NEED ✅ the coach and the coach NEEDS YOU✅. Be there for them as much as you can, so that you can build a long-term relationship. In the 114th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and James discuss: 🚀 How HELPING TO PER…

Are you ❗PUSHING❗ your abilities & fitness with … methods you NEVER😱 tried before?! Svein wants you to understand that to reach IMPROVEMENTS year after year, pretty much in any sport you need to be willing to EXPERIMENT. Trial and error might be the very best approach ✅ for any new “thing” or training plan. In the 113th episode of The Training Scie…

Do NOT LEAD with your EMOTIONAL COMMITMENT to IMPROVEMENT 🚀! Dan Howells wants you to understand that communication and problem-solving TOGETHER come before any actual solutions. If you think you have recognized SOMETHING WRONG, take several steps back first 👣. In the 112th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Dan discuss: 📖 how you ca…

So you THINK you are USING BIG & IMPORTANT 👨🏼‍💻 data? How about JUST showing up ✔️? Jake Schuster wants you to understand that the best KPIs might be rather on the SIMPLE end of the spectrum. Have you ever considered how often you just SHOW UP for the “BIG STONES” in your training? In the 111th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Jake…

HONESTY 😇, OPENNESS and CLARITY are CENTRE 🎯 at any new team “MERGER”! Chris Domogalla wants you to understand that whether you are coming with a manager and coaching staff into a new team, or just as an individual on the performance staff, you need to prioritize LETTING YOUR GUARD down, being OPEN, HONEST, and very CLEAR 💯 about where you are comi…

SPORT and TRAINING is 💖 EMOTION! Dr Marco Cardinale wants you to understand that you need to be EMOTIONALLY connected to the PEOPLE you are working with. They are NOT machines, and every emotion that you could possibly imagine are going on inside of them. And remember that you are ALLOWED to have them too. It is rather a 🎯 STRENGTH of our field ove…

Getting MORE 💪 done with the sessions you are already doing! Frank Kuhn wants you to understand that you can LOTS 🏆 done as a professional team in ONE DAY. There is no “MUST train 2x/day”. In the 108th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Frank discuss: 💪🏽 Coach-coach relationship - especially between specialists and the head coach. …

PEOPLE 🎯 are the BIGGEST super weapon of your team - NOT TECH! Stephanie Mocks wants you to understand that you need to BUILD TRUST in PEOPLE and their SKILLS - although some cool gadgets and toys are useful in exercise and sport science, you cannot work with your team if they are an “extension of yourself”. In the 107th episode of The Training Sci…

Sometimes it may be GOOD to feel SLOW & BAD 😬! Hard training should not all be flowers, ponies & “smart” tools. Phil Sesemann wants you to understand that it is OK to feel tired and keep training. If you are doing HEAPS of long or hard sessions, at some point in the next few weeks it will get harder. But you will rebound 🚀 if you structure your tra…

START right in the middle of NUTRITION & FOOD 🌮🍕🥪! Gordo Bryn wants you to understand that there is a significant difference between what WORKS FOR YOU as a normal, or even average, human being - and what works on the fringes. Remember that there are such things as OUTLIERS. In the 105th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul & Gordo discuss…

Are you a TALL POPPY 🌹? Or more of a small ego 😎? IT MATTERS! David Lipman wants you to understand that it is a necessity to adjust your attitude, language and behavior as a coach or consultant depending on WHERE you are - the culture of each place has very specific and SUBTLE KEY aspects that you need to consider. In the 105th episode of The Train…

Movement assessment with your EYES 👀 - maybe NOT THE BEST IDEA?! Christopher Chapman wants you to understand that your eyes are NOT THAT good at analyzing movement. When you are looking at large measurement errors through your eyes, you want to make sure to have other tools and processes in place to get around that. In the 103rd episode of The Trai…

What is 👉THIS for? What is THAT👈 for? HOW are you ENGAGING your players?! Anthony Couderc wants you to consider that you ALWAYS need to EXPLAIN with patience WHY your athletes are doing what you are asking them to do. As long as it has APPLICATION for their sport, they will likely happily do it 💯- they just need to know! In the 102nd episode of The…

ALL TRAINING is a POTENTIAL THREAT! What are YOU 😲 going to do about it?! Scott Livingston wants you to understand that in the context of neurology, all types of INPUTS could be PERCEIVED as DANGER to your athletes - they do not need to be injured for it either. In the 101st episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Scott discuss: 🧊 The PRO…

HOLY MOLY! ONE HUNDRED EPISODES 🤩! Find out what Martin & Paul think the HIGHLIGHTS ✨ were so far! Thank YOU to all LISTENERS & GUESTS ❤️! It would not be possible to continue without YOU. We enjoy these talks so much, and hope that everyone listening gets at least ONE tidbit for themselves per episode. In the 100th episode of The Training Science …

What is the MEANING & ROLE of RUNNING 🏃‍♀️ in FOOTBALL?! Raymond Verheijen wants you to understand that you need to FIRST build a basic outline of the CORE factors that make the game of football happen - and RUNNING is just a symptom ✅ of EVERYTHING else you do in football. In the 99th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Raymon disc…

EVERYTHING is connected! Working TOGETHER will always result in a NET WIN-WIN-WIN! Especially at high level FOOTBALL ⚽! Johan Lundberg-Svensson wants you to understand that COMMUNICATION and COLLABORATION between different levels of TEAMS, coaches & organizations is ESSENTIAL ✅ for success - and NOT JUST for “smaller” football countries. In the 98t…

RESPONSIBILITY, AGENCY and CHOICE 🤔 - essential for your players! Can also WORK for strength & conditioning! João Ribeiro wants you to understand that even for SPRINT sessions you can give the CONTROl and CHOICE back to your players - they will likely pick right ✅ for the day! In the 97th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and João dis…

IMAGINE ALL the things you would like to MEASURE 👉🏼 before, during and after training? How MANY sensors would you need for ASSESSMENT AND TRAINING? Dr Martin O’Reilly wants you to understand that even if you just find A BIT of OBJECTIVE 💯 data, you can have MASSIVE GAINS 👌 to your training - ESPECIALLY for all the strength and conditioning work tha…

WOMEN as coaches, trainers or sport scientists need to be 💪🏼 TOUGH?! Maria Burova wants you to consider that sometimes it can be an ADVANTAGE 🔥 to be more EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT, to LISTEN MORE and navigate GENTLY within professional sports. In the 95th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Maria discuss: 💪🏽 how to START in the SPORT…

HYPOXIA does NOT work for you? ARE YOU SURE?! Dr Iñigo Mujika wants you to understand that there is much more than its1999 Tour de France pretending that all that matters is hemoglobin mass! In the 94th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Paul and Iñigo discuss: 💪🏽 HEAT adaptation and how you can make it work IN ONLY 2 WEEKS; 🤸 all the ATHLETE…

If you are NOT CLEAR on what YOU WANT as a PERFORMANCE TEAM, you will run into COMMUNICATION ISSUES! Shane Malone wants you to understand that the TEAM BEHIND THE TEAM must also work as an actual TEAM! Make sure that you are working together with all parties, INCLUDING THE COACH to get where you need to go. In the 93rd episode of The Training Scien…

PLAY needs to be PART of your STRENGTH & CONDITIONING - YES, you read that correctly 🤓! Erin Carson wants you to understand that a lot of sports (especially LINEAR endurance sports) require us to continuously repeat the same patterns over and over again. And then you go and give the SAME LOAD to your athletes again in the gym?! Yeah, nah. In the 92…

Running on angles, curves or CHANGING directions requires BIG force! You need to prepare for that SPECIFICALLY! Andrew Gray would like you to understand that there are large differences between the various degree of curves and angles that you may be running at. And if you are doing full 180 degree turns or changes of direction, then they’ll be EVEN…

There is only SO MUCH 🤔 you can do every day as a COACH or ATHLETE - but what is your NET PERFORMANCE IMPACT ✔️? Dr Ben Sporer, author of @outputbook, wants you to understand that you CANNOT get EVERYTHING 📋 done to perfection in all time frames, and then magically expect “performance” to happen. Now, to avoid overthinking and overdoing, it is esse…

DEBRIEF and REFLECT as much as you can - but START with what went REALLY WELL 👍🏼! Dr David Joyce wants you to understand that people are generally somewhat SCARED of feedback. So, especially for the LEADERS 👨🏻‍💼 out there, model it yourself for everyone else. Ask what went well, ADMIT where you messed up, and ASK for help 🙌. In the 89th episode of …

“BEST” practice likely does not exist - not only is there MANY ways to design training, but athletes are also PEOPLE 😊, and their life will change their training DAILY! Prof Billy Sperlich wants you to understand that any system 🌐 you might design, independent of what training intensity distribution or philosophy it follows, will always fail to mee…

COMMUNICATION 💬 is the key to most aspects of successful coaching in SPORTS - BUT HOW?! Prof Igor Jukić wants you to understand that communication should be centered around a mindset of 3 pillars: EMPATHY , ego control 😈 and DIPLOMACY (aka soft skills). In the 87th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and Igor discuss: 📅 how small and “p…