Endurance Planet

Intro Banter and Announcements: We have a bunch of new EP gear — including just-added men’s and women’s athletic tech T-shirts — for casual wear, kids and babies go over to our Gear page. Get your hands on some and send us a pic of you sporting the logo! Wanna run Ragnar SoCal with the […] The post ATC 298: The Most Common Injuries To Prevent Against, The Sub-2 Shoe Debate, MAF For Health vs. Performance, And More first appeared on Endurance Planet.

Sanjay Rawal is a filmmaker and runner. His most recent film is called 3100: Run and Become, which documents a small but mighty race in New York every year in which people spend nearly their whole summer running roughly 60 miles every day consecutively on a 1/2 mile block until they reach 3100 miles, taking […] The post Sanjay Rawal: A More Spiritual Approach To Running, and The Group in Queens That Runs 3,100 Miles Each Summer first appeared on Endurance Planet.

Welcome to episode 10 of Holistic Performance Nutrition featuring Coach Tawnee and Julie McCloskey, a certified holistic nutrition coach who you can find over at wildandwell.fit. Michael says: In Response to HPN 9 and Vegan Diets Hi Tawnee and Julie, As a long time listener to the show, I looked forward to a balanced, and […] The post HPN 10: Custom Race Fueling Options, Recovering From Rundown, and More On Choosing Your Optimal Diet first appeared on Endurance Planet.

Thorsten and Tawnee caught up the day after the 2019 Ironman World Championships to recap race highlights and take you through the record-breaking, awe-inspiring day! You can read more race review details and stats over at Thorsten’s website, trirating.com.   Men’s Top 5 Jan Frodeno Tim O’donnell Sebastian Kienle Ben Hoffman Cameron Wurf Women’s Top […] The post Kona Special: Race Recap of the 2019 Ironman World Championships with Thorsten Radde first appeared on Endurance Planet.

Intro Endurance Planet is opening up a second team for Ragnar! Email events@enduranceplanet.com if you’re interested. New moms are medaling at Worlds and men in their late 30s are breaking world records! These amazing feats shows that we’re learning how to take better care of ourselves as athletes and extending the limits of what we […] The post ATC 297: Preparing For Frigid Races, Fitness During Pregnancy, Long-Term Kona Goals, and More first appeared on Endurance Planet.

The Ironman World Championships take place on Saturday, Oct. 12, and on this episode we are here with Thorsten Radde of trirating.com (Twitter @ThRadde) for our official Kona preview. Grab a copy of Thorsten’s Kona Rating Report, which is nearly 200 pages of detailed athlete analysis and race info. Thorsten was also nice enough to […] The post Kona Special: 2019 Ironman World Championships Preview with Thorsten Radde first appeared on Endurance Planet.

  On this show, we welcome back coach Alan Couzens to dive into two new studies that endurance athletes will want to hear about, especially those who are prone to cramping and/or those racing in hot conditions. Check out Alan’s blog or follow him on Twitter. The studies discussed on this show include: The effect […] The post Alan Couzens: Revisiting Electrolytes and Cramping, and How Heat Affects Fat Oxidation Rates first appeared on Endurance Planet.

Intro: Tawnee did a 6K Xterra trail race! Holding back on the hill climb by walking allowed her to cruise for the rest of the race and win her age group. Google has changed their algorithm to downgrade functional and alternative medicine information. You’re going to have to look harder to get this information. Swim […] The post ATC 296: Six Swim-Specific Strength & Conditioning Exercises, Running with A Stroller, and More first appeared on Endurance Planet.

  Julie Moss is a Ironman triathlon legend whose 1982 crawl to the finish at the Ironman World Championships made sport history and inspired countless athletes to do a triathlon. Julie’s new memoir, Crawl of Fame: Fifteen Feet That Created an Ironman Triathlon Legend, is now available to the public and it is a very […] The post Julie Moss: The Crawl of Fame, and Finding Purpose and Personal Growth Through Sport first appeared on Endurance Planet.

Intro EP is taking runners for a second Ragnar team! Email events@enduranceplanet.com if you’re interested. Zach Bitter just set the world record for the 100-mile (with an average 6:48 mile pace!) Tawnee gratefully responds to a respectful listener critique of ATC 292 (regarding stereotypes and runner anxiety): Rachel wrote: Dear Tawnee, I’m a big fan […] The post ATC 295: Split Long Runs – Why and When Are They A Good Idea, Plus: Hamstring Healing, Bailing on Interval Workouts, and More first appeared on Endurance Planet.

  On this episode we’re joined by two legends of endurance sport, Dr. Phil Maffetone and six-time Ironman World Champion Mark Allen. Mark had a 15-year professional triathlon career in which he was coached by Phil starting in the 1980s. Working with Phil led to Mark discover the MAF Method, which he now uses for […] The post Mark Allen & Phil Maffetone: The Benefits of Having a Coach and MAF for Athletic Longevity first appeared on Endurance Planet.

Note: Tawnee and Lucho differ slightly from strict MAF in some ways. What they present in this podcast is based on their years of experience coaching athletes and seeing how these protocols play out in the real world. You can read Dr. Maffetone’s book to get the pure MAF details. MAF Basics: MAF = max […] The post ATC 294: MAF Method Guide – The Coaches Outline Everything You Need To Know For MAF Training first appeared on Endurance Planet.

Welcome to episode 9 of Holistic Performance Nutrition featuring Coach Tawnee and Julie McCloskey, a certified holistic nutrition coach who you can find over at wildandwell.fit. Intro Banter Tawnee’s vanlife adventures take them up the California coast, but they are putting full-time vanlife on hold for now. Julie just got finished hiking the Wonderland Trail […] The post HPN 9: Do Plant-Based Diets Risk Nutrient Deficiencies? Plus: Quercetin Benefits, and the Real Deal With Canola Oil first appeared on Endurance Planet.

Announcements We have a bunch of new EP gear for men, women, kids and babies over at enduranceplanet.com/gear. Get your hands on some and send us a pic of you sporting the logo! Wanna run Ragnar SoCal with the EP team? It’s April 3-4, 2020 and our team is almost full (but we can always […] The post ATC 293: Top 5 Exercises For An Explosive Mile, Achilles Bursitis, and Facing An Athletic Crossroads first appeared on Endurance Planet.

Announcements We have even more new EP gear (including baby onesies and kids t-shirts) over at enduranceplanet.com/gear. Our team for Ragnar SoCal on April 3-4, 2020 is quickly forming and we’re almost full (we can always do a second team). To get in email us at events@enduranceplanet.com. We’re also bringing back our EP newsletter so […] The post ATC 292: Is Your Stride Rate Helping or Hurting Your Run Economy? Plus: Boosting Neuromuscular Fitness, Safety in Numbers, and More first appeared on Endurance Planet.

  Intro Banter Julie shares about her sciatica, and despite the setback focusing on what she can do. Wonderland trail around Mt. Rainer. Can’t get down about injuries, there are lessons to be learned! Today’s topic on pregnancy: Pregnancy is a sensitive and emotionally-charged topic. The goal of this show is to help you decide […] The post HPN 8: Mindful Fertility, TTC, and Managing MTHFR and Folate Intake first appeared on Endurance Planet.

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Intro: Fitness, by Brock’s account, is broken into three categories: Movement: general motion plus mobility (think squatting to pick things up and reaching up to grab things from higher places, like what our ancestors did with foraging) Exercise: invented to fill the holes in our movement patterns Training: what we do in order to reach […] The post ATC 290: A Pain in the Heel, Books on Strength Training, Raising Your Heart Rate, Vegetarian MAF, and more! first appeared on Endurance Planet.

We’re joined by Brie Wieselman, a functional medicine practitioner from Santa Cruz, CA, who runs a successful online clinic with other clinicians serving patients all over the world. Brie specializes in gut health, hormones, and female health. Today she is taking a dive into the topic of endometriosis and adenomyosis, with tools on how to […] The post Brie Wieselman: Functional Healing For Endometriosis – The Role of Diet, Hormones, Gut Health and More first appeared on Endurance Planet.

  “Danny” asks: 1. So I wanna do a full Ironman in 2020.I’ve done 47 marathons so running endurance isn’t an issue. It’s the other two disciplines I can swim all day with a swim bouy, but the second I get rid of it in attempt to kick, my legs fall in the water as […] The post ATC 289: Sinking Legs During The Swim, Training For An Ironman On A Mountain Bike, Training For A 50K When You Don’t Have Trail Access Or Time and More! first appeared on Endurance Planet.