Ask Coach Stephanie

Ask Coach Stephanie

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Ask Coach Stephanie episodes

  • Podcast 51: Sex and Survival: How Endurance Athletes Can Optimize Both

    Coach Stephanie and Peter Defty from Vespa Power discuss the history of current nutrtion advice.  The advice is misleading and can be detrimental to athletes health.  Having self awareness and a health libido is a good indicator that the body is running properly.  Coach Stephanie belives that first a foremost, health should be the primary goal of an athlete and and secondary goal should be optimized performace.  With proper nutrtion and training, and athlete can have both.   

    46 min
  • Podcast 46: Coach Andre Obradovic's Inspiring Story from Fat to Fit to Ambasador
    Coach Stephanie discusses the life changing events that motivated Coach Andre Obradovic to change his diet and lifestyle.  The changes motivated Andre so much that he became a speaker, coach and ambassador for  the prestigous Noakes Foundation.  
    Andre has gone on to be one of Australia’s leading mindset, health and well-being coaches, it is my mission to inspire people to optimise every aspect of their life, whether that means taking control, working through personal challenges, climbing the corporate ladder, improving sporting performance, or simply living a healthier and happier lifestyle.
    43 min
  • Podcast 46: Coach Andre Obradovic’s Inspiring Story from Fat to Fit to Ambasador
    Coach Stephanie discusses the life changing events that motivated Coach Andre Obradovic to change his diet and lifestyle.  The changes motivated Andre so much that he became a speaker, coach and ambassador for  the prestigous Noakes Foundation.  
    Andre has gone on to be one of Australia’s leading mindset, health and well-being coaches, it is my mission to inspire people to optimise every aspect of their life, whether that means taking control, working through personal challenges, climbing the corporate ladder, improving sporting performance, or simply living a healthier and happier lifestyle.
    43 min
  • Episode 45: Scary Science with Carb Loading Advice
    Coach Stephanie chats with Paul Laursen discuss the information presented at the Endurance Coaching Summit.  Paul and Stephanie discuss concerns over some of the speaker's recommendations of a high carbohydrate diet for athletes.  

     

    Paul has a pretty impressive bio.  Paul Laursen leads the Performance Physiology Team at High Performance Sport New Zealand.  His role here is to oversee physiological support for the national sporting organisations of New Zealand. He supervises a number of AUT postgraduate students directly involved with these organisations, and the projects aim to provide research findings that have the potential to improve sport performance for our Olympic hopefuls.

     

    He has published over 100 refereed manuscripts in moderate-to-high impact exercise and sports science journals, and this work has been cited more than 3000 times.

     

    Here are the key references talked about in the show:
    http://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000047.full
    https://sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40798-016-0048-x

     

    The picture we referred to from the conference can be seen here:
    https://twitter.com/_Zen_Turtle_/status/756605239864750080


    If you want to train smart and race fast?  Work with Stephanie. One-on-one and group coaching. 

    31 min
  • Podcast 44: Holiday Down Time, Bringing the Body Back to Balance

    Coach Frank Sole and Coach Stephanie Holbrook discuss what to focus on during the holiday season.  This a perfect time on the off season to correct muscle imbalances, posture problems and set the foundation for training and racing with a balanced body.  

     
    This is also the time to rest the mind and discuss mental attitude during the off season.  
     
    Resources:  
    Supple Leopard by Kelly Starrett  
    Gray Cook 
    Paul Chek and the C.H.E.K. Institute
     
    If you want to train smart and race fast?  Work with Stephanie. One-on-one and group coaching.
    36 min
  • Podcast 43: Ultra Marathon Record Holder Zach Bitter Discusses Racing and Nutrtion

    It is an exciting day for Coach Stephanie when she can interview someone as cool and as accomplished as Zach Bitter.  Zach is an ultra marathon runner who broke the American Record for running 100 miles and the world record for the 12 hour distance.  Zach discusses the OFM Program, what is diet looks like and how he adjusts his nutrition to match his training.     

     
    FASTER Study with Jeff Volek
    GAPs Diet
    Weston A Price Foundation
    Beyond Good and Evil Article about organ meats
     
    If you want to train smart and race fast?  Work with Stephanie. One-on-one and group coaching.
    37 min

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