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Episode overview:

Frederic Sabater Pastor is a CTS ultrarunning coach with a PH.D. in Exercise Physiology and experience coaching athletes for a variety of challenges. He is also a Postdoctoral researcher at the Inter-university Lab of Human Movement. His area of focus are  running, trail, performance, physiology and fatigue.

Episode highlights:

(32:02) Training differences: road runners 20 hrs/week, trail runners 10 hrs/week, road runners cross train and strength train more, overall road volume is double despite race duration being up to 10x less

(37:11) Why are trail runners stronger: do runners self-select, is trail running innately better strength training, strength training is a broad term

(51:38) Specificity of running economy: train for specificity, changing protocols from road training, strides over technical terrain, differences in strength training

Additional resources:

Frederick’s paper  

Trail Runner Magazine’s coverage of this paper

Fred’s CTS Coach Bio

Fred’s Researchgate profile

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