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On this first episode of Ask Evoke, join coaches Scott Johnston and Kylee Toth as they answer training questions submitted by members of the Evoke Endurance community.

To submit your own training questions for our coaches, send us a direct message on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evokeendurance/

Or email your questions to [email protected]

Join Evoke coach Larry Goldie for a conversation with Jeff Banks, with Aspect Avy. Aspect Avy is a new smart phone app created by Jeff and his partners, to help back country enthusiasts assess avalanche risk for the terrain they hope to cover.  

Learn More About The AspectAvy App At The Links Below:
https://www.youtube.com/@aspectavy
https://www.aspectavy.com/

Evoke Coaches Maya Seckinger and Scott Johnston sit down for a chat about training young athletes.  Along with being employee number 1 back at Uphill Athlete when she was in college and helping with bookkeeping Maya was one of Scott's cross country ski athletes from the time she was 13.  
Maya and Scott discuss the things they have learned as both young athlete and successful junior athlete coach.  They cover subjects ranging from age appropriate training methods to learning to fail.  They also answer a number of questions posed by our listeners.  

Scott Johnston is joined by two-time Olympian in cross-country skiing and fellow Evoke coach Ben Husaby. They cover Ben’s formative years, several shared adventures, use of muscular endurance prep for Ben’s 2nd Olympics, and how skate-skiing transformed cross-country skiing.

Evoke coach Kylee Toth is joined by professional free skier, and filmmaker, Nikolai Schirmer. They discuss Nikolai's experience of Evoke's training approach and how he is using these fitness gains to navigate the demands of his goals and skiing ambitions.

See more from Nikolai at the links below:
instagram.com/nikolaischirmer
https://www.youtube.com/@Nikolai_Schirmer

Join coaches Scott Johnston and Maya Seckinger for a deep dive into the history, evolution, and modern applications of aerobic base training. Learn about the theory and importance of training aerobic metabolism and how you can individualize your own training to meet your endurance goals.
Stay tuned for an in-depth article on this subject.

Links for show notes:  Zone setting

https://evokeendurance.com/setting-your-hear-rate-zones/

https://evokeendurance.com/our-latest-thinking-on-aerobic-assessment-for-the-mountain-athlete/

Back country skiing has experienced a huge surge in popularity over the last several years. Scott Johnston discusses the implications, and the issues, with Larry Goldie, an AMGA-IFMGA-Certified Mountain Guide based in the North Cascade Mountains.

Join Scott Johnston as he reflects on his experiences of the aging process as a life-long endurance athlete. Learn about the specific capacities that decline with age, and the parts of our physiology that remain highly trainable.

Larry Goldie is joined by professional climber, and mountain guide, Alan Rousseau. Over his career, Alan has managed to tackle some incredible personal alpine climbing objectives while balancing a career as a full-time mountain guide. Learn how Alan has approached his training, and how his training differs from those who have a more sedentary life-style outside of their training.  

Today is another edition of Evokecast's Summit Series. Here, coaches Larry Goldie, and Leif Whittaker do a deep dive on some of the most iconic peaks that we train many of our athletes to be ready to climb. Today's episode will focus on Mount Rainier, the giant of the Pacific Northwest.