MSC Performance Podcast

In todays episode, Mark, Luke and Max discuss the importance of strength training amongst endurance runners / endurance athletes and the appropriate training methods for these populations. Hope you enjoy!

Max and Luke discuss a variety of questions that have been asked during their work week. A few of the questions answered are: How to train around injuries, aggressive dieting vs non-aggressive, managing your microcycle to keep your high days high and low days low, Lukes opinion on SBD days, and optimal training vs compound training and why you should avoid black and white thinking.

In todays episode, Mark and Max have a debrief on the recent metcon games, and a fun chat about different varieties of training such as powerlifting, calisthenics, hyrox and many more!

On today's episode, Kitti and Avital share their love for the Netflix series Physical 100, then talk about some literature published and their own experiences of being a female in strength & conditioning.

Enjoy!

*Correction: the athlete mentioned at 3:46 is a mountain rescuer, NOT an ice rescuer

Please be sure to turn your volume down slightly at minute 4:08 as Kitti bursts out laughing.

In today's episode of the MSC Performance Podcast, we discuss multiple recovery strategies, including the main building blocks of nutrition and sleep, going into the intricacies of programming recovery into your training schedule, and other practices and supplements that can aid recovery, such as creatine or hot water immersion. We also briefly mention the differences between genders in terms of recovery.

We hope you enjoy this one as much as we did!

For the first episode of 2023, Mark, Luke and Max discuss some interesting topics revolving around the famous Veganuary and Dry January. They have a little chat about there own anecdotal stories linked to these two subjects as well as diving into the research done on them. Training performance, protein consumption and generic likability are some of the variables the lads chat about.

If any of you guys are participating in either of these occasions, please let us know your experiences. And of course, Happy New Year :)

Todays episode is a chat between Mark and Luke, reviewing their current training regimes, upcoming competitions, and how they are planning to train around the Christmas period. Also discussed is advice on how others can train around Christmas based on their goals, as well as nutritional advice for anyone on a de-load week, or a taper-week! Should we adjust calories or not? Should we make any drastic changes?

They also review MSC's 2022 and look forward to what's coming in 2023, as well as what they think the training 'trends' will be for next year.

We hope you enjoy the episode, and well see you again in 2023! Merry Christmas :-)