Performance Advantage Podcast

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Performance Advantage Podcast episodes

February 04, 2020 43 | Pro Ultra Runner Tom Evans
Tom Evans is a RebBull sponsored professional ultra runner form Great Britain. Tom is in Rotorua for the 2020 Tarawera Ultramarathon, so we sat down together to discuss training, sponsorship, social media, and the state of trail running.
Dr Will updates about his feelings before the biggest trail running race he's ever entered, the Tarawera Ultramarathon.
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1 hr 45 min
January 21, 2020 42 | Alcohol and Sports Performance with Dr Matt Barnes
Good race or bad race, we love to have a few drinks after a big event. As athletes, we have been known to apply our 'all or nothing' approach to alcohol consumption.
Dr Matt Barnes is a world renowned expert and pioneer of alcohol in sport research. He talks to us about what alcohol is doing to our bodies and how that relates to exercise performance.
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1 hr 23 min
January 14, 2020 41 | 6 Steps to a Successful Training Plan
Dr's Matt and Will talk trough how to use a six-step process to get athletes to the start line knowing that their preparation has ticked every box. When an athlete is confident in their preparation, they get to the finish line with a sense of accomplishment knowing that they did all they could during the lead-up and within the event to achieve their best performance.
Also in the the show, Dr Matt's brake powermeter secrets, Dr Will wins $200 by finishing 3rd at a half marathon, and releases a new YouTube Channel.
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1 hr 4 min
January 07, 2020 40 | How to Be The Best Athlete in 2020
There are a few small changes you can make to be the best version of yourself this year, and we show you the best things you can buy, eat and do to make it stick. We discuss World Cup rider Jolanda Neff’s injury and why it may have a silver lining, and offer a Strava Premium membership to one lucky member!
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1 hr 17 min
December 31, 2019 39 | Pro Tour Cyclist Robert Stannard
Robert Stannard rides for pro tour team Mitchelton Scott and happened to grow up in the same town that Matt and Will did their PhD's. In fact, Rob is the son of Dr Steve Stannard who supervised Matt and Will throughout their studies and appeared on episode 25.
Rob is 23 y/o and making a name for himself on the world tour as one of the future stars. Listening to Rob speak about how he manages himself to perform at his best is inspirational. Rob leaves no stone unturned on his quest to be the best athlete he can be.
Rob was kind enough to give us a signed Mitchelton Scott cycling jersey to giveaway to one lucky listener!!!
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1 hr 28 min
December 17, 2019 38 | Strava: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Strava, social media for endurance athletes. Last week, Matt crashed chasing a Strava KOM (King of the Mountain), and Strava released their annual report, so we thought we'd go through the pros and cons of using Strava.
There's no doubt Strava has a lot of great benefits, but the social media side of things can cause athletes to train for others rather than for themselves.
Will became a Dad!! Will talks about training and becoming a father in "Will's Training Report".
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1 hr 9 min
December 04, 2019 37 | Top 10 gifts for runners & our favorite interval sessions
This week we talk about our favorite intervals and the gifts you should and shouldn't buy for the athlete in your life. The brake power meter explores motocross, Will did another crazy run, and we give away a free training consultation worth $199!!!
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1 hr 11 min
November 26, 2019 36 | How To Monitor and Analyze Your Training
How much training did you do last week? Most people will answer in terms of time or distance. Unfortunately, time and distance are not the best indicators of training load. We discuss how using training stress score (TSS) on trainingpeaks or Relative Effort on Strava can help you to improve and avoid injury.
The international governing body of cycling, the UCI, have announced the “bike olympics” to be held in 2023, Glasgow, Scotland. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Matt updates about presenting at the Oceania Skills Acquisition conference, and Will reports on his training.
Prize winner! Congrats to J.C from Endurance Training Hub.

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1 hr 10 min
November 19, 2019 35 | What is Base Training and Why Do you Need It?
Base training is an old-school method for improving endurance performance. Matt and Will discuss whether this is still valid in the current day and if it can help high intensity performance. Alberto Salazar, legendary distance running coach and head of the now dismantled Nike Oregon Project is appealing his 4-year ban for doping violations. We give you an insight into the new school of doping for the world of sports science.

This is also the first week for podcast segments and a weekly prize competition for member-listeners.
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1 hr 10 min
November 06, 2019 33 | Pace Yourself to the Perfect Race
Pacing in endurance sport is one of the most essential aspects of performance. Regardless of your ability, if you start the race beyond your level of fitness you will slow down at the end. The severity of how much you slow down (blow up) will depend on the race duration and how far beyond your ability you went at the start.
We discuss different pacing strategies and how to implement them in your next training session or race.
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51 min