What's the secret to maintaining a highly active training lifestyle?

Leearning how to manage your training load. What do we mean? What does this look like?

Tune in to this episode to find out more.

(00:00) Podcast Introduction (00:40) Why Training Load Matters (01:36) The Template Trap (02:32) Overtraining and Breakdown (03:24) What Makes Training Sustainable (04:37) Can You Say No (06:29) Real Personalization vs Marketing (08:00) Adjusting Sessions to Real Life (08:35) Coach Check Ins and Nonlinear Progress (09:33) Chronic Fatigue Warning Signs (10:43) Find Your Training Threshold (11:48) Audit Your Week Holistically (12:30) Adjust Sessions To Thrive (13:10) Coach Feedback Loop (15:09) Break The Boom Bust Cycle (16:10) Why Touchpoints Matter (19:49) Ego Driven Programs Trap (21:27) Build Long Term Behaviors

When you're working towards a goal - be it to overcome an injury or achieve a particular result or time, you naturally want to do everything possible for a successful outcome. But many endurance athletes innocently hinder their progress by making some simple mistakes in their weekly training program. Listen in to find out how to avoid this mistake and maximise the sessions that really matter.

(00:00) Podcast Intro (00:40) Key Sessions Matter (02:22) Stop Diluting Training (03:35) Earn The Intensity (05:39) Warmup And Fueling (08:27) Freshness Prevents Injury (08:58) Make Hard Days Standalone (10:28) Strip Back The Noise (13:39) Compounding Weekly Wins (14:31) Wrap Up And Contact

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Behaviours, routines and mental skills that are just part of our day to day life, can be hugely beneficial at times of injury, illness or setback. But having the ability to call on these skills at challenging times can transform the way you cope both mentally and physically. Listen in as Kriss shares a very current and honest account of the skills he's calling upon personally to get him through his recent cancer diagnosis and treatment journey.

(00:00) Podcast Intro (00:40) Personal Health Update (02:26) Chemo Reality Check (03:26) Training Mindset Framework (04:27) Coping With Low Days (06:05) Recovery Habits In Action (07:21) Food Aversion Workarounds (08:40) Injury Mindset Lessons (09:23) Double Down on Recovery (10:01) Return to Training Safely (10:39) Recovery Is Active (11:10) Purpose and Daily Routine (11:57) Flip the Narrative (13:25) Practice What You Preach (14:39) Facing Treatment Anxiety (15:14) Why the Trained Mindset Wins (16:22) Final Reflections and Thanks

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We could be lead to believe that nutrition is well covered in the endurance world. We're more clued up than ever with the majority of runners regularly stocking up on their gels, chews and hydration tablets.

But this isn't where most fall short.

It's in the day to day nutritional behaviours where it's really affecting athletes the most - with underfueling having a significant and dangerous impact on the rate of injury and poor long term health.

Making sure we have enough energy available to show up and train everyday is vital, yet why do so many miss the mark?

Listen in as Kriss discusses this more.

(00:00) Podcast Introduction (00:40) Fueling High Volume Training (01:11) Routine Nutrition Gaps (02:13) Low Energy Availability Risks (03:33) Mindset And Education (04:15) Injury Warning Signs (05:47) Simple Calorie Upgrades (06:34) Athlete Case Study (08:21) Respecting Body Image (09:13) Holistic Athlete Audit (09:59) Fueling For The Weekend (10:37) Consistency Over Perfection (11:28) Bonks Injuries And Reality (12:24) Macros And Glycogen Basics (13:39) Lifestyle Complexity Coaching (14:32) Nutrition Equals Performance (15:52) Recovery Sleep And Hunger (16:22) Gamifying Better Habits (16:58) Closing And Listener Qs

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Many of us will have spent money on a running analysis, bike fit or swim stroke correction - in the hope that it'll solve our injury problems or improve our performance significantly.

The tech is impressive, the data thorough and the cost reflects it.

However many of us come away none the wiser.

We get told what we need to do - but these new positions or technique changes can be hard to implement when fatigued or over longer durations of time and we end up going back to our old ways

Listen in as we discuss how to get the most from the analysis you've recieved

(00:00) Podcast Intro (00:40) Why Mechanics Matter (00:53) The Analysis Industry (01:52) Strength Missing Link (03:41) Why Cues Fail Late (05:13) Real World Weaknesses (06:37) Simple Drills Anywhere (07:04) Using Gait As Baseline (07:57) Avoid Smoke And Mirrors (09:10) What To Demand From Coaches (09:39) Run Economy Under Fatigue (09:59) Form Cues and Gait Cycle (10:23) Warmup Drills for Resilience (10:56) Strength Builds Confidence (11:31) Injury History and Weak Links (12:16) Maintenance Prevents Breakdowns (13:13) You Are an Athlete (14:39) Individualized Strength and Ratios (15:54) Pros Do the Basics (16:38) Sustainable Training Model (17:03) Wrap Up and Listener Questions

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Can we compare our bodies to machines? It's definitely a topic for debate. But if we think about fuelling, servicing and using gears correctly it makes logical sense. Listen in as Kriss explains more... (00:00) Podcast Intro (00:40) You Are a Machine (01:16) Romance vs Metrics (01:57) Fixing Inefficiency (03:07) Build the Engine (03:37) Train All Gears (04:35) Add Intensity Safely (06:28) Service Your Body (07:33) Weekly Mobility Checks (08:50) Strength as Maintenance (09:25) Weekly Body Check Ins (10:13) Preventing Injury Through Servicing (10:50) Fueling For Big Weekends (12:40) Upgrade Nutrition Quality (14:00) Coaching Examples In Practice (15:15) Train Gears And Fix Niggles (16:54) Sustainable Performance Mindset (18:17) Final Food For Thought

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I've heard it often - someone tells me they have a knee injury, but their hip has also been hurting and also their ankle. So what came first, are they linked and which one should your focus on treating first.

Listen in as we delve deeper into this topic.

(00:00) Podcast Intro (00:40) Injury Loop Problem (01:31) Symptoms vs Root Cause (02:03) Whole Body Connections (04:12) Assess Athleticism (05:44) Movement Tests Checklist (07:17) Build Strength Standards (08:12) Strip Back the Noise (09:29) Why Symptoms Bounce Around (12:05) Life Phases and Rebuild (12:46) Client Example Knee Fix (14:15) Unpack Injuries Fast (15:03) Wrap Up and Outro

It can be easy to think that strength training can only be done effectively in the gym environment, with access to weights and machines. But this is absolutely not the case and at SFE we've seen the success first hand.

Listen in as Kriss discusses more about adjusting your training depending on where you are, how to decide what you need to work on and what equipment you have available.

(00:00) Podcast Intro (00:40) Why Strength Gets Skipped (01:30) Gym Is a Luxury (02:24) Train Anywhere Toolkit (04:03) Strength Drives Performance (05:11) Adjust to Your Lifestyle (06:36) Any Environment Works (07:17) Mobility and Imbalances (08:28) Hybrid Program Examples (09:58) Minimum Effective Exercises (13:07) No More Excuses (15:38) Remove Barriers Get Help (16:43) Wrap Up and Outro

Learn more about Strength For Endurance:

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Kriss gives an honest review of his first 100km and how almost 10 years on, that experience shaped the way he works with clients to achieve their own biggest feats of endurance.

(00:00) Podcast Intro (00:41) Why This 100K Story (01:12) Race Setup And Conditions (02:21) Lesson One Naivety (04:29) Coaching Takeaways Planning (05:41) Lesson Two Body Ego (06:24) Old Injuries Resurface (08:27) Lesson Three Pacing (09:38) Reality Check on Pacing (09:59) Equipment Mistakes and Lessons (11:15) Practice Your Race Kit (12:37) Rushing the Training Block (13:32) Nutrition Planning Gone Wrong (14:59) Race Day Chaos and Finish (15:34) Why Ultra Prep Is Complex (17:18) Kokoda Challenge Recommendation (18:01) Coaching Motivation From Failure (18:41 Final Thoughts and Listener Q&A

Learn more about Strength For Endurance:

Download our FREE Return to Run guide: https://www.strengthforendurance.com/return-to-run-guide

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We've all been guilty of it - said we're going to do something, but never actually got round to doing it.

And this is so common in our busy lives where we're we feel like we have an endless list of 'to-dos' with no time to actually do them.

They same can happen when it comes to integrating better habits, making changes or behaving different around our training, S&C, nutrition, hydration, recovery or rehab.

In todays episode Kriss discusses how we can better go about putting our intentions into action.

(00:00) Podcast Introduction (00:41) Good Intentions Problem (02:08) Information Overload (02:43) Small Upgrades Big Gains (03:32) Physical Habits Integration (05:14) Accountability Systems (07:19) Nutrition Fueling Consistency (09:32) Recovery Deload Planning (11:27) Stress Life Adjustments (13:30) Habit Stacking Framework (14:09) Wrap Up And Next Steps (14:52) Listener Questions And Reviews