Sweat Elite Podcast

Welcome back to In My Opinion - a podcast series by Sweat Elite Founder Matt Fox. In this episode the topics discussed are:  * The story of Sweat Elite (46:00 min mark). * Reflection on 7 weeks in Japan producing a video series around Ekiden (7:47 min mark). * Super shoe news from China where a couple of companies are about to roll out shoes under 100g. * Questions and Answers around How to Break into the Coaching Market. * Social Media and the light fraud going on these days. * The standard segments of IMO including fun workouts to do and recommended products and services. Send Matt an email on [email protected] with any thoughts or questions. The workouts of the week: Any Distance Workout: 2km, 1600m, 1200m, 800m, 4x400m with 2min rest and 1min rest between 400m's. Start at HM pace and end at 3k pace in the 400m's. Half Marathon Specific Workout: 4km/1km, 3km/1km, 2km/1km, 1km/1km with 1min rest between each rep and 3min between the sets. Each longer rep is at Half Marathon effort and the 1k's after it is "harder" Marathon Specific Workout: 30km run including 3 x 5km (1km recovery). The 3 x 5km should be at Marathon effort and the 3rd km within the 5km should be "faster" - closer to Half Marathon effort. Join us over at: https://www.sweat-elite-coaching.com/matt-fox

Welcome back to IMO - this is Episode 8 where Matt Fox - Founder at Sweat Elite - talks about different running topics. In this episode Matt shares insights into attempting to run 8 marathons in 2023 - some lessons learned. He also talks about racing a Marathon (DNF) with Yuki Kawauchi - the Japanese legend. We touch on how sleep impacts racing, how stress impacts racing and much more. Feel free to email me at [email protected] to say Hi or share any thoughts. Join us over at the Sweat Elite Coaching Academy - www.sweat-elite-coaching.com/

In Episode 7 of In My Opinion, Sweat Elite Founder - Matt Fox talks about running a Marathon with Yuki Kawauchi at an Asics Exhibition event tomorrow in Tokyo after a fitness test at Asics Lab in Tokyo, influencers and youtubers (again), a new Coach at the Sweat Elite Coaching Academy (SECA) - Max from Boulder, SECA's expansion into Triathlon in 2024, interesting training sessions, a new business idea around pacing and much more. A huge thank you to those submitting questions and ideas for IMO. You can email [email protected] with ideas or just to say Hi. The workouts of the week: General Workout: 3/4/5 sets of "Broken 2k": 1600m @ threshold (45sec rest), 400m @ 3k effort Half Marathon Workout: 2/3 sets of (4 x 1km @ M pace, HM pace, 10k Pace, 5k Pace). Recovery: 1min between and 3min between sets Marathon Workout: 26km: 5km warm up, 3 sets of (3km @ M, 2km @ M, 1km @ M with 1km recovery between all), 5km cool down. Train with us! https://www.sweat-elite-coaching.com/

Welcome back to In My Opinion (E6) where Sweat Elite founder Matt Fox talks about all things running for about an hour. Matt answers questions, goes on rants and recommends great products and services in the running world as well as suggests interesting workouts. In this episode Matt discusses Youtubers and Influeners, Travelling Asia while prepping for another Marathon (more on that Marathon soon), talks about how a 10 week marathon build could be structered from the stand point of long runs, speaks about Joshua Cheptegei's Valencia Marathon and more. The suggested workouts: 1. Workout for any distance: 1km, 900m, 800m, 700m, 600m, 500m, 400m, 300m, 200m, 100m with 1min recovery. Start at 10km pace and get faster. 2. Half Marathon specific: 3 x 5km: First 5km @ Half Marathon goal pace + 5%, Second 5km alternaing 1km @ Half Marathon goal pace with 1km float, Third 5km @ Half Marathon goal pace. 3min recovery. 3. Marathon specific: 2 x 10km: First 10km alternating 1km just faster than Marathon goal pace with 1km just slower than Marathon goal pace. Second 10km @ Marathon goal pace. 3min or 1km jog recovery. Join us at: https://www.sweat-elite-coaching.com/

In Episode 5 of In My Opinion, Sweat Elite Founder - Matt Fox talks about the Valencia Marathon and some of the insane stats about the race highlighted in detail by Dave Lipman at Pro Running News, the Fukuoka Marathon and his 4th Marathon in 10 weeks running 2:22:20, a recent beef with Japan Running News - trying to frame Sweat Elite and Matt negatively with strange context, the 2023 Performances of the year, the best places in the world to run + holiday, a story about almost being sued by European Athletics. A huge thank you to those submitting questions and ideas for IMO. You can email [email protected] with ideas or just to say Hi. The workouts of the week: 1. 4 x 400m @ 5k pace, 4 x 1600m @ Half Marathon pace, 4 x 400m @ 5k pace. Recovery: 1min and 2min between sets. 2. 18km workout: 1k on/1k float, 2k on/2k float, 3k on/3k float, 2k on/2k float, 1k on/1k float "On's" at just quicker than Half Marathon goal pace. Floats at just slower than Half Marathon goal pace. 3. 35k workout: 5k easy, 3 x 3k @ GMP (1k steady recovery), 3 x 2k @ GMP (1k steady recovery), 3 x 1k @ GMP (1k steady recovery), 3k easy GMP: Goal marathon pace. Steady = somewhere between easy and GMP. Train with us! https://www.sweat-elite-coaching.com/

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In Episode 5 of In My Opinion, Sweat Elite Founder - Matt Fox talks about the Valencia Marathon and some of the insane stats about the race highlighted in detail by Dave Lipman at Pro Running News, the Fukuoka Marathon and his 4th Marathon in 10 weeks running 2:22:20, a recent beef with Japan Running News - trying to frame Sweat Elite and Matt negatively with strange context, the 2023 Performances of the year, the best places in the world to run + holiday, a story about almost being sued by European Athletics.

A huge thank you to those submitting questions and ideas for IMO. You can email [email protected] with ideas or just to say Hi.

The workouts of the week:

1. 4 x 400m @ 5k pace, 4 x 1600m @ Half Marathon pace, 4 x 400m @ 5k pace. Recovery: 1min and 2min between sets.

2. 18km workout: 1k on/1k float, 2k on/2k float, 3k on/3k float, 2k on/2k float, 1k on/1k float
"On's" at just quicker than Half Marathon goal pace. Floats at just slower than Half Marathon goal pace.

3. 35k workout: 5k easy, 3 x 3k @ GMP (1k steady recovery), 3 x 2k @ GMP (1k steady recovery), 3 x 1k @ GMP (1k steady recovery), 3k easy
GMP: Goal marathon pace. Steady = somewhere between easy and GMP.

Train with us! https://www.sweat-elite-coaching.com/

Welcome to Episode 4 of In My Opinion where Sweat Elite Founder Matt Fox rambles for about an hour about all things running, travel and whatever else people are curious about. This weeks episode features a chance to win an awesome running gift pack worth about $1000 featuring Alphafly 3's (see more below), a segment about how to deal with haters, youtubers and content creators, where the line is between elite and sub-elite and sub-elite and recreational, why Japan doesn't have anyone competing at the absolute highest level in running and also the regular segments such as the Strava follow of the week, suggested workouts and recommended products/services. Email me: [email protected] with any thoughts of ideas. Recommended Workouts: #1: Mile @ 10km pace (2min rest) 4 x 400m @ 3km pace (1min rest) (2min rest after the last) Mile @ 10km pace (2min rest) 4 x 300m @ 1500m/Mile pace (1min rest) (2min rest after the last) Mile @ 10km pace (2min rest) 4 x 200m @ 800m pace (1min rest) (2min rest after the last). #2: 16km of 1km @ HM goal pace, 1km @ 20sec/km slower than HM goal pace #3: 36km with 4 sets of (3km @ Marathon goal pace + 40sec/km, 3km @ Marathon goal pace + 20sec/km, 3km @ Marathon goal pace) Sponsored by: https://www.sweat-elite-coaching.com/ To WIN the big prize by predicting Matt's Fukuoka Marathon time!  The prize features: - Alphafly 3's by Top4Running - Gels, Drink Mix and Electrolites by Precision Fuel & Hydration - Triple Magnesium by Pillar Performance - HVMN Ketone-IQ sampler pack - SOAR Sweat Elite Racing Singlet To enter: 1. Comment on Strava post of workout on Dec 1st with prediction (eg 2:19:31) 2. Must be following Matt, Sweat Elite Coaching Academy and Sweat Elite on IG 3. Screenshot the prediction, post on Instagram story with #fukuokamarathonprediction and tag @mattinglisfox on Instagram 4. Rate the Sweat Elite Podcast 5 star ;-) If you guess the result and nobody else does, you've won. If 2 or more people guess the time, Matt decides who wins. You'll gain an "advantage" if you're following the brand sponsors of the post. If nobody guesses the time, anyone within 30 seconds of the result can win and Matt also decides this based on the above advantages. * Only 1 prediction per person. * Prize to be claimed at the end of January 2024.

Welcome to the 3rd edition of In My Opinion where Matt Fox - Founder at Sweat Elite - disusses all things running and shares his (sometimes contraversial) opinions about things. In this weeks episode Matt talks about running the Ageo City Half Marathon and getting beaten by over 200 Japanese people but still running 66minutes, how the Ekiden content has been coming along, learnings about muscle cramping and some of the funnier reasons people believe he's been cramping in races, great Strava accounts to follow, the USA Marathon Olympic Trials and the recent drama around the start time.

The standard segments are in there too - the workouts of the week and the recommended products and services.  Hope you enjoy and as always - send me some thoughts at [email protected] Workouts of the week #1: 2 sets of (10 x 1min). In set 1- the recovery is just 30seconds and the pace should be around 10km goal pace. In the second set - the recovery is 1 minute and you should run it at about 3-5k pace. Between sets take 3minutes recovery. #2: 5km @ Half Marathon pace, 2min rest, 10 x 1min on/off, 2min rest, 5 x 1km @ Half Marathon pace (500m float recovery), 2min rest, 10 x 1min on/off. #3: 5km Easy, 6km @ Marathon goal pace, 1km float, 5km @ Marathon goal pace, 1km float, 4km @ Marathon goal pace, 1km float, 3km @ Marathon goal pace, 1km float, 2km @ Marathon goal pace, 1km float, 1km @ Marathon goal pace, 5km Easy. And join us at www.sweat-elite.coaching.com/ when you're ready to take your running to the next level.

Welcome to episode 2 of In My Opinion where Matt - the Founder at Sweat Elite - answers incoming questions and shares stories to keep you occupied on your next run.  In this episode the points of discussion include: going on an easy run with Japanese legend Yuki Kawauchi, changing plans upcoming races, failing at the 5 marathons in 10 weeks goal already, heart rate training opinions, the best gels in the game, jetlag tips, Trackstaa and the conflict earlier in the year, some recommended products and services and how to potentially shed some kilograms leading into a race. Thanks for listening in! Email me at [email protected] if you like with any thoughts or ideas.  The featured workouts: 1. 3 x 10min with 2min rest. The first 10min at threshold. The second 10min alternating 1min just faster than threshold pace with 1min just slower than threshold pace. The third 10min progressing from just slower than threshold to just faster than threshold. 2. 3k, 4k, 3k with the 3k intervals at Half Marathon goal pace or slightly faster and the 4km at just slower than Half Marathon goal pace. Recovery: 2min. 3. 35km: 10km easy, 10km at Marathon effort, 10km alternating 1km just faster than Marathon pace with 1km just slower than Marathon pace, 5km easy. Join us at the Sweat Elite Coaching Academy: https://www.sweat-elite-coaching.com/ Predict Your Marathon with Kaizen: https://runkaizen.com/ Tinman Calculator: https://runfastcoach.com/calc2/index.php

Welcome to a new podcast series - In My Opinion - where I, Matt Fox will share stories, information and education about the elite running world. In the first episode I discuss being in Japan and what Sweat Elite is up to here, meeting Kelvin Kiptum in Kenya, The New York Marathon and how phenomenal the men's winning result really was and much more.

Email me at [email protected] with any insights. Mentions: Sweat Elite's Training Camp in Kenya: https://www.sweatelite.co/trainingcamp/