Watt Pod

Hugh van Cuylenburg is a teacher, the founder of The Resilience Project, co-host of The Imperfects Podcast and a 400m running enthusiast & masters competitor.

Sam touches on his own training and answer lots of questions re. general training with minimal equipment, pursuing two goals at once, land cruiser vs lamborghini training, how to adjust swim training, how squeeze out more 500m potential and training for maximal 10min effort.

Dr Alice McNamara is two-time world champion rower, a winner of the Empire State Building Run-Up, a seven-time winner of the Eureka Stair Climb, a trailer runner and a physician to elite athletes at the Victorian Institute of Sport, the Australian Women's Basketball Team (the Opals) and Australian Paralympic Cycling Team.

This week Sam discusses motivation, the frustrations of the Australian men's 8, poor man's altitude training, catabolism and goal sequencing.

Angus Dawson is a rower, a two-time Olympian, an U/23 World Champion and a current undergraduate at Cal Berkeley.

Sam muses on sickness and the various hiccups that interrupt the training process, husky runs, his grievances with modern heart monitors and reads a document he was compelled to write in 2013 that ultimately ended any optimism to compete at the Rio Olympics.

Shawn Baker is an orthopaedic surgeon, a world record holder, a multi-decade athlete and notable proponent of the carnivore diet.

Sam discusses the ongoing effects of Cyclone Alfred, the impact on life and training, as well as book suggestions, current thoughts of running shoe selection and answers questions on mobility, core work and running benchmarks for Sub3.

Mack Horton is a retired freestyle swimmer. He is an Olympic gold medallist, World Championships gold medallist, and 4-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio he became the first male swimmer from the state of Victoria to win an Olympic Gold medal.

Sam talks about Cyclone Alfred and it's implications, the importance of optimism and how to adjust well when life requires it.