The Key to Recovery? Take Care of Your Brain
Many tools and techniques promise recovery benefits. But the science suggests that the fundamentals—sleep and nutrition to fuel the brain—may be the best place to invest.
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How to Tell If Your Legs Are Ready for a Workout
Coach Ryan Kohler and Coach Trevor Connor dissect training data to help you understand how to look for signs of freshness before any interval session.
Overreaching, Overtraining, and Burnout with Dr. Stephen Seiler
Dr. Stephen Seiler discusses the distinction between overtraining, overreaching, and burnout.
Enhancing Your Recovery with NormaTec
Recovering from a big ride can be helped by NormaTec, a medical device company, that crafts inflatable compression wear for athletes. Research has shown this type of recovery enhancement can have significant impacts on a host of factors, both molecular and circulatory.
How to Analyze Whoop Data
Coach Connor walks through the Whoop dashboard, analyzes his data, and points out some peculiarities of his physiology that are only revealed through Whoop data.
How to Maximize Recovery During Multi-Day Events
Stage races and other multi-day events offer special challenges, particularly when it comes to recovery. We explore three of the key elements to maintaining good performances day after day.
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The Athlete’s Guide to Foam Rolling
Strength and conditioning expert Menachem Brodie explains why and how you should use foam rolling to improve recovery.
How to Maximize Recovery During Multi-Day Events
Stage races and other multi-day events offer special challenges, particularly when it comes to recovery. We explore three of the key elements to maintaining good performances day after day.
The Truth About Massage
Long-held beliefs about the benefits of massage are not backed by science. But that doesn’t mean you should stop seeing your favorite therapist. We explain.
The Most Effective Recovery Strategies
We are framing the discussion on endurance training recovery around Paul Chek's Six Foundational principles: sleeping, breathing, eating, thinking, drinking, and moving.
The Key to Recovery? Take Care of Your Brain
Many tools and techniques promise recovery benefits. But the science suggests that the fundamentals—sleep and nutrition to fuel the brain—may be the best place to invest.
Forget Marginal Gains and Focus on the Fundamentals
In an age when athletes often focus on the specifics, we address the importance of focusing on the fundamentals: training, recovery, and functioning gear—the things that will bring you the greatest return for your investment of time, sweat, and energy.
Q&A on Cross Training, Workout Complexity, and Pre-Race Nutrition
Ryan and Trevor tackle questions on how running can be used in the base season, recovery for time-crunched athletes, the complexity of workouts, pre-race meal planning, and much more.
If Dr. Stephen Seiler Were Your Dad, How Would You Train? Part 2
Dr. Seiler and his daughter Siren talk about intensity zones, peaking and riding the wave, recovery diagnostics, strength training, pistol squat PRs, Paula Radcliffe, and the loneliness of the high-level female endurance athlete.
Q&A on Max Heart Rate, Time-Crunched Recovery, TSS, and Protein
Ryan and Trevor field questions on max heart rate, TSS, recovery in athletes who only train 8-10 hours per week, protein consumption during ultra-endurance events, and more.
How to Tell If Your Legs Are Ready for a Workout
Coach Ryan Kohler and Coach Trevor Connor dissect training data to help you understand how to look for signs of freshness before any interval session.
The Art and Science of Yoga, with Sage Rountree
Yoga is much more than fancy stretching or breathing techniques—it can be a powerful tool to aid health and performance.
The Benefits of Taking an Offseason
Many athletes worry that they will lose fitness, or detrain, if they skip too many days of training. While detraining does occur over time, there are also many benefits to taking a break.