The Defining Endurance Podcast from Lifelong Endurance Lifelong Endurance
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- Health & Fitness
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A show aimed at getting to the core of what it takes to become a better endurance athlete on the road, trail, and everywhere in between.
We focus on bringing you the topics and people that will provoke thought, give you insight, and educate you all about the world of endurance sports and training.
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116 - Preparing for Fall Marathons
CIM? Chicago? Berlin? NYC Marathon?
No matter what marathon you're prepping for this fall - Coach Andrew Simmons is sharing the key elements to training in the late summer heat, specific endurance runs, and a few extra tips to help you dial in that BQ or sub-3-hour marathon goal.
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115 - Layers of Fitness #5 - Enjoying the Cake
115 - Layers of Fitness #5 - Enjoying the Cake
Mental Tools
Visualization
Tactics for managing a tough race or workout
How to integrate mental preparation into your training
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114 - Layers of Fitness #4: Decorating the Cake (Hydration and Nutrition)
Layers of Fitness #4: Decorating the Cake
Hydration
Nutrition (Day of Racing)
Specific Long Runs
Race Pace Sessions
Fast Racing demands vs. Marathon and beyond
Why we can run into stomach issues
What works for training?
Why Carbs or King, and Calories are crucial
Training your gut
Products changing the market!
What is a specific endurance run - it's more than race pace
Refining your strategy
Specific Questions?
E-mail me: andrew@lifelongendurance.com
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113 - Layers of Fitness #3 | Baking the Cake
Layers of Fitness #3: Baking the Cake
Timing (How big is the cake?)
Specific Demands
Moving from General to Specific
Speed Work (Sugar)
Mixing the ingredients
Welcome back. This is the 3rd episode in a 5 part series where we break down the principles of training and dig into some of the smaller nooks and crannies of performance, preparation, and racing. We spent last episode on our mise-en-place, prepping the ingredients and if I’m being honest - we only scraped the surface of preparation. Quite often, when we train we end up degrading in certain areas over a cycle and the “prep” can really be about preparing our bodies to train and rebuilding ignored areas of training. Sometimes that can lead to injury, or it can be from an imbalance in load.
Questions? E-mail me! andrew@lifelongendurance.com
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112 - Layers of Fitness #2 | All The Ingredients!
112 | Layers of Fitness #2: What are the Ingredients?
General Fitness
Strength
Capacity [ Anaerobic vs. Aerobic]
Ratio for events
Sprinkles
Neural Work
Strides
Welcome back. This is the 2nd episode in a 5 part series where we break down the principles of training and dig into some of the smaller nooks and crannies of performance, preparation, and racing. We spent last episode on our mise-en-place, prepping the ingredients and if I’m being honest - we only scraped the surface of preparation. Quite often, when we train we end up degrading in certain areas over a cycle and the “prep” can really be about preparing our bodies to train and rebuilding ignored areas of training. Sometimes that can lead to injury, or it can be from an imbalance in load.
Questions? E-mail me! andrew@lifelongendurance.com
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111 - Layers of Fitness Episode 1 of 5: The Layers
A Note to Listeners:
Moving forward Coach Andrew will be taking over all episodes of the podcast. We will still have guests on ocassionally but the podcast will now be used to give listeners more in-depth information. If you have questions you want answered - e-mail: andrew@lifelongendurance.com
Welcome to Episode 1 of a 5 part series I’m calling “The Layers of Fitness”. After some time away from this podcast, I wanted to reassess what this podcast was best used for and what was most helpful to our listeners. The episodes that seem to perform the best are often the ones that bring your knowledge of running and training up a level.
As a coach, I can’t sit down and explain the intricacies of training person by person so the Defining Endurance platform (for now) is going to be a place where I can park some of the most important conversations I wish I had time to explain to my athletes
I reference Episode 79 - The Biology of Fatigue and Episode 85: the Mentality of Recovery in this episode. These are great prerequisites if you feel lost in this one.
Intro Song: Still, Kenny Beats from Louie
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Customer Reviews
Love This Podcast!
Defining Endurance is a podcast for the ultra endurance community. DE continually delivers thoughtful discussions with endurance practicioners and athletes along with practical advice on a variety of relavant topics. Highly recommended listening for your long run days.
Insight into all thing running, training, and the human condition!
Andrew does a great job of breaking down important topics in the world of exercise physiology and training science in an interesting and comprehensible way. From strength training in running to mental health in athletes. Whether you have been a long time endurance athlete, a recreational runner, or just want more information on where to start in your training process, give it a listen and a follow!
Insightful and Energetic
Andrew brings a fresh take on a wide variety of issues related to not just running but life in general. If you enjoy diving more deeply into the human psyche, you’re in for a feast- pull up a chair.