Our Kona coverage continues with two legend of the sport, six-time Ironman World Champion Mark Allen and Ironman Champion Tim O’Donnell, who’s fresh off a third-place finish in Kona. Both of today’s guests have made appearances on EP before: Click here for Mark’s appearances; and TO’s visit here. On this show you’ll learn what went Read More

During this year’s annual Ironman Sports Medicine Conference, Dr. Bob Murray, FACSM, and Dr. Rod MacKinnon, a Nobel prize-winning neuroscientist, presented groundbreaking research on exercise-induced cramps, including work that’s years in the making and has led to a better understanding on the origin of cramps and, more importantly, how to cure them. On this show, Read More

Three weeks before the Ironman World Championships, professional Haley Chura was just getting into her long Sunday ride when disaster struck–she was hit by a car. The accident knocked her from the road and into a ditch, doing some damage to Haley and her new bike, but, thankfully, it wasn’t the worst possible scenario. She’d Read More

Thorsten and Tawnee recap the 2015 Ironman World Championship pro race in Kona, Hawaii. In this show: – Highlights and what stood out in 2015? – A 32 % DNF rate among the pros (13 women, 17 men); up from 22% last year – New generation of athletes dominating Kona (Frodo, Ryf, etc.) – Crazy Read More

Coach Joe Friel sits down with Tawnee overlooking the Kona shores on the eve of the Ironman World Championships to talk all about endurance training. Get a deeper understanding of the process and journey that makes a great athlete. Whether you have a coach or are self-coached this is a must-listen! And of course, some Read More

Sunny Garcia is a native of Hawaii and has surfed all his life, becoming a pro surfer at age 16. Since then he’s been crowned surfing’s world champion, has dozens of titles to his name and is one of the most well-known surfers on the planet. But this Saturday, Oct. 10, you won’t find Sunny Read More

We bring together two badasses of the triathlon and endurance world: Pro triathlete Beth Gerdes and ATC’s Tim “Lucho” Waggoner. Before ATC, before Beth was an IM athlete — Lucho coached Beth and helped her develop her signature run–she runs a sub-3 marathon in an Ironman. In this show you will get lots of marathon Read More

Discussion on a new review study measuring the effectiveness of polarized training -What is polarized training: undulating nonlinear periodization model with nearly all the training time spent at a “light” (≤13) and “very hard” (≥17) pace with very limited time at “hard” (14-16) or race pace (6-20 RPE scale). To accomplish this, the polarization training Read More

New guest expert Dr. Tommy Wood joins the show! Tommy is a medical doctor, with degrees from Oxford University and Cambridge University. He’s currently working toward a Ph.D. in neonatal brain metabolism at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is also an athlete, specializes in working with endurance athletes, and he takes the functional approach Read More

Flashback Friday: Sept. 2013 with Angela Naeth, who had just made her Ironman debut at IM Lake Tahoe, placing 5th. Since then, Angela’s been crowned an Ironman Champion and will be racing Kona for the first time this year… Find out what she had to say about Ironman back then. In this episode, pro triathlete Read More