With Kona right around the corner, on this show we feature professional triathlete Pete Jacobs, the winner of the 2012 Ironman World Championships. The year prior to that, Pete was second at Kona and the winner of Ironman Australia. After a hiatus, this year he’s toeing the line at Kona again. Today we’re going to Read More

Lucho and Tawnee are on for Ask The Coaches 242, on this show: An ultrarunner and professional bike courier is working out 50 hours a week wants to know: What would proper fueling look like for this amount of volume? Eat – a lot! Protein needs for endurance athletes: 1.4-2.g grams or protein per kg Read More

  Dr. Steve Gangemi, the Sock Doc, is back on the show. We hear about his latest adventure race and he provides his wisdom on the following: Sports nutrition – fact or myth? We clarify the following: Does coffee/caffeine before exercise leads to dehydration? https://link.springer.com/article/10.2165%2F00007256-200131110-00002 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12187618?dopt=Abstract http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/y90-135#.WYnOntPysi4 If you’re fat-adapted can you “race low” (low Read More

On this episode of Ask the Coaches: Tawnee’s back from her break, and her and Lucho take some time to catch up and share the latest news, including that she’s pregnant! You can read more of Tawnee’s pregnancy blogs and follow her journey at tritawn.com. Study mention – Running Exercise Increases the Intervertebral Disc “Chronic running Read More

On this episode of Ask the Coaches: Followup on strapless HRV app: There is on! Check out HRV4TRAINING if interested, which uses the iPhone camera (and does not need a separate heart rate strap). Lucho drools over a fan selling his 2000 Litespeed Saber frame. Is MAF affected by COLD temperatures? Whether freezing temps or temps in the Read More

On this episode of Ask the Coaches, the first of 2017: Quick discussion on a great blog post by Steve Magness: What Actually Matters – Concepts of Details? On cleanses as we get into the new year: How about thinking about it a different way and an opportunity to ADD more to your life, not Read More

For this Kona special we are making about you. We all have dreams and many of us have that dream to Kona Qualify. Well we have back with us Alan Couzens, MS, to present real-life data on what separates those who qualify for the Ironman World Championships in Kona from those who don’t. These are every day Read More

Ben Greenfield is back for Sports Nutrition 235: Neurofeedback training Alpha beta imbalances Decreases distraction More focus Like meditation (but way more expensive) Check out: Peak Brain Institute and Dr. Andrew Hill Maffetone’s 2-week test to test carb intolerance (CI). What does it mean when you have some positive outcomes such as less bloating and more focused, Read More

Episode 214 of Ask The Coaches with Lucho and Tawnee providing answers to your questions and discussing the latest and greatest for your endurance training and racing. Announcing Ragnar SoCal 2017! We are building the team(s) now and plan to finalize within a month or two so if you’re interesting in a life-changing epic experience running Read More

We’re back with Episode 4 of “So You Wanna Go Pro” featuring elite triathlete Matt Bach. This episode takes an unexpected and somewhat ironic turn of events. Listen to Ep. 3 here. Matt discusses recent developments in his health & plans to heal: Diagnosis: Stress reaction in femur, osteoporosis, and double genetic mutation in MTHFR with C677T Read More