Q & A – Travel, Sven Nys, Gaining Weight, strength and Off-Season

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Keywords: Travel, Sven Nys, Gaining Weight, strength and Off-Season

Today’s episode is a Reader/Listener Question and Answer (Q & A ) Episode.

We talk about our challenges over the last month of training, the core-routine we are each doing (and Peter is using with his clients) . We discuss a Sven Nys quote on embracing your sport and how this can help the Consummate Athlete. One of our readers has been sick and inquires about gaining weight, which let us discuss some tactics for losing/gaining that have worked for us, in research and/or for clients.

NOTES OCTOBER Q & A 

crazy travel week, what we learned at crossvegas, Iowa world cups 
-sleep
-stretching
-train
–eat: 1 veg per meal, tons of water (see molly’s article on surviving trade shows )
Sven nys quote from Bicycling (teaser about short podcast coming up)
You have to live 365 days a year for your sport. That helps a lot. Not just for a small period. You need to have the passion from day one until the last day.
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INTO READER Qs
Know what? Gaining weight. From coming back from illness (severe weight loss) to generally losing too much weight training.
  • give it time, body will return to ‘normal’ (ease into training)
  • protein / calories in general need to come up but consider IN vs. OUT
  • backing off training ie walking not running
  • Liquid calories (dairy, peanut butter , white rice as easy to eat lots)
  • watch starting with low cal / high nutrient density foods (ie. salad opener limits overall calories for some)
  • Molly references milk (whole milk) beneficial for DOMS from study HERE
Vince M C. asks: I would love some down-to-earth advice on getting into interval training. I’ve always just tried to maintain a pace while running, but I’m aware that interval training will yield better results. But how does one establish intervals as a beginner?
  • fartlek is the easiest way to start
  • run/walk (not just for beginners)
  • break normal route into chunks
  • track – run straits, walk corners
  • find a track workout or hill workout nearby
  • find hills
Brandon asks: strength training in the off season why, how, when. 
  • should year round
  • offseason good to start
  • infographics on performance benefits of strength
OFFSEASON IN GENERAL

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Kyle Boorsma – How to Start Running, Beet Juice, RPE & Mental Tactics to finish races strong and Transitioning to Cycling

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Several awesome conversations today with Kyle Boorsma. We talk about his running experience as an elite, as a coach and as a researcher looking at Beet-Root Juice. Several other discussions about his transitions to cycling from running and really useful and thought provoking back and forth on RPE (perceived exertion) and finding that ‘OH SHIT’ moment in the middle of a race as a GOOD thing. Hope you like it!

 

 

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Show Notes

Links
   – @BlingBoorsma on Twitter

=> Watch Kyle’s Interview after a 1500m win ! LINK

1) WHO ARE YOU !?!?Kyle is the assistant coach to well-known, and very successful, coach Dave Scott Thomas with Speed River Running Club.  He is also a Varsity Champion in team events and individual events including – 2010 CIS Cross-Country Champion for teams and individuals, Part of Guelph’s 5 consecutive Team CIS and OUA Cross-Country Championships. Numerous CIS indoor champion for 1500 and 3000 meters.

When off his feet he found time to get a Bachelors degree in Kinesiology and follow that up with a nutritional focused masters with exercise physiology focus. His thesis was on the use of Beet Root Juice (Nitrate) in Elite middle distance Runners. Finally he has taken up road cycling in a big way over the last couple years racing for the Devinci professional team out of Quebec this past season.

 

2) Education and Beets 
– Beet Root for ‘normal’ or ‘amateurs’ or ‘masters’ seems to have affect. For elites there are fewer (much fewer) responders.
*Read Kyle’s Masters
 – Try to find concentrated beet shots vs. the juice but the juice still likely beneficial for those people (non-elite)
 – Masters under Lawrence Spree who you can see on Gatorade commercials talking sport science and hydration.
3) Coaching  –> Coaches middle distance *800m to marathon
  -> Philosophy – threshold (aerobic power) such as 2 x 10 or 25 min hard or multiple 5 min efforts with adequate volume
3b) RPE – big discussion on what RPE (rate of percieved exertion) is and how to use in your training
             – example of RPE in racing and training
             – Kyle / Peter have similarly found they need to get to a point of ‘oh shit I won’t finish’ after first lap (peter) or mid-race (Kyle)
              – important to realize that you control your effort
                – running easy / endurance runs at conversational pace, not necessarily easy but able to talk and make conversation
4) How to Learn to Run 
      – start slow 20 min runs
        – get started, not super sciency
        – initial gains will be linear by ‘just running’
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5) Kyle start bike racing 
      – troubled by Achilles Tendon Injury
        – Cycling seemed less limited by body (non-impact) so could work as hard as he had energy vs. being limited by Achilles (injury)
       – learning pack skills / what he has learned after a couple of years racing
     – found cycling different then running due to the team / game (tactics)  aspect