025 - Caitlin Clark & The Cost of Greatness
Last week, ESPN's Wright Thompson wrote a wonderfully reported profile of Iowa's Caitlin Clark (link below), who is playing in her last NCAA tournament and capping off a career as one of college baske...
28 Mar 202446min
024 - The Coach Up: Make Friends with Your Fatigue
Knowing how to be tired is a skill. If you don't know how to work with fatigue, you won't be able to push yourself when things get hard. On the other hand, if you only know how to push and can't under...
25 Mar 202412min
023 — When Does Exercise Become Unhealthy? (And Other Voicemails)
We’ve got voicemail(s)! On the last roundtable, we opened up our phone lines a you all answered the call with some great questions. So today’s episode is dedicated to answering three of the issues rai...
21 Mar 202438min
022 - The Coach Up: Instead of Toxic Positivity, Try Tragic Optimism
The world can be pretty wonderful. It can also be pretty terrible. So we need a mindset that works for both of these circumstances. Unfortunately, these days, we often live on the extremes. On the one...
18 Mar 202410min
021 - Are Our Cravings and Comforts Holding Us Back? (with Michael Easter)
In his books The Comfort Crisis and Scarcity Brain, Michael Easter explores two of the major complications of living in our modern world. The world is rife with comfort and convenience, which is great...
14 Mar 202448min
020 - The Coach Up: 6 Tips for Building (& Breaking) Habits
In his book Atomic Habits, James Clear makes the point that it's your habits, multiplied over time, that create the person you become. That's because habits compound. The difference between the person...
11 Mar 20249min
019 - VO2 Max and Other Things You Don't Need To Know
Health and fitness is in a weird place these days. On one hand, there’s a lack of foundational health literacy in society (as evidenced by a recent Exercise I.Q. Quiz in The New York Times that left u...
7 Mar 202437min
018 - The Coach Up: (How to) Fly Into the Danger Zone
"You need to feel like a pot of water on the stove that's just about to start boiling over," says Molly Seidel, in describing what it feels like to run the marathon pace that won her the bronze at the...
4 Mar 20249min
