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A new format, special episode with three other co-hosts. We talk about Kona, what the week leading up to the race feels like

Episode 17 is a talk with Walter Staiano, an exercise scientist, from the University of Valencia. We discuss his early career as a coach and then his study of how the brain impacts performance. We also talk about his most recent study about the Danish Jr. National Handball team and the novel brain training intervention they employed successful to increase attention/focus and reaction time.

Episode 10 is an in-depth interview with Peter Ralston. He was the first westerner to win the full contact world championship martial arts competition in China. During his training for that tournament he developed his training program for "effortless power."

This an interesting interview with swim coach Don Swartz. He gave a talk in the early 1980s at an ASCA conference titled, "Nonsense and the Beginner's Mind: Looking for a Quantum Leap." It was his challenge to the swim coaching community to look for a better way to train athletes. It is as relevant then as it is now. Enjoy.

Episode 15 - Alex Hutchinson, Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. In the interview we discuss the view of endurance training of the last 100 years and then the discoveries around the brain's impact on performance that have been shown coming out of the exercise science lab. Alex does a great job of distilling down all of the information and putting all of the understanding into easy to understand terms.