The Infirmary | Fixing Broken Endurance Athletes

Episode 53: You Are Not the Voices in Your Head, or How to Fix Your Self-Talk

My coaching intake questionnaires ask about fitness history, equipment, fueling, and injury background, but the thing athletes flag most consistently is imposter syndrome

Episode 52: How to Achieve a Breakthrough Performance with Mark McCabe

Mark McCabe wrote triathlon into his social calendar in 2020, stayed stuck at a 5:45 for four years, and then decided to find out what would happen if he actually gave th

Episode 51: Three Endurance Skills that Lead to Mastery

I see the following situation far too often: an athlete who is completely reliant on their devices, doesn’t practice their fueling, and cannot change a flat tire. This ki

Episode 50 Live from Bend Camp: David Tilbury-Davis on the Mindset and Habits Behind Long-Term Athletic Success

This episode is a live recording from Campfire's annual Bend Triathlon Training Camp, where co-coach and longtime collaborator David Tilbury-Davis sat down with campers f

Episode 49: How to Face Your Fear w/Sports Psychologist Simon Marshall

Simon Marshall trained the brains of endurance athletes for a living, and in this conversation he makes the case that the mental side of sport is the part most of us skip

Episode 48: Deliberate Practice in the Pool Leads to a TEN-MINUTE Olympic-distance Improvement

Swim improvement is slow, frustrating, and worth every minute — and this episode is proof of that. Chris walks you through Alex W.’s amazing 2:35 to 1:52/100 threshold pa

Episode 47: Justin Daerr on Intrinsic Motivation, Longevity vs. Performance, and Staying in the Game

Episode 46: Fixing the Brick—Four Studies on Running Off the Bike

The difference between a well-trained bike-to-run transition and a poorly trained one is up to 10% of your run performance — and most athletes have no idea why it happens

Episode 45: Durability and Fatigue Resistance with Coaching Legend Joe Friel

Joe Friel — author of the Triathlete's Training Bible, co-founder of TrainingPeaks, and one of the most influential coaches in endurance sport — joins Chris Bagg for a co

Episode 44: Triathlon Only Has Two Zones

One of the issues with the established training zone systems out there is that, very often, there are more zones than we need, particularly for multisport training and ra

Episode 43: The Science of Sweat | How to Actually Fuel and Hydrate for Endurance with Tash Cooper-Smith

Sports scientist and triathlete Tash Cooper-Smith from Precision Fuel & Hydration joins The Infirmary to demystify one of endurance sport's most confusing topics: fueling

Episode 42: Stress + Rest = Growth: A Guided Breathwork Session for Mental Toughness

Most athletes swing between two bad options when things get hard: they back off because something in their brain, body, or heart says “too much,” or they panic, push too

Episode 41: “‘Metabolic Efficiency’ is Just a Fancy Term for Getting Fit w/Elite Endurance Coach Ryan Bolton

Ryan Bolton is an Olympian, competing at the first Olympic Triathlon in 2000, and he is also a long course champ, winning Ironman Lake Placid in 2002. He coaches America’

Episode 40: “Where Is My Mind? Flow State, Focus, and Interval Meditation”

Coaches and athletes talk about the semi-mythical “flow state” a lot, but there is precious little information about how to achieve flow state. Those same coaches and ath

Episode 39: “10-Minute Guided Interval Meditation”

The companion piece to Episode 40, this is is a guided meditation that will help you discover what your brain and body wants to do during a difficult interval or during a

Episode 38: From a Ten-Year Break to 9:03 at Roth: Ultraman World Champion Gordo Byrn

Endurance coaching legend Gordo Byrn joins us to discuss his return to racing after a 10-year break. The 2002 Ultraman World Champion and author of From Lemon to Legend b

Episode 37: Coaching The “Emotional” Athlete

For well over the first half of my professional career, I was labeled an “emotional athlete.” That label seemed to mean, well, something else. In this case that “somethin

Episode 36: “The Bonfire of Success,” with World Class Coach David Tilbury Davis

David Tilbury-Davis coaches or has coached triathlon household names such as Ashleigh Gentile, Lionel Sanders, Skye Moench, Corinne Abraham, Cody Beals, and Matt Hanson,

Episode 35: Overtrained or Just Under-recovered? The Difference That Could Save Next Season

Overtraining syndrome is rare, serious, and can end your endurance career if you're not careful. In this episode, we break down the differences between functional overrea

Episode 34: Cody Beals’ “Pathological Inability to Rest” and Resulting Burnout

Canadian pro triathlete Cody Beals opens up about thoroughly burning out, wondering if his triathlon career was over after Ironman Chattanooga, and what happened when he