The Full Circle Podcast
The Full Circle Podcast offers listeners insights into topics and ideas pertaining to endurance sports training and racing. Hosted by Coach Laura Henry, this podcast releases episodes weekly and discusses training best practices, effective workouts, compelling research, coaching methodologies, physiology and recovery, and the best tools to help guide you unlock your potential and achieve your best performance. The Full Circle Podcast is part of Full Circle Endurance, which is an endurance sports coaching company that serves athletes in many endurance sports, including triathlon, running, cycling, and open water swimming. To learn more about how Full Circle Endurance can help you reach your goals, please visit us at: https://FullCircleEndurance.com/
Episodes
All too often, athletes don’t discover (or, perhaps more accurately) admit that they aren’t on track to reach the goals they’ve set until the inability to hit the goal is literally staring them in the face. A much more effective and enjoyable strategy is to conduct a Mid-Season Athletic Performance Review to assess ahead of time if you are on track to reach your goals. This allows you to recalibrate your training (and perhaps you...
A wetsuit is a great and valuable tool in open water swimming events and triathlons. However, there is too much emphasis on wetsuits being “necessary” for athletes to do multisport events. You don’t need to wear a wetsuit to do a triathlon.
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Injuries are an athlete's worst nightmare. Fortunately, there is something all athletes can do to help significantly reduce their probability of injury. It’s surprisingly simple, though that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s easy.
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https://www.fullcircleendurance.com/blog/coach-tip-tuesday-the-best-way-to-avoid-injury
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A big fallacy in the world of endurance sports is that longer is better. But longer races are not inherently more impressive, meaningful, or significant. Don’t fall into the trap that you must always do something “bigger and better” when it comes to setting goals for yourself.
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If you’re like most athletes, after you’ve worked consistently and diligently in training, you expect that that hard work will come to fruition on race day in the form of good race results. This is a reasonable expectation, but perhaps surprisingly, consistency and working hard in training isn’t enough to have a successful race. You must also execute the race itself well and in a particular way in order to achieve a desired resul...
It can feel overwhelming - to say the least - when beginner endurance athletes are trying to decipher what they should do in their training. What is the best thing for beginner endurance athletes to do? The answer is simple, but it’s not easy.
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When temperatures rise, workouts feel more challenging. For some athletes, hot conditions can make workouts feel downright awful. Despite how difficult workouts in hot conditions can feel, there are some proven strategies that enable you to train and perform well in the heat.
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You’ll hear about how you “should do this” and you “should do that” in order to successfully train and reach your goals. There are an infinite number of things that you could do that would be beneficial. But you can’t - and shouldn’t! - do All of The Things. There are three things that are the best for endurance athletes to focus on. Beyond that, sorting through which things are most beneficial for you can be very daunting and ...
When was the last time you intentionally engaged all of your available senses simultaneously? If you’re like most people, you probably can’t remember. Using all of your available senses during workouts can result in many benefits, including more enjoyment during workouts and increased self-awareness.
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https://www.fullcircleendurance.com/blog/coach-tip-tuesday-using-all-of-your-senses-in-workou...
Is it best to complete workouts in the morning or the evening? This question has been debated among athletes and coaches for a long time and the opinions on this topic vary widely. After 10+ coaching endurance athletes, a trend has stood out that indicates which might actually be best for a lot of athletes.
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Training for a Sprint Triathlon is an exciting thing! Along with the excitement that comes from embarking on a journey like this, athletes may feel overwhelmed if they’ve never trained for a triathlon or multisport event before. But there’s good news! Training for a Sprint Triathlon honestly isn’t as intimidating as it may seem. By giving yourself enough time to prepare, thoughtfully considering each element of the race, and be...
When it’s up to you to decide what to do in a workout, what do you choose in terms of duration, distance, and intensity? Do you choose to go the hardest and/or longest you possibly can? Contrary to popular opinion, The Hardest and/or The Most is not necessarily The Best.
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Early season goal races often sound fun and great when athletes sign up for them. But as race day looms, some truths about what having a goal race this early in the year means become clear. Coach Laura dives into what it actually means to select an early season race as a goal race.
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No matter which endurance sport you train for, the transition from indoor to outdoor training is often more challenging than athletes expect. We dive into all of the things to consider and expect when you make this transition.
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Coach Laura discusses the books she read in April 2024 and how she’s going to implement what she learned into her coaching and training. She also dives into why reading is so important for the development and maintenance of the human brain.
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No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World’s 14 Highest Peaks by Ed Viesturs with David Roberts
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We’re celebrating the SEVENTH anniversary of Coach Tip Tuesday!
In what has become a tradition, I am sharing something inspired by my friend and mentor Coach Brendan Jackson: What if you fly?
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https://www.fullcircleendurance.com/blog/coach-tip-tuesday-what-if-you-fly
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1st Anniversary Post: Coach Tip Tuesday: At the End of All Things
2nd Anniversary Post: Coach Tip Tues...
“What if I’m wrong?” is one of the most significant and important questions we can ask ourselves as we navigate our lives. We do not know everything, and even what we think we “know” may prove to be incorrect. It’s important to understand when things have shifted and admit it when they have.
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The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self by Michael Easter
Walking is one of the best activities humans can do for their overall health and wellness. Perhaps surprisingly to some athletes, walking is really important for endurance athletes, too.
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www.fullcircleendurance.com/blog/coach-tip-tuesday-the-case-for-walking
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Banach, Maciej, et al. “The association between daily step count and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: a meta-analysi...
If it hasn’t happened to you already, sooner or later you will get sick. How do you best handle getting sick when you’re training?
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https://www.fullcircleendurance.com/blog/how-to-handle-training-when-you-get-sick
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Over the last several years, we keep hearing about how anxiety and depression levels are rising significantly. There have been a lot of complex and expensive solutions proposed to combat this problem, but the real solution may be more simple and elegant than anyone realizes. Seeking out regular opportunities for awe and enchantment can remind us of how wonderful being human really is and help us become happier overall.
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