What actually changes as we age as athletes, and how should training evolve if we want to keep performing while protecting long term health?

In this episode, Professor Peter Reaburn joins us to explore the science and real world practice of training as a masters athlete. Drawing on decades of research and personal experience as an endurance athlete, Peter explains why resistance training becomes essential with age, how recovery changes, and why training the same way you did in your twenties no longer works.

We discuss muscle loss, polarized training, protein intake, and the importance of balancing performance with longevity. The conversation also dives into heart health considerations for aging endurance athletes and why listening to your body may be the most important skill masters athletes can develop.

Today’s speakers:

Prof Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/
Prof Peter Reaburn https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-reaburn-8a498b12/

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Profiling and training SPEED🏎️ individually might be 30% (!!!) of any SPRINTING performance - get ON IT!

Prof. Dr. JB Morin would like you to consider that if you do not cover, train or assess the WHOLE SPECTRUM of what your athletes can or cannot do, then you are likely leaving BIG 💥💨 gains on the table. Does 30% matter to you?

In the 115th episode of The Training Science Podcast, Martin and JB discuss:

📖 the Force-Velocity relationship in SPRINTING;

✅ training SPECIFIC for individual SPEED profiles;

❤️ SPRINT specific resistance training.

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Today’s speakers:

Dr Martin Buchheit https://martin-buchheit.net/

Prof. Dr. JB Morin

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Does high intensity training really build the strongest heart, or is it time in Zone 1 and Zone 2 that truly drives cardiac adaptation?

In this episode, Dr Guido Claessen joins us to unpack a landmark longitudinal MRI study on endurance athletes that challenges common assumptions about HIIT and heart remodeling. They explore what actually builds the “athletic heart,” why low intensity volume matters more than most think, and what this means for polarized training.

They also tackle the harder questions lifelong athletes worry about including atrial fibrillation, coronary plaque, myocarditis, and how much endurance sport might be too much.

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Today’s speakers:

Prof Paul Laursen https://www.paullaursen.com/

Dr Guido Claessen https://www.linkedin.com/in/guido-claessen-936a18a9/