The Strength For Endurance Podcast explores the wins, challenges and lessons experienced in the pursuit of successful endurance performance.
Each episode your host and owner of Strength For Endurance Kriss Hendy discusses what it takes to truly reach your potential and stay injury free, whether your sights are set on your first 10km or elite competition.
From strength and conditioning to injury rehabilitation and preventing overtraining, Kriss is regularly joined by inspiring guests, from clients and coaches, to lecturers and research experts.
Ultimately we look to answer the question ‘How can we achieve long-term successful endurance performance, whilst maintaining optimal health and lifestyle-balance?'….
To find out more about training with Kriss at Strength For Endurance, head over to www.strengthforendurance.com
Are you someone who has found running at a later stage?
If so, did you grow up playing any other sports?
Will you previous sporting history matter in terms of your future running potential, training…
Hip pain spans a wide range of causes, levels of severity and recovery timelines. From chronic overuse injuries to acute trauma, and contributing factors including low energy availability and excess …
Long time SFE member Peter is passionate about ultra distance adventures - whether it’s hiking, cycling, skiing or running.
Today he joins us to talk about his most recent challenge - The Haute Rout…
A pro-activate approach to lower back & SI Joint pain
If you've ever experienced lower back pain or SI Joint pain you'll know how debilitating it can be.
It can halt your training and any progress yo…
We’ve got a great episode for you today, as Kriss is joined by recently crowned National Cross Country Mountain Bike Champion, Phil Pearce.
Phil has had a fascinating journey up to this point, that h…
Many of us will have jobs that are physically demanding in their nature from gardeners and builders, to farmers and hospitality staff, the list goes on...
High step counts, repetitive physical tasks …
In the majority of other sports, S&C is an equally valued component of athletic performance. The associated benefits it has on performance and the biggest risks if not.
So why in the broad spectrum o…
The most important thing when following an ultra endurance program is making sure that you have energy available to meet the demands and expectations of your training.
Many people can find themselve…
A large proportion of the clients who work with us are pushing hard in multiple areas of their lives.
They are immersed in busy, and sometimes stressful corporate careers, have family responsibiliti…
Whether it's your first attempt or your 20th, training for an ultra marathon event is no mean feat.
Unfortunatley the volume and intensity of the training often leads to injury, especially if the rig…
In todays episode Kriss shares with you the story of a female client who was struggling to get back to running post children (her youngest now 2.5 yrs old).
This client had trained and competed at an…
For SFE client Ange, Ultra Trail Australia was a bucketlist race, that she once thought was out of reach.
In todays episode, we share a few snippets from our post race debrief.
Ange and I discussed t…
Knee pain in runners is a common issue, however it can be both prevented and solved with the right approach.
Today Kriss talks through 6 key components that we incorporate when working through knee p…
Today Kriss is joined by SFE client Oliver, who recently completed the Coast to Coast path which runs from the west coast of England at St. Bee’s to the east coast at Robins Hood’s Bay.
Usually walke…
As much as we try to prevent injuries from occurring, we’re never going to eradicate injuries completely. The levels that we push our bodies to harbour too many variables and are often acute events t…
Today Kriss had the great pleasure of being joined by one of our current SFE athletes Jess, who was kind enough to share her journey.
As a triathlete Jess came to us after not being able to run for a…
Chasing our athletic goals (whether competitive or not) will require you to push your body, potentially harder than you ever have.
You will be tired, have great sessions and bad sessions, niggles wil…
Race season has well and truly arrived. Amongst the medals, finish line photos and race reflections, will be a few sore bodies.
But do we have the ability to reduce the level of muscle soreness we ex…
Over the last few years we have seen the introduction of another high intensity functional fitness based sport Hyrox.
Unlike it’s predecesor Crossfit, Hyrox offers a lower barrier of entry and runni…
Following on from last weeks episode on how to progress you strength training alongside your running, this week we go a bit more granular in terms of what this looks like.
Knowing how to increase an…