The Full Circle Podcast

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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“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…

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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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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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 proble…

Workout logs are an undervalued part of endurance training.  Workout logs provide a more complete and full picture of what actually happened in a given workout, and these details help athletes and co…

A negative split is almost like a character from mythology in the world of running; it’s something that everyone talks about with reverence, but relatively few athletes see them or experience them re…

Coach Laura discusses the books she read in March 2024 and how she’s going to implement what she learned into her coaching and training.

Non-Fiction:
Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strengt…

Transition has been called the “fourth discipline” of triathlon, and with good reason.  In triathlon - or any other multisport discipline (such as duathlon, aquabike, or aquathlon) - time spent in Tr…

More times that they realize - and perhaps more times than they’d like to admit - athletes get away with poor habits and behaviors.  Contrary to what they may think (or tell themselves), just because…

“Push down, pull up” is a cue that has been passed around the cycling world like popcorn at the movies.  While it’s extremely common advice, it’s actually extremely incorrect advice.  Unfortunately, …

Stick around the endurance sports world long enough, and you’ll probably get the bug to sign up for a race that requires travel or you’ll travel somewhere where you’ll want to train.  Thoughtfully co…

The terms “pace” and “effort” are often used interchangeably by athletes.  This isn’t a good practice or habit to get into because in the world of endurance sports, “pace” and “effort” are not the sa…

All too often, athletes get caught up in the granular elements of their training, such as individual workouts.  This is a trap, because training isn’t about individual workouts.  Training is about im…

Maybe you’ve heard of it.  Maybe you’ve even done it.  But do you actually know why people say foam rolling is good for athletes?

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Once you start hanging around endurance athletes and become part of the endurance sports community, your definition of what “normal” is starts to shift, especially when it comes to goal setting.  Kee…

What is stretching, really?  Why is stretching touted as such an important component of endurance training?  Is it worthy of all of the hype?  In a word: Yes.  But what stretching actually is, exactl…

Coach Laura discusses the books she read in February 2024 and how she’s going to implement what she learned into her coaching and training.

Non-Fiction:

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals…

Properly conducting an FTP Test is essential for athletes who desire to train by power in cycling.  Understanding exactly what an FTP Test is and what is being assessed in this workout are the first …

No matter what endurance sport or event an athlete is training for, periodization is the architecture of any solid training plan.  Coach Laura dives into exactly what periodization is and the best pr…