The Legend Series is back for Round 2. This time we're joined by health coach and running coach Dr Bernie Dancy. This episode gets quite personal as Bernie and @thepricep talk about their past experiences with stress and how that has led them to perceive and manage stress today. We're all looking to improve our training and physical health through our programming, but if our lifestyle, (and therefore our stress) isn't managed, we don't have the foundation to allow training to improve performance. In this episode we cover:

- Our past experiences, particularly events which happened during our PhD study, which led stressful factors become too overwhelming

- Stress and academia. How driven and ambitious people may be more susceptible to situations where stress become hard to manage.

- How training is great for improving health, but it is still a stress that needs to be managed appropriately with all the other stressors.

- What you can do if you feel it's all becoming too overwhelming

If you feel like you could benefit from a health coach and want to learn more about stress management, check out Bernie's website: www.bernadettedancy.co.uk , follow her on Instagram (@bernadettedancy_healthcoach) and her brand new podcast 'Movement and Mind' https://www.bernadettedancy.co.uk/podcast

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The Science of Hybrid Training

It was originally thought that you could not effectively train for both strength and endurance at the same time because they required different adaptations which were not compatible with each other. It was claimed that ‘an interference effect’, blunted the adaptations for strength if you simultaneously trained for endurance. However, recent developments in sports which require both strength and endurance have really challenged this idea, with hybrid athletes producing impressive performances in both strength and endurance sports together. This had led scientists, coaches, and athletes to rethink what is humanly possible and suggests the interference effect is not as influential as originally thought. But what is a hybrid athlete? What is the ‘interference effect’? And how can we maximize our training to improve at the same time our strength and endurance performance? In this book, Dr Phil Price provides insight into the misconceptions surrounding strength and endurance training by distilling the past 50 years of research and drawing on the conversations he had with great scientists, coaches, and athletes on The Progress Theory podcast. This book is essential reading for hybrid athletes and coaches who are looking to understand the key training variables and their effect on the simultaneous development of strength and endurance performance.

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