Welcome back everyone, the Progress Theory podcast returns in 2021. Today we start off the year with a roundtable episode where @thepricep @dgcoaching and @m.tyler_pt discuss the comfort zone, every influencer’s favourite buzzword. Let’s be honest, do we often say we’re outside our comfort zone when in reality we’re not? The comfort zone boundary is going to be different for everyone so what can we do to understand where it is. Surely our own understanding of our comfort zone is what is going to help us continuously challenge ourselves?

In this episode we cover (Comfort zone talk starts at 13:00):

· What activities we feel are outside of our comfort zone

· Do people misinterpret hard work for being outside of their comfort zone?

· How we define outside of the comfort zone?

· Is there such thing as being too far out of your comfort zone?

· Advice for managing moving inside and outside of your comfort zone?

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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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