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Scott Johnston talks with Judd Van Sickle, Director of Sports Performance and Wellness at U.C. Davis. In this episode, they cover many topics including: performance implications of fat adaptation; the concept of Fat Max; aerobic glycolysis; use of power meters to track training load; and the lack of nuance that has occurred with the popularization of Zone 2 aerobic training.Contact Judd Van Sickle: https://health.ucdavis.edu/sports-medicine/our-team/judd-vansickle

Scott Johnston is joined today by David Goettler. David is a highly accomplished alpinist who has climbed six 8000 meter peaks without the use of supplemental oxygen, including Everest. David has amassed a unique and broad experience climbing in Earth's biggest mountain ranges.  Scott and David discuss the history of David's training since they started working together and over the past eight years.

Join host Scott Johnston as he chats with his coached athlete, professional ultra runner Tom Evans. Tom recently made a podium finish at the Black Canyon 100k in Arizona where he beat the course record along with the other two top finishers. Scott and Tom discuss the modulation of Tom’s training, and the essential distinction between capacity and utilization training. All of this forms the backdrop of how they work to ensure that the correct training for Tom is done in critical and essential time windows. 

In this episode, Scott Johnston outlines the common mistakes and misconceptions that derail training, and the methods and frameworks necessary to avoid these pitfalls. No training plan can predict your physical or psychological state. The best way to avoid these mistakes is to pay attention to the subtle signals your body is sending your brain, and to monitor your recovery. 

Training will not produce desired results if you don't allow sufficient recovery. If recovery is cut short before desired adaptations occur, this produces a negative effect on athletic performance. In this episode, coach Scott Johnston discusses characteristic signs the body gives during the recovery process, and some perceptive cues that he has used over the decades to assess training readiness both in himself, and in the athletes he coaches.  

Judd Van Sickle, Director of Sports Performance at UC Davis, discusses metabolic testing, fat adaptation, and aerobic deficiency. They explore topics such as maximizing fat utilization for endurance athletes, methods for metabolic testing and determining aerobic threshold, and the benefits of metabolic testing to reveal metabolic deficiencies.

In this episode Scott Johnston outlines the basic physiology of endurance training. He traces the historical timeline  of our contemporary understanding of how athletes and coaches have evolved their methods through empirical and anecdotal data  to understand the intersections between aerobic and anaerobic metabolism, and how endurance is best trained.For more information and a deeper dive, refer to our in-depth video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PP7GqpvIVWY  

In this episode Evoke coach Nikki LaRochelle interviews Scott Johnston in a conversation that ranges over some of Scott’s life experiences including overtraining, muscular endurance, and  a serious climbing accident that changed his life.  

This is a recording of a Coaches Corner that took place on January 17, 2023. Join Mike Foote, Jack Kuentzle, and Kylee Toth for a deep dive into how to make the most of ski training for aerobic development, speed work, and technique. 

In this episode, Scott Johnston talks with Kilian Jornet. Kilian needs no introduction in the mountain endurance world. But for those who are new to this, he is one of the most accomplished mountain endurance athletes in the world. Join them as they discuss the fundamental importance of long term training adaptations, and how Kilian and other highly successful athletes modulate their training over the weeks, months, years, and decades according to their individual biological talents and limitations.