Welcome to The Infirmary

The Podcast of Campfire Endurance Coaching

If you’re struggling, we hope something here can help

Knowledge is…Not Power, but Helpful

Coaching is great, but sometimes you just need to hear something a different way.

The Infirmary has been a long time coming, but we’re excited to bring you endurance and triathlon advice in a different way than what you hear from your coach, whether you work with us or not.

We hope these episodes will bring you assistance, insight, and, just maybe, a laugh or two.

Welcome to The Infirmary—we’ll try to get you feeling better soon.

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Episode 10: How to Develop Mastery in Endurance Sports
Episode 10: How to Develop Mastery in Endurance Sports

What is “mastery,” and how can we develop mastery in endurance sports? What even IS mastery? What does it look, sound, or feel like? In this episode, Chris walks through what mastery is and how you can begin to build mastery in your own sports.

If you’d like to learn this process through reading, check out our series on Mastery over on Medium. The link here is a friend link, so you’ll be able to read for free. Want the free PDF that helps you out with this? You can grab that here.

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five

And, finally, if you’d like to talk to us about coaching, we’d love to chat! You can book a free training analysis here, getting some outside eyes on what it is you are doing.

Episode 9: How To Get Lean and Fast at the Same Time w/Alex Larson
Episode 9: How To Get Lean and Fast at the Same Time w/Alex Larson

Chris sits down with Alex Larson of Alex Larson Nutrition (ALN) about how she ended up in this role, why training in a fasted state is so unproductive, how she works with clients and athletes to “support endurance athletes with practical and simple nutrition advice for lifelong health and performance,” (ALN’s mission), and a whole bunch of poop!

Alex talks with us about how she achieves behavior change with her athletes, why she would like to shift away from the word “diet,” and why restricting food isn’t the mindset we should adopt around eating and fueling.

You can find Alex at Alex Larson Nutrition and on Instagram and Facebook @alexlarsonnutrition, playing with three kids, or watching all the Star Wars intellectual property she can get her eyes on.

Episode 8: How Linsey Corbin Reviews a Year
Episode 8: How Linsey Corbin Reviews a Year

Linsey Corbin has been one of the most consistent professional triathletes of all time, qualifying for Kona 14 times, winning eight Ironman events, and managing to show up year after year even while dealing with Injury. Linsey walks us through her process for reviewing the past season and looking forward to the next year, and she shows us how she bridged that sport-specific process to her life outside of sport.

After we chat about year-in-review processes, we answer two questions from our Campfire Endurance athletes, one about knowing WHEN you should train again after a difficult session, and also if using a little barefoot running can help your run form.

If you are interested in becoming a Campfire athlete and being able to ask us anything you want (and maybe hear your question on the air), you can chat with us about one-to-one coaching, Team Campfire, or attending one of our camps. Book a free call here.

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