Strength For Endurance Podcast

Updated: 29 Aug 2025 • 211 episodes
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The Strength For Endurance Podcast explores the wins, challenges and lessons experienced in the pursuit of successful endurance performance. Each episode your host and owner of Strength For Endurance Kriss Hendy discusses what it takes to truly reach your potential and stay injury free, whether your sights are set on your first 10km or elite competition. From strength and conditioning to injury rehabilitation and preventing overtraining, Kriss is regularly joined by inspiring guests, from clients and coaches, to lecturers and research experts. Ultimately we look to answer the question ‘How can we achieve long-term successful endurance performance, whilst maintaining optimal health and lifestyle-balance?'…. To find out more about training with Kriss at Strength For Endurance, head over to www.strengthforendurance.com

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Hip pain spans a wide range of causes, levels of severity and recovery timelines. From chronic overuse injuries to acute trauma, and contributing factors including low energy availability and excess volumes of endurance training - issues around the hip are complex. In todays episode Kriss deep dives into his coaching e

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Long time SFE member Peter is passionate about ultra distance adventures - whether it’s hiking, cycling, skiing or running.  Today he joins us to talk about his most recent challenge - The Haute Route Pyrenees, which traverses the Pyrenees from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean Coast. Peters planned route would take hi

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A pro-activate approach to lower back & SI Joint pain If you've ever experienced lower back pain or SI Joint pain you'll know how debilitating it can be. It can halt your training and any progress you have made in it’s tracks - and seemingly out of the blue.  It’s time to flip your mindset and restore confidence in you

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We’ve got a great episode for you today, as Kriss is joined by recently crowned National Cross Country Mountain Bike Champion, Phil Pearce. Phil has had a fascinating journey up to this point, that has been built upon raw talent, pure grit and sheer determination.  Being self coached, chasing Strava segments and riding

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Many of us will have jobs that are physically demanding in their nature from gardeners and builders, to farmers and hospitality staff, the list goes on... High step counts, repetitive physical tasks or constant lifting - this type of work places a high demand on our body. So are we considering this load when we underta

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In the majority of other sports, S&C is an equally valued component of athletic performance. The associated benefits it has on performance and the biggest risks if not. So why in the broad spectrum of endurance sport is S&C still so diluted and undervalued?  Following a recent ultra-running “masterclas"s, where the exp

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