Strength For Endurance Podcast

Updated: 09 May 2025 • 196 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 well respected strength coach Kriss Hendy will discuss what it takes to truly reach your potential, whether your sights are set on your first 10km or the professional stage. Kriss will be regularly joined by inspiring guests, from sport and training to business and academia. Ultimately we'll look to answer the question 'Is it possible to achieve long-term successful performance whilst maintaining optimal health and lifestyle-balance?'.... To find out more about training with Kriss, head over to www.strengthforendurance.com

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Chasing our athletic goals (whether competitive or not) will require you to push your body, potentially harder than you ever have. You will be tired, have great sessions and bad sessions, niggles will crop up - it won’t always be a linear trajectory. But there are things you can do to ensure you’ve got the best chance

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Race season has well and truly arrived. Amongst the medals, finish line photos and race reflections, will be a few sore bodies. But do we have the ability to reduce the level of muscle soreness we experience after an event? Can we do things that’ll allow us to recover quicker and get back into training sooner? In today

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Over the last few years we have seen the introduction of another high intensity functional fitness based sport Hyrox.  Unlike it’s predecesor Crossfit, Hyrox offers a lower barrier of entry and running based/aerobic background, naturally appealing to many endurance athletes. But can you train for an event like Hyrox at

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Following on from last weeks episode on how to progress you strength training alongside your running, this week we go a bit more granular in terms of what this looks like.  Knowing how to increase and adjust the weights you are lifting, and what number of  reps and sets you're doing, requires some consideration and for

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Progressing your strength training is essential if you want to keep meeting the demands of your running goals.  As you increase duration, intensity and distance in your running, if you don’t have the necessary strength and conditioning in your body, it simply won’t be able to stand up to the ever increasing demands, an

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Gone are the days where strength training was kept just for the off season, we all know the importance of having a year round approach. However this shouldn’t be the same approach all year round. Your strength training will ebb and flow depending on your goals, your overall training load and your need for recovery. Lis

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