Strength For Endurance Podcast

Updated: 31 Oct 2025 • 220 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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For many of us in the endurance community the sports we love to do are central to our lifestyles, they are part of our every day and the thought of an off season can be fairly daunting. Today Kriss looks at why the 'off season' (or period of significant de-load as he likes to call it) is so important, how it can be man

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One of the biggest miscinceptions amongst endurance athletes is  the notion that you do not need to develop upper body strength for running and cycling performance. Listen in as Kriss dispells this myth and showcases the significant performance gains that can be achieved from being stronger through your upper body.  (0

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When rehabilitating an injury, one of the most important variables to be managing is the amount of training you're continuing to do.  This variable will literally make or break the success of your recovery, as too little of the necessary work won't create enough stimulus and too much will likely overload you. Listen in

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GLP-1 weightloss medication has seen a surge of popularity within the general population over the last few years, and has so far shown success for many individuals seeking weightloss. But the desire for significant weightloss might not be the first thing you think of when working with endurance athletes, runners, cycli

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Zone 2, steady state training is deceptive. If you're someone who wants to run long, you'll know that building your aerobic engine is an essentail part of your training. But what many people don't understand is that they also need to build resilience in their body.  And this comes by incorporating qualities like power,

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We've all heard the saying, but what does it mean when it comes to our training?  Listen in as Kriss breaks down numerous examples of where people thought they were doing the right thing, but in fact were missing the clear details that allowed them to get back on track and see improvements quuickly. (00:00) Introductio

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