188. Tempo Runs Explained, Men vs. Women Mileage, Answering Listener Questions, and Debating AI in Medicine!
Some Work, All Play
David Roche and Megan Roche
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
We ate the world's largest lunches to get ready for this awesome episode! The main training discussion was on tempo running. What even is a tempo? Coaches and physiologists all disagree, leaving athletes in an uncertain spot. We cut through the noise with the help of a 2019 study looking at what training elements most strongly correlate with long-term growth.
We also answered some amazing listener questions! Should men and women train at different mileage? Do NSAIDs impact adaptation? The final question is one you need to hear rather than read, but here's a hint: it involves superstitions in the bedroom. JUICY.
And there were tons of other fun discussions! Topics: creation for its own sake, our progress on writing a sci-fi novel, how threshold training should feel, the importance of big lunches, the least important training element and how athletes may be making big mistakes without realizing it, a follow-up on continuous lactate monitors, a debate on AI and medicine, creatine supplementation after COVID, and hot takes.
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| 0:00.0 | Whoa! |
| 0:01.0 | Whoa! |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to the Some Work All Play Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | We are so happy to do with you today. |
| 0:05.0 | Happy Tuesday. |
| 0:06.0 | It's Tuesday. |
| 0:07.0 | And the creative juices are flowing over here on this Tuesday. |
| 0:10.0 | Megan, I'm a little bit nervous when you say the word juice to start the podcast with our history of fluids on this episode, but what do you think? |
| 0:16.7 | Well, I'm thinking that your creative juices are flowing and I'm just like tapping into that sweet, sweet nectar. |
| 0:21.7 | In what way are my creative juicy swelling? |
| 0:23.6 | Okay, because you're writing a freaking novel. |
| 0:25.8 | Oh my God, you're starting it off with that? |
| 0:27.8 | Yeah, because that's like the coolest shit in the world. |
| 0:29.8 | How would you not start a podcast off with that? |
| 0:32.4 | What it means the world too? We've talked on here before about I've |
| 0:35.3 | always wanted to write a novel we are considering even writing one together but |
| 0:38.8 | just out of the blue last Wednesday I woke up in the middle of the night with an idea fully formed and fleshed out that I never thought about before. |
| 0:46.0 | It's sci-fi, it's comedy, it's a little bit of philosophy. |
| 0:49.0 | It might be totally bad, but I started writing a few hundred words a day and we're pretty far into it at this point. |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah, I love that you're saying we because like my involvement in this novel is yesterday I like |
| 0:58.8 | heard it for the first time so I was in the bathtub after an elliptical workout and it was like one of the best moments of my life |
| 1:05.1 | I was sitting there post workout like full of endorphins and you come in and you just read me this novel that's like a |
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