Hey listeners, Michael here. I'm trying something new here and releasing a preview clip of the full

episode that will be published on Thursday, so a couple of days from now. And let's see how this

work. And if it's a well-liked feature of the podcast, I will keep doing it or maybe I will

experiment with doing it after the main episode, but either way, this gives

you now a bit of a preview.

You can decide if that makes you want to listen to the full episode when it comes out on

Thursday, which of course I hope you will.

But here I've selected one of the, I think, core clips from the full episode, which is the

main principles for both me and Jack when it comes to

how to structure strength training during your base training season. So enjoy this clip,

and I hope you tune in for the full episode on Thursday.

Absolutely the first thing I think about, at least from an individual coaching perspective,

when coaching athletes

is there a certain propensity for injuries that the needs to be managed with strength

training because I think that for me 90% of athletes that have some kind of chronic injury

that needs management. It's strength training is what resolves the issue. There are some other things,

but mainly it's strength training. I think a lot of athletes believe that it's more about

stretching or mobility, that sort of thing. And I think it's often misattributed when it really

is strengthening that is required many, many of that types of injuries.

So that's, I guess, the first thing that I look at as a coach is, does the athlete have a

particular need to strengthen a particular muscle groups consistently? And then that's obviously

something you need to do. But other than that, I mean, a main thing for me with strength training and remembering or

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