Ep. 31: Shane Wallen - How to Specify Training for Your Sport
In Pursuit
MeatEater
4.9 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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In this episode of In Pursuit, Rich Froning sits down with former professional strength coach Shane Wallen (Detroit Tigers, Chicago Cubs, 49ers) and Angelo Dicicco. The crew dives into the "art" of, and frustration behind, effective, high-level fitness programming, sharing insights from training elite athletes to developing custom routines for intense, brutal workouts. Rich also reflects on applying decades of training wisdom to backcountry hunting preparation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to Meat Eaters 12 and 26 presented by Moultry Mobile and OnX Maps. |
| 0:10.3 | 12 of Meat Eaters' biggest and baddest hunts from the last year released throughout |
| 0:15.0 | 2026. These are long-form episodes so you get more of what you love. |
| 0:20.1 | The first one up is my baited bear hunt in Manitoba. |
| 0:23.4 | If you've ever wondered what a baited bear hunt is like, you'll love this episode. |
| 0:28.2 | My favorite part was watching a younger bear spend an hour trying to figure out how to get a creatively hung beaver carcass down from a tree. |
| 0:36.5 | Check it out now on Meat Eaters YouTube channel and be on |
| 0:39.5 | the lookout for more 12 and 26 in the coming months. Programming is an art. It's an art for |
| 0:45.5 | and it's something that like I get frustrated with a lot, but like I deeply appreciate |
| 0:50.8 | after being in the profession for 10 years it's like I'll still you know |
| 0:54.7 | I'll still spend four hours like I spent four hours doing Bryce Bryce Harper's program like |
| 1:00.4 | last weekend when I was in Austin and I was like piss I'm like why does this take so long? |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah because you care you care yeah you want this to be perfect for every athlete that you |
| 1:09.8 | know that you come across. |
| 1:14.5 | Out here, the stakes are real. |
| 1:17.6 | Effective preparation starts with fitness, but it requires so much more. |
| 1:22.3 | This show explores the tools, knowledge, resilience, and skills needed to be ready when it matters the most. |
| 1:29.2 | Join me, Rich Broning, as we apply the decades of wisdom I have gained through training |
| 1:34.0 | and competition to hunting in the backcountry. |
| 1:37.9 | This is In Pursuit. |
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