Hey, what's up everyone? It's your host, Mario Freole. We are back with a fresh episode

of the Morning Shakeout podcast. I am stoked to be back on the mic here to help me introduce

this one is my right hand man, Chris Douglas, who you may or may not remember from AMA episodes

of years past. Chris, always great to sit down and chat with you. Yeah, I'm super stoked

for this, for this episode and for this series. So why don't you tell us a little bit about

what we're going to be listening to today. Yeah, you just, you just gave it away. This

episode is going to be the first in a four part series that I am calling the pillars of

performance. And for me, the four pillars of running performance are the training itself.

You got to put in the work in order to improve as a runner and the right kind of work.

Yes, yes, put in some work. That is a key component. But one of the pillars that kind of holds

this up. The second is going to be kind of a combo, strengthen conditioning, just basically

building a better athlete. And then what goes hand in hand with that is just the maintenance

and work required to handle all of this work that you're putting in. And for that episode,

we are going to have Ein Buie, Dr. Ein Buie, Dr. Physical Therapy and Certified Strength

and Conditioning Coach, who is going to help walk us through that. The third component

is the mental side of it, the mental training performance skills to help you get the best

out of yourself in training and racing. And for that conversation, we're going to sit

down, or I'm going to sit down with Dr. Justin Ross, who's a certified sports psychologist

out of Colorado. I'm pumped to have that conversation with him. He's someone I've corresponded

with over the years. So I'm really looking forward to sharing that one with everyone. And

then the last component is going to be nutrition, both from a day to day standpoint, recovery.

And then in some instances, during training and racing itself, and I don't have that guest

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