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Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Episode 288: Long vs Short Runs, Training Steep Terrain, & Shin Splints

Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Zach Bitter

Fitness, Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.8622 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This episode of listener inspired questions/topics includes:

1) Is it better to do fewer runs of longer distance, or more frequent runs of shorter distance?

2) How do you prepare for a steep technical course while living in the flatlands?

3) How to deal with shin splints? 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter.

0:09.8

All right, folks, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.

0:13.7

I am your host, Zach Bitter.

0:15.1

And today I am bringing you a listener-inspired Q&A topic- based episode. So this one will be solo with just

0:24.8

me on it. And I'm going to go through a few questions that got sent my way over the weeks.

0:30.6

Actually, I got quite a few sent over this week. So I'm going to focus in on three of them.

0:34.2

If I don't hit on one you sent in, just wait a little bit because I'll

0:39.2

be doing another one of these in short time and I will include them in the order in which they

0:43.9

came in. So for this particular episode, the three questions I am going to focus on have to do

0:50.6

with less frequent longer runs versus more frequent shorter runs when programming

0:58.2

your endurance training schedule. My advice on preparing for steep climbs and technical

1:05.3

rocky trails if the area you live in does not have access to either of these.

1:16.3

And then finally, dealing with shin splints, how do you fix them?

1:16.9

How do we avoid them? That sort of thing.

1:17.5

So those are going to be the three topics that we kind of touch on for this one.

1:21.4

And if you do have questions that you'd like me to address on one of these episodes,

1:25.6

feel free to reach out.

1:26.9

The show email is HPO podcast at gmail.com.

1:31.1

You can also send them to me on social media platforms.

1:34.5

Oftentimes on Twitter where my, my handles at Z-Bitter, I'll throw up a question every once in a while, just making a call for questions too.

1:42.5

So if you find one of those floating around, feel free to drop them in the comment section

1:46.3

on there.

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