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

All right, everyone.

Welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.

I'm excited today to be releasing the first of what is going to be a series of episodes

where I highlight just kind of

the scaffolding and then some basic examples of how I go through a training cycle, both on the

preparation from the training side of things, as well as my nutritional approach to those different

phases of the training cycle. So this is going to be a four-part

series where I outline in the four main categories that I would consider the cycle that I go

through when I'm training for ultramarathons. That is my off-season, my base building phase,

my speedwork development phase, and then ultimately my ultramarathon long run

development phase. So I list them and label them like that because I am typically peaking for

and training for races that are likely around the 100 mile distance. And I do follow an approach

when it comes to training philosophy, whether

you're training for shorter endurance events, like Olympic distance stuff, or if you're doing

longer ultramarathons like mine, the order of operations tends to be an important piece to that

in terms of being it's not as much about whether you should or should not do a specific workout.

It's more about when maybe you should do it.

So I say that just to highlight when I go through this four-part series and I touch on these

different parts of the training cycle, I am following that approach and I'm following that

approach in effort to target a duration or intensity that would be something similar to what I've done

for 100 miles in the past. So that's kind of the context of all of it. I also want to encourage

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