Interview with Henry Abbott -Sports Journalist and Author
Marathon Training Academy
Angie and Trevor
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🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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In this episode we interview Henry Abbott -sports journalist and author of the book ‘Ballistic, The New Science of Injury-Free Athletic Performance’. Plus, we run down our 7,000 mile road trip across the USA!
Henry Abbott is an award-winning journalist and founder of TrueHoop. He led ESPN’s 60-person NBA digital and print team, which published several groundbreaking articles and won a National Magazine Award. He lives in New Jersey. In the book, Ballistic, he blends cutting-edge science with gripping storytelling and argues that we are on the cusp of a new era in sports medicine, built around the science of ballistic movements―leaping and landing―and the unique fingerprint of your body’s physics.
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Book: Ballistic- The New Science of Injury-Free Athletic Performance by Henry Abbott
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| 1:14.5 | Hey, hey, welcome to the Marathon Training Academy podcast, helping you master injury-free long-distance running. |
| 1:15.4 | I'm Trevor. |
| 1:16.1 | And I'm Angie. |
| 1:25.3 | In this episode, we interview Henry Abbott, a sports journalist and author of the book, Ballistic, The New Science of Injury-Free Athletic Performance. |
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