Basically, we can improve our performance without affecting to our V-O-2 max or to our Arctic threshold.

By just including strength training on our training plans, we can improve our running economy, our efficiency,

and therefore we can improve our performance.

The Treflon Show, 117.

Thank you. That Traathlon Show, 117. Hey, what's up everybody, and welcome back to another episode of That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

I'm your host, Michael, and on today's episode I interview Jordan Santos, who is associate professor at the University of a Basque country in Spain, and we'll discuss a variety of topics related to running science

like how to best estimate the lactate threshold in running periodization and training intensity

distribution running economy how important it is and how you can improve it in practice. We go deeper into

strength training and its impact on running performance. And we talk about predictors of running

performance that are both physiological and not physiological in some cases.

Jordan has done and supervised research in all of these areas and has a ton of

knowledge about the science in running and is a very good athlete himself, as you'll hear in the

interview when we discuss V-O-2 Max for a bit. And it's also worth mentioning that he has worked with Professor Tim Noakes and Dr. Ross Tucker,

two of the most famous sports scientists in the world, when he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cape Town.

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