What's up, Motivators? Today's podcast guest, a really good one. And NTK is going to have a lovely

time editing this because Kate Baldwin is an Aussie. She loves that Aussie accent. Kate Baldwin has a PhD.

She has degrees in sports science and physiotherapy. She is a new mum and she and her husband are the

founders of endurance movement.

How I came across Kate was a study that she did that was a huge study,

26 weeks of studying athletes, triathletes, with strength training.

How did strength training improve or not their triathlon performance?

And spoiler alert, it ended up greatly increasing their performance. And we've all kind of known this.

But the fact that she designed this enormous study, anything past eight to ten weeks is

typically very, very rare because controlling variables over that length of time

is really hard to do. So to do something over the course of 26 weeks, really very impressive.

I came across this study, reached out to her, and we've been kind of courting doing this podcast

over, I think, three to four months because she's a new mom

and has been very busy taking care of her new child. Now, we ended up finally getting together

and the weight was worth it. Really very interesting information about strength training,

what's important to do in strength training,

and what is and isn't true in strength train. The gist of this is largely that strength training

is still very underrated. Despite the entire endurance world still talking about it, people look at it

as something that they should add on and maybe add on and maybe if I've got time to do it.

But it's just so, so clear that it's a performance enhancer, not just in triathlon and endurance sports, but in life as well.

So we talk about all of that in a great chat here.

And I'm sure there's going to be a round two because just a great chat.

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