Training Tips for Your Next Adventure with Joe Holder

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Joe Holder is a Nike Master Trainer and GQ fitness columnist with a track record of coaching elite athletes and high profile clients. Grounded in a background in health and wellness, he brings a practical approach to endurance training and overall fitness. His work spans marathon training, thru hike preparation, and strategies to support long term health and performance.

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0:00.0	You really do have to think about it as a journey.
0:04.5	That's what, you know, health and wellness is to me.
0:06.7	It's like a lifelong journey with different benchmarks along the way.
0:10.0	It's like our own personal art and design practice.
0:12.7	I think everybody should just move.
0:14.5	And I just want to be able to open that up in as many different ways as I can to people.
0:20.9	Joe Holder is an influential voice in the fitness world.
0:24.8	After studying health and wellness in college, Joe became a Nike master trainer, a
0:29.4	columnist for GQ, and he has a long track record of working with famous athletes and celebrities.
0:35.3	I met Joe a couple of years ago at the Running Man Festival in Georgia,
0:39.6	where he and I had a chance to connect and geek out on training and nutrition.
0:44.0	It struck me that Joe's unique academic and athletic perspective would be valuable to share
0:48.9	with all of you. So today's episode is a bit different from our usual format. My conversation with Joe focuses on the details of training and staying healthy,
0:58.6	whether you're running a marathon, planning a through hike,
1:01.7	or you just want to optimize your own health and fitness.
1:05.0	I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is Wild Ideas Worth Living,
1:08.6	an REI Co-op Studios production presented by Capital One and the REI Co-Op MasterCart.
1:18.0	Joe Holder, welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living. I'm excited to speak with you again.
1:23.3	Yeah, yeah, pleasure. Thanks for having me, show.
1:25.2	It was fun to chat with you at Running Man in Atlanta, Georgia, and I was really impressed.
1:29.8	You have a really interesting background, and one of the coolest descriptions I've ever heard of you is a health and wellness anthropologist.
1:38.4	Just give us a little background.
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