What is Brute: Endurance Training for the CrossFit Athlete ft. Chris Hinshaw
The Michael Caz Podcast
Michael Cazayoux
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the What is Brute series, I’m speaking with the legend that is Chris Hinshaw. There is a reason why CrossFit HQ selected Chris as their Subject Matter Expert in Aerobic Capacity. When it comes to endurance training, Chris is your guy. He has coached several of CrossFit’s most elite athletes including Mat Fraser, Rich Froning, Brooke Wells, and Katrin Davidsdottir. In this episode we’ll be getting into Chris’ philosophy for endurance training, strategies for increasing your work capacity, and finally some of his most memorable moments as a Brute Coach. It’s time you embrace the suck, and own your training, without further ado, I present to you, Chris Hinshaw. Enjoy the show.
Topics:
02:20 - Developing confidence in athletes
03:45 - Know your why
05:17 - Endurance training philosophy
11:09 - Collaborative coaching
14:05 - Confidence as a coach
15:20 - Memorable moments
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.0 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, |
| 0:15.0 | 2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ, |
| 0:18.0 | Michael Kaju. |
| 0:19.0 | Mind, Body, Brute. body, brute. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey and welcome back. My name is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | This is episode five of six and the What is Brute podcast series. |
| 0:34.8 | In episode one I told you the basic idea behind why we created Brute in the first |
| 0:39.2 | place. We wanted to create a team of experts that would collaborate with one another to produce the best possible programming for our athletes in the sport of fitness. |
| 0:48.0 | In episode two you heard from our director of strength and conditioning Nick Fowler, episode three, weightlifting with Matt Bruce, episode |
| 0:55.4 | four, gymnastics with Dr Nick Sorrell. |
| 0:59.2 | And today you're going to hear from the head of Brute Endurance, |
| 1:03.5 | Chris Henshaw. |
| 1:04.7 | Chris has worked with dozens of CrossFit Games |
| 1:07.2 | athletes such as Matt Frazier, Katron, David Stotter, |
| 1:09.9 | Camille Blombezine, Rich Phroning, Brooke Wells, |
| 1:13.1 | Jason Kalipa, and many, many more. |
| 1:16.1 | In general, in Cross Fit gems, we rarely train |
| 1:19.9 | what's called our aerobic capacity, which is trained through longer low intensity |
| 1:25.3 | training than your typical Metcon. So his ability to train this in a variety of |
| 1:30.6 | different movements is one of the things that makes him the most successful |
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