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 Brute Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness. |
| 0:08.4 | We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset. |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach, 2012 and 2013 CrossFit Games Channel, Michael Cajou. |
| 0:19.6 | Mind, Body, brute. |
| 0:26.2 | Hey, and welcome back. |
| 0:27.5 | My name is Mike Cashew, and you're listening to the Brute Strength Podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | This is episode five of six in the What Is Brute Podcast series. |
| 0:35.1 | In episode one, I told you the basic idea behind why we created Brute in the |
| 0:39.0 | first place. We wanted to create a team of experts that would collaborate with one another |
| 0:43.4 | to produce the best possible programming for our athletes in the sport of fitness. |
| 0:48.2 | In episode two, you heard from our director of strength and conditioning, Nick Fowler, |
| 0:52.0 | episode three, weightlifting with Matt Bruce, |
| 0:55.0 | episode four, gymnastics with Dr. Nick Sorrell. |
| 0:59.0 | And today, you're going to hear from the head of brute endurance, Chris Henshaw. |
| 1:04.8 | Chris has worked with dozens of CrossFit Games athletes such as Matt Frazier, |
| 1:08.7 | Katrin David's daughter, Camille LeBlombazine, |
| 1:11.7 | Rich Fronning, Brooke Wells, Jason Kalipa, and many, many more. |
| 1:16.1 | In general, in CrossFit gyms, we rarely train what's called our aerobic capacity, |
| 1:22.9 | which is trained through longer low intensity training than your typical Metcon. So his ability to train this in a variety of different movements is one of the things that makes |
| 1:33.3 | him the most successful endurance coach in the sport of fitness. |
| 1:36.3 | A, he's able to get his athletes to be more consistent by constantly varying the workouts |
| 1:43.3 | and making them more fun. |
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