World-class endurance coach Chris Hinshaw on increasing aerobic capacity, managing intensity, and prioritizing recovery

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4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Chris Hinshaw is one of the world's leading experts on endurance and aerobic capacity. He has trained 30 CrossFit Games champions, along with a series of Olympians, professional surfers, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champions. Chris sits down with Mike Lombardi to detail everything you need to know about increasing your own aerobic capacity and what training missteps you should avoid along the way. They discuss Chris' coaching style (2:36), the role coaches should play in working with athlet...

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0:00.0	What's up, folks?
0:05.9	Welcome back to the Whoop podcast, where we sit down with the best of the best, scientists, experts, athletes, and more to learn what the best in the world are doing to perform at their peak.
0:17.0	And what you can do to unlock your own best performance.
0:19.9	I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Whoop, where we are on a mission to unlock human performance. We got a great guest this week. Chris Hinshaw. Before we get to Chris, I'll remind you that you can get 15% off a Whoop membership if you use the code Will. That's just WI-L.L. Membership comes with the new Woop 4.0. Check that out at
0:40.4	Woop.com. Okay, Chris Hinshop, one of the world's leading experts on aerobic capacity. Chris has trained
0:48.1	30 CrossFit Games champions, along with a series of Olympians, professional surfers, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champions.
0:56.8	He draws on experience from his own athletic career as a world-class triathlete and all-American
1:02.2	swimmer to help athletes across many sports build up their endurance.
1:07.5	Chris shares everything you need to know about increasing your own aerobic capacity and what training
1:12.5	missteps you should avoid along the way. He sits down with Mike Lombardi to explain how you should
1:18.7	think about straight training if you're an endurance athlete, the relationship between intensity and
1:24.1	recovery. I think this is a really important theme. His coaching philosophies and why he's in
1:29.1	the athlete empowerment game, why it's important that athletes are taught to feel strain and
1:33.7	intensity in the moment, and how technology is helping athletes reach peaks that they have never
1:40.0	reached before. This is a great one. And without further ado, here are Mike and Chris.
1:47.9	Hi, everyone. Welcome to the Wu podcast, live at the CrossFit Games. I'm here with Chris Hinshaw.
1:54.6	He is probably best known for working with several CrossFit Games champions, runs aerobic
1:59.5	capacity in the space,
2:05.5	and personally, a former professional intra-athlete has really accomplished.
2:07.8	So I'm actually going to let Chris introduce himself a little bit.
2:10.0	I'm not good at introducing myself.
2:14.5	You know, a lot of the things that I did individually were so long ago.
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