The Progress Theory Roundtable 001: Which sports man/woman is the Greatest Of All Time?
Introducing the new Progress Theory Roundtable series!!
Each Progress Theory Roundtable will discuss a brand new topic set out at the start of the episode. These topics are meant to be subjective and challenging, allowing for different opinions to be shared. These topics can range from sport event reviews, contrasting styles of training, different sporting philosophies, and approaches to training & coaching.
In 001, @thepricep @daryl_green_ and @m.tyler_pt discuss who is the greatest sportsman or women of all time, and form their own Mt Rushmore of G.O.A.T's. Here they discuss the following:
- What qualities, both physical and mental, create the GOAT
- What separates the GOAT's selected for their respective Mt Rushmore and those that did not make the cut?
- What is a sporting Icon?
- Are we aware of our own bias when selecting who is the GOAT?
- Which GOAT got selected more than all the others?
Who would be on your Mt Rushmore of the G.O.A.T?
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Mentioned in this episode:
The Science of Hybrid Training
It was originally thought that you could not effectively train for both strength and endurance at the same time because they required different adaptations which were not compatible with each other. It was claimed that ‘an interference effect’, blunted the adaptations for strength if you simultaneously trained for endurance. However, recent developments in sports which require both strength and endurance have really challenged this idea, with hybrid athletes producing impressive performances in both strength and endurance sports together. This had led scientists, coaches, and athletes to rethink what is humanly possible and suggests the interference effect is not as influential as originally thought. But what is a hybrid athlete? What is the ‘interference effect’? And how can we maximize our training to improve at the same time our strength and endurance performance? In this book, Dr Phil Price provides insight into the misconceptions surrounding strength and endurance training by distilling the past 50 years of research and drawing on the conversations he had with great scientists, coaches, and athletes on The Progress Theory podcast. This book is essential reading for hybrid athletes and coaches who are looking to understand the key training variables and their effect on the simultaneous development of strength and endurance performance.
