The Full Circle Podcast
The Full Circle Podcast offers listeners insights into topics and ideas pertaining to endurance sports training and racing. Hosted by Coach Laura Henry, this podcast releases episodes weekly and discusses training best practices, effective workouts, compelling research, coaching methodologies, physiology and recovery, and the best tools to help guide you unlock your potential and achieve your best performance.
The Full Circle Podcast is part of Full Circle Endurance, which is an endurance sports coaching company that serves athletes in many endurance sports, including triathlon, running, cycling, and open water swimming.
To learn more about how Full Circle Endurance can help you reach your goals, please visit us at: https://FullCircleEndurance.com/
Episodes
87 episodes
What Golf & the Masters Tournament Can Teach Endurance Athletes
At first glance, golf and endurance sports might seem like apples and tomatoes. However, they are more similar than you might imagine, and there are valuable lessons endurance athletes can glean from the sport of golf and the athletes who...
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Episode 86
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20:17
Strategies for Getting Faster in Open Water Swimming
A lot of multisport athletes who train for events that involve open water swimming leave a lot on the table in terms of speed and execution potential, and a lot of this stems from the fact that they are not training specifically enough for open...
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Episode 85
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30:16
When Can You Add More Training?
“When can I do more?”This is one of the most common questions we hear from athletes because most athletes are excited about and/or anxious about needing to do more in their training. However, the decision about whether or not to ad...
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Episode 84
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14:07
How to Avoid Getting Hit by a Car While Cycling
Outdoor riding season has come again. As the season changes from Winter to Spring, more cyclists and multisport athletes will be taking to the roads to get their training rides in. And with that, the risk of being hit by a car incre...
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Episode 83
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26:13
How to Train for a 5K
A 5K is often the first distance that new runners train for. It’s a wonderful distance to run and there are many, many 5K race options to choose from!Once you’ve set a goal to run a 5K, it can feel tricky or even overwhelming to fi...
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Episode 82
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21:17
How Fast Can You Get Faster? The Truth About Speed Gains
It’s the question at the forefront of almost all athletes’ minds: “When will I be faster?”The truthful answer is nuanced and somewhat complicated. Therefore, it’s probably not the answer that most athletes want to hear. That ...
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Episode 81
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21:06
How to Make Time for Training & Goals
Endurance sports goals don’t achieve themselves. They require time, effort, and hard work.The average age-group athlete is a busy person who has a lot of demands competing for their time. However, the average age-group athlet...
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Episode 80
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15:12
Can You Stop Your Garmin at 4.98 Miles?
Can you stop your Garmin at 4.98 miles?If you’re like 98% of the athletes we’ve worked with over the years, you can’t. Or rather…you won’t.We’re going to dive into why you should consider stopping that Garmin whenever your w...
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Episode 79
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18:22
You're More Thirsty in the Winter Than You Think
Think you don’t need to bring hydration with you on Winter workouts?Think again.You need hydration in the Winter just as much as you do in the Summer. But a whole plethora of unfortunate biological circumstances makes you fe...
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Episode 78
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20:09
What is the Purpose of Indoor Workouts?
Some athletes dread indoor workouts. Others relish in them. Irrespective of the time of year or how one feels about them, what is the true purpose of indoor workouts?Read this Article:
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Episode 77
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21:50
Struggling with Finding Motivation to Do Workouts? Here’s What to Do.
While a lack of motivation can strike any time of year, it seems to hit endurance athletes hardest during the Winter months. If you are struggling to find the motivation to do workouts, don’t despair or beat yourself up about it. In...
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Episode 76
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9:27
Finding Hope During Injuries, Illnesses, & Setbacks
Are you currently injured, sick, or experiencing some other setback that is keeping you from training?The patience required to navigate times like these is very, very real. At times, it can feel like time has stood still and like t...
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Episode 75
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14:03
How to Return to Training After an Injury
Unfortunately, almost all endurance athletes will sustain an injury at some point in their endurance sports journey. When this happens, it’s important to take a pragmatic approach both to managing the injury itself and to one’s return to ...
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Episode 74
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29:34
Why an Annual Training Plan Makes the Difference Between Making & Missing Goals
Athletes often consider the workouts that they do on a day-to-day basis, but they don’t necessarily consider how those workouts build up over time and how workouts completed today and this week impact other workouts six months or more in the fu...
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Episode 73
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16:16
How to Find the Right Running Shoes
How do you find the right running shoes? It may seem simple at face value, but it’s actually a deceptive process and can be trickier than it initially appears. But there's good news! Once you understand some basic eleme...
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Episode 72
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37:23
Goal Setting Strategies that Actually Work
The end of a year or season often prompts athletes to reflect on their past season and to consider what goals they would like to set in the future. There is plenty of advice out there about how to set goals, but unfortunately, a lot of th...
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Episode 71
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17:51
Coach Laura's Top 9 Nonfiction Books of 2024
Coach Laura gives an overview of the nine best nonfiction books she read in 2024!Read this Article: https://www....
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Episode 70
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18:08
Coach Laura's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2024
Coach Laura gives an overview of the 10 best fiction books she read in 2024!Read this Article:https://www.fullcircleend...
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Episode 69
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16:59
Top 10 Blog Articles of 2024
Full Circle Endurance posted 88 new articles on our blog in 2024, and we have over 586 blog posts in our archives from almost a decade of writing. These are the blog posts that readers connected with the most in 2024!#1 ...
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Episode 68
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7:24
Top 5 Podcast Episodes of 2024
The Full Circle Podcast officially launched for the first time in January 2024. Over the course of the year, 69 episodes were published. Some of them really resonated with listeners! We decided to share the Top 5 Episodes of t...
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Episode 67
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5:55
The Best Gear Tips Learned from 15+ Years of Being a Runner, Cyclist, & Triathlete
After 15+ years of being a runner, cyclist, and triathlete as well as having coached hundreds of individual endurance athletes to goals of all shapes and sizes, Coach Laura has tested out many gear items and seen many athletes do the same. ...
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Episode 66
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14:51
Treadmill Running: Is the Treadmill Really the Dreadmill?
Treadmills have become a popular tool for athletes and exercise enthusiasts alike. While they certainly do confer some benefits, they also have some significant drawbacks. It’s important for endurance athletes choosing to leverage t...
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Episode 65
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14:40
How to Dress for Winter & Cold Weather Workouts
Cooler temperatures usher in a new season of apparel for endurance athletes. When the temperatures drop, what to wear for a workout becomes a big question that athletes wrestle with. However, deciding what garments to wear during Wi...
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Episode 64
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22:04
Why Winter & Off-Season Training is Vital for Endurance Athletes
The Off-Season is often mistakenly thought of as unimportant. Nothing could be further from the truth. Training in the Off-Season and Winter season is a vitally important component of overall training for endurance athletes and is w...
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Episode 63
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14:02
What to Modify in Training When Things Change or Don’t Unfold as Expected
The only certainty in endurance sports - as in life - is uncertainty. A paradox, to be sure. But the truth, nevertheless.Try as we might, we cannot accurately foresee all that will happen in our lives. (And this - the h...
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Episode 62
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