Lean from the Best. Endurance sports. Resources for coaches and athletes.
Revere Greist
1. The Science of Sports (Ross Tucker)
Ross Tucker is a world-renowned sports scientist, professor.
Ross has consulted with a number of teams in high-performance sport, including South Africa Sevens, South Africa Kayaking, South Africa Triathlon, USA triathlon, and the UK Olympic Committee. Ross holds a Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology studying fatigue, the brain, and the limits to performance, including a lot of pacing strategy work in hot environments and altitude. His current research interests include the physiology of East African runners, high-performance culture, talent identification and management, the limits of human performance, and performance and wellness in companies.
2. Stephen Seiler
Stephen Seiler (Professor in Sports Science, University of Agder, Norway).
- Research consultant, Norwegian Olympic Federation since 2011
- Executive Board Member European College of Sport Science
- Fellow American College of Sports Medicine.
Stephen is known for his research on how elite endurance athletes actually train.
3. Outside blog / Alex Hutchinson
Alex Hutchinson is an Outside columnist, author of the book "Endure. Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance".
Alex is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist who writes about the science of endurance for Runner's World and Outside and frequently contributes to other publications such as the New York Times and the New Yorker. A former long-distance runner for the Canadian national team.
https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/
4. Asker Jeukendrup
Asker Jeukendrup is a professor of exercise metabolism, performance consultant in elite sport, entrepreneur, keen endurance athlete multiple Ironman finisher (incl 6x Kona). Asker mainly focuses on sports nutrition issues.
5. Øyvind Sandbakk
Professor and Managing Director with the Centre for Elite Sports Research at Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Øyvind Sandbakk is the head of research and development at the Norwegian Olympic Sports Center (Olympiatoppen). His research is within exercise physiology and biomechanics, strength and endurance training, and utilization of new technology to gain further understanding of these aspects in real-life environments.
6. Martin Gibala
Professor McMaster University (Canada) and bestselling author of The One-Minute Workout.
His main interest is the physiology of exercise, including the effects of training and nutrition and application to health and performance.
7. Paul Laursen
Physiologist / Sport Scientis / Coach / Technologist.
Paul Larsen is a former lead of physiology for New Zealand Olympic athletes and adjunct professor of exercise physiology at Auckland University of Technology. World renown specialist in high-intensity interval training, low-carb diets, ketosis, heart rate variability, thermal physiology, health and artificial intelligence.
Paul published over 135 scientific manuscripts, with work cited more than 10,000 times.
Competed in 17 Ironman triathlons, while relishing the art of coaching both professional and age-group athletes.
8. Steve Magness
Steve Magness is an author of "Peak Performance", "The Passion Paradox", and "The Science of Running".
Coach to Olympians, World Championship qualifiers, and six individual Top 10 finishers at Major Marathons (Boston, NY, Chicago).
Steve Magness is a performance coach, author, and lecturer. He currently serves as a coach to almost 20 professional runners, is the Head Cross Country coach at the University of Houston
9. Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones is a professor of Applied Physiology & Assistant Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Exeter (UK).
Andrew ranks among the world’s top running physiologists. For many years, he tested and advised Paula Radcliffe.
Andrew Jones is famous for his study of beetroot as it relates to a runner’s performance. He was the major scientific adviser with Nike’s sub-2 hour marathon project.
About the author
Revere Greist
Revere Greist is the COO and Co-Founder of Zihi, AI-based endurance sports training platform. With more than 20 years in endurance sports and Kona AG 8th place he is fond of sport science and the most effective ways to be fit for a race.
MBA, COO
Madison, WI