The Science of Performance with Dan Feeney

Oct 17 2024 13 ep. 51 mins 18

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Welcome to "The Science of Performance," hosted by the trailblazing Dan Feeney, BOA Sr. Director of Partner Product Design and Innovation and supported by the Freetrail Network, this captivating podcast takes you on a journey into peak performance in trail running.
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S2E6: Lived Experience; Big Data and Predictive Analytics in making humans healthier

Oct 17 2024 57 mins

https://www.jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospt.2022.11288 - the missing link in running injury research is non-running stress. It seems DashLX is one solution to start acquiring more of what consumers are doing, why, and that has great implications for research but also for brands to better understand their consumers. Using wearable technology data to explain recreational running inj

S2E5: The Physiology of Peak Performance with Olympian & PhD Shalaya Kipp

Oct 10 2024 46 mins

The Physiology of Peak Performance with Olympian & PhD Shalaya KippCurrently Post Doc Mayo Clinic with Michael JoynerPhD - University of British Columbia, Masters & Undergrad at CU Boulder. 2012 Olympian in steeplechase. Worked on the 4% study in conjunction with the breaking 2 project. Now works with Mike Joyner who made a famous prediction of when 2 hours would be broken

S2E4: Ski Boots! Engineering Revolutionary Products with James O’Connell

Oct 03 2024 41 mins

Season 2 Episode 4: Ski Boots! Engineering Revolutionary Products with James O’Connell – Specialized, formerly K2 Engineer; Medic and Paratrooper, Texas A&MHow to measure ski boot performance and biomechanics https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7967377/Ski boot biomechanics part 2 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-013-0132-zSki boot BOA study: https:

S2E3: How do your biomechanics affect your performance and injury risk? With Allison Gruber

Sep 26 2024 58 mins

Episode 3: How do your biomechanics affect your performance and injury risk? With Allison Gruber – Associate Professor University of Indiana. PhD UMass Amherst and Masters East Carolina. Has worked deeply on the entire spectrum of running mechanics. from the mechanics and energetics of footfall patterns in running Impact causes injury hypothesis – Claire Milner impact shoc

S2E2: How to make better shoes with Dr. Geoffrey Gray

Sep 19 2024 54 mins

Doctor of Physical Therapy for 10+ yearsAspects of the shoes he tests:Insoles – can increase perception of comfort, plantar pressures changeImpact testing to compliment human-based footwear testingTraction testing – how do you test? Is it indicative of real world where humans move in variable ways. Slipping vs. StickingDo Pro Athletes need custom shoes Heeluxe’s biggest

S2E1: What can you do to stay resilient and how can shoes improve performance with Jay Dicharry

Sep 12 2024 49 mins

Season 2/Episode 1: What can you do to stay resilient and how can shoes improve performance with Jay Dicharry – Physical Therapist, Oregon State University-Cascades, MOBO, Founder, author of Running RewiredKinematics and Kinetics of Gait: From Lab to Clinic – We can measure things very precisely in the laboratory from the forces in 3 dimensions at 2kHz to the kinematics at 200

7: Individualized science & equipment with Jesse Frank

Oct 25 2023 52 mins

Jesse Frank did his masters & undergrad at CU Boulder with Roger Kram where he did a variety of projects from trying to build a mobile, gravity reducing cart, to studying how various bike seats affect cycling comfort, and was a coauthor on the Nike 4% study. Over the previous 5 years, Jesse worked at Specialized where he had experience in the wind tunnel, studying how different

6: Nutrition, hormonal cycles, optimal biomechanics Keely Henninger & Kate Harrison

Oct 18 2023 57 mins

Keely – Recent winner of Black Canyon 100k, Freetrail Lead of Performance Coaching Team, plan to be a Medical Doctor, former biomechanics researcher and current nutrition researcher. Kate – PhD movement science at VCU, D1 runner and All American at West Virginia, 2nd NCAA 10K. Grew up playing all sorts of sports, always interested in performance. Published 23 articles or a

5: Physiology of Training, racing performance, durability, fatigue, VO2 max, and more with James Spragg

Oct 11 2023 54 mins

Welcome James, Spragg. James is a coach at intercept performance consultancy. James is also finishing his PhD univ of capetown in exercise physiology where he studied the mechanisms responsible for deterioration in performance during grand tour cycling stage races. James also coaches a number of sky runners and ski mountaineers. Our conversation will cover a variety of performance

4: How shoes are made from brief to box & where biomechanics fits

Oct 04 2023 60 mins

Dave Dombrow and Kevin Fallon are co-founders of Speedland and have created some of the most innovative shoes on the market. This company refuses to cut corners and design products with performance first in mind. They also both have a fascinating background working for Nike, Under Armor, and Puma. These guys have both appeared on numerous podcasts and my goal here is to interv