The Real Science of Sport Podcast

Should Doping Coaches Be Banned For Life? / Heat and Heart Rate / Tokyo Rivalries In Focus

Zone 2: The Debate Continues / World Records Old and New

Why Everything You Know About Zone 2 Training is Probably Wrong

Cutting Weight to Win: PFP's Performance Strategy. Or Slippery Slope?

Inside The World of Women's Professional Cycling

Fitness, Fatigue and a Tour Without Fire (But Hope From the Women's TDF)

What Your Strava Fitness Score Really Means

Trust Issues: Doping, the Media, and the Athlete’s Dilemma

Hormones, Hype & High Performance: The Menstrual Cycle in Sport

🚨 SOS: It WAS Too Good To Be True: Marathon World Record Holder Chepng'etich Provisionally Suspended

Staying Cool at the Tour - Gimmick or Gain? | Busting the Hype About Salty Sweat

The Science of Cramp

Vingegaard's Muscle: No Match for Pogacar? | Who is to Blame for Tour Crash Chaos?

What It's Really Like to be a Tennis Professional on Tour

Spotlight: Failing to Science the Sh*t Out of Running / A Legal Lens on Liability and Sports Injury

The Science of Fuelling: Inside the Carbohydrate Performance Paradigm

Spotlight: Cramping Truths and Myths / Unscientific Trans Non-Advantage Claims / Sports Science's Trust Erosion

Most Sports Science Research is False: The Replication Crisis Hits Sport

Spotlight: When Talent 'Stalls' / The Carbs vs Fat Shifting Paradigm / The Fragile Future of Track

Sport and Skin Cancer: How Big is the Risk?

Spotlight: Carbs vs Fat in Comrades Champions? / Sinner’s Loss is Tennis' gain?

The Science of Recovery

Perfect Bluff: How Yates won the Giro / Boxing’s New Sex Screening / How Science Revealed a Ultra Cheat

Spotlight: Breaking the Physiological Bank in Training, and Rethinking Rugby’s Red Card

Ultra Endurance: The Science behind Conquering the 400km Cocodona Trail Run

Spotlight: Peril, Pills, Promises & Potential: Sport's Performance and Ethical Battlegrounds

Spotlight: High Carbs, High Speeds, High Times…and a Drip Too Far

Spotlight: Talent, Trust and Testing Transparency

MARATHON SPECIAL: London & Boston Round-Up / Pacesetters or Not? / We Test What is Claimed to be the World's Fastest Shoe

Spotlight: The Birds & the Bees of Sports Science Research Papers. How Research is Conceived & Delivered

Spotlight: The UK Supreme Court and Implications for Women's Sport / A Tour of World Records, Paris Roubaix and Discourse Achievers

Spotlight: Fatigue as a Risk, a Requirement and a Red Herring / Grand Slam Track Reactions / New Olympic Sports

Heat, Hydration and 'Bum Clinics': The Science of Event Medicine

Spotlight: Matters of the Heart / Heart Health in Marathon Runners / Max HR / Concussion and Coaches

Spotlight: A New IOC President / A New Tool To Protect Women's Sport / A New Power Metric

Spotlight: Teen Sprint Phenoms Accelerate / Talent Difference Makers / Community Rugby Concussion Insights

Spotlight: Physiological "Frugality", Power and Speed / Discourse Fuelling Success / Trans Sport Update

Spotlight: The Science of Improving Human Performances / Technological Advances in Sport / Talent Scouting Through Zwift

Spotlight: A Women's Sub 4-minute Mile? / A Tale of Textbook Heat Adaptation

Rethinking Polarised Training with Dr Stephen Seiler

Spotlight: World Records Galore as Running's Recalibration Resumes / A Final Jannik Sinner Discourse

Can You Trust Your Sports Watch?

Spotlight: Janik Sinner Banned For Three Months

Spotlight: Protecting Women's Sport - Update on New Developments and Policies From Around the World

The Science of Mind Coaching in Sport

Spotlight: News Roundup / Forgiveness for Dopers? / Carbon Monoxide Banned / Yellow Cards For Head Injuries Only

CRICKET SPECIAL: Is The Futue of Test Cricket Under Threat? / The Dying Skill of Fast Bowling / Coaching The Best From School To Elite

Spotlight: You Are Not Simon Yates. But You Can Learn From Him

The Role of the Modern Physio: Lessons from the Royal Marines

Spotlight: Can We Trust Experts in Fitness and Health?