Human Endurance

Bruna and Fabi
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Redefining human boundaries through endurance sports. Tune into the expert series to learn directly from experts on topics related to endurance sports. Listen to the guest series to be inspired by the journeys of incredible, everyday endurance athletes. -- Fabi & Bruna are the founders of augo: www.augotraining.com or @augo.training Fabi & Bruna coach runners and triathletes of all levels: www.jornadaendurance.com Follow Bruna & Fabi on Instagram: @justbrunathings @endurance_fabi

  1. 1d ago

    Zone 2, Strength & Training by Feel | Dr. Thomas Mortelmans Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences and Founder of ESQ Coaching

    Your zone 2 at the start of a ride is not your zone 2 at the end. Zones are a model. Feel is the skill. In this Expert Series episode, we talk with Dr. Thomas Mortelmans, a scientist who coaches. Thomas holds a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Basel and works as a Sr. Scientist at Johnson & Johnson. He coaches cyclists, triathletes, and runners through ESQ Coaching, writes the weekly newsletter The Scientist's Notebook, and is building Gradescale, a training analytics platform based on peer-reviewed models. We cover: - Why consistency and progressive overload matter more than zone obsession - Planning training around your life, not the other way around - Deload weeks and why some athletes recover faster than others - Heart rate drift, RPE, and "feel yourself" sessions with the data hidden - Strength training for endurance athletes, from base phase to race season - The "10 g of sugar is enough" myth, and when zone 2 isn't the best use of limited time - What a human coach gives you that AI can't For coaches: a simple way to adjust load, recovery, and strength work for each athlete. For athletes: a reason to stop chasing perfect numbers and start trusting how training feels. Find Thomas on Instagram at @esq.coaching and at gradescale.fit. Human Endurance is hosted by Bruna (@justbrunathings) and Fabi (@ifabimaia), coaches at Jornada Endurance and founders of augo (@augo.training).

    Zone 2, Strength & Training by Feel | Dr. Thomas Mortelmans Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences and Founder of ESQ Coaching

  2. Sep 8

    VO₂max, HRV, Lab Testing: What Actually Changes Your Training | Marco Altini, Running Coach, Scientist, Founder of HRV4Training, Advisor at Oura and augo

    A high VO₂max can be a sign that you are inefficient, not that you are fit. That is one of several ideas Marco Altini takes apart in this episode. Marco is co-founder of HRV4Training, an endurance coach, an advisor at Oura, and a guest lecturer at VU Amsterdam. He holds a PhD in data science and master's degrees in computer science engineering and human movement sciences. He is also Bruna's coach and an advisor to augo. We start with why he prescribes almost everything by perceived effort and almost never gives a pace or a heart rate. He explains how he brings along athletes who cannot yet read their own effort, and what he actually looks at when he analyses training data, which turns out to be far less often than most people assume. Then we get into the lab. Marco tests for running economy and substrate oxidation at race intensity, and explains why VO₂max is one of the least actionable numbers in endurance sport, using his own results as the example. We also cover what changes between a road marathon and a trail marathon, whether you can train for trails without trails, why fueling past ten hours becomes a calorie problem rather than a carbohydrate problem, and where AI genuinely helps a coach. That last part gets specific. Marco describes using augo to pull up a fueling conversation from months earlier instead of scrolling through workout comments and WhatsApp, and explains why he sees the tool as removing administrative friction rather than replacing coaching judgement. About augo augo is an intelligent platform for endurance sports coaching. It combines coach and athlete communication, workout data from Garmin, Strava, Coros, Wahoo, Polar and Zwift, and post-session athlete feedback in a single platform, so coaches can ask a question and get an answer with full athlete context. augo surfaces which athletes need attention today, tracks wellbeing trends over time, and remembers every note, conversation and session feedback. augo is built to support coaches, not replace them. Learn more at: www.augotraining.comMore from Marco: marcoaltini.substack.com

    VO₂max, HRV, Lab Testing: What Actually Changes Your Training | Marco Altini, Running Coach, Scientist, Founder of HRV4Training, Advisor at Oura and augo

  3. Aug 29

    Why your trail race never goes to plan | Ido Dassa, Former pro trail runner, Israeli 100km Champion and National Record Holder, Co-founder & CEO RacePace

    Two runners can look at the same race stats, the same distance, the same elevation gain, and finish hours apart. Ido Dassa has spent a decade learning why. In this Expert Series episode we talk with Ido, a pro ultra-trail runner and CEO of RacePace. He is the Israeli 100 km champion and national record holder, a member of the national trail team, and a The North Face athlete. He has raced backyard ultras, 200K on the road, vertical Ks and technical mountain 100Ks. He also started running at 18, as a smoker who had never played a sport. We cover what separates trail running from road running, and why importing road pacing into the mountains is how most first trail races fall apart. Ido explains what to look for in a course profile before race day, how he decides when to walk and when to run uphill, the three common hand positions on climbs and what each one actually does, and why technical descents deserve more caution than most runners give them. We also get into fueling. Ido pushes back on the carbohydrate numbers circulating online, explains why gut training deserves sessions of its own, and describes the 100K where cold, altitude and wet hands stacked up until he pulled out at halfway. For coaches, his closing point is short: learn the demands of the race first, then build the plan around them. 🔗 IDO & RacePace ⁠https://www.instagram.com/ido_dassa/⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/find_racepace/⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.findracepace.com 👋 HOSTS Human Endurance is hosted by Bruna and Fabi, coaches, athletes, and co-founders of augo. Bruna: ⁠https://instagram.com/justbrunathings⁠Fabi: ⁠https://instagram.com/endurance_fabi⁠ To support this podcast, head over to augo and create an account:⁠ ⁠ ⁠https://www.augotraining.com⁠⁠https://instagram.com/augo.training⁠

    Why your trail race never goes to plan | Ido Dassa, Former pro trail runner, Israeli 100km Champion and National Record Holder, Co-founder & CEO RacePace

  4. Aug 13

    Sports chiropractor and lifelong athlete on injury, recovery and building a body you can trust | Martin Kumm, Sports Chiropractor, WorldTour Cycling team EF Education-EasyPost, Expert Series 20

    Pain shows up late. By the time you feel it, the process has usually been running for months. In this Expert Series episode we sit down with Martin Kumm, a sports chiropractor who has spent the past five years with WorldTour cycling team EF Education-EasyPost, alongside years working in ice hockey and track and field. He is a lifelong athlete himself, from national level basketball to triathlon to cycling. We go through the questions athletes ask us over and over. Does a warm up actually prevent injury, and how long should it be? Should you stretch, or are you someone who should not? Is a cool down worth the time? How much strength training do you really need, and what happens to it during a three week race? Are magnesium and creatine worth the money? And now that the research has shifted, is the cold plunge still doing anything for you? Martin also explains why he can tell whether a professional cyclist played other sports as a child just by asking them to stand on one foot, and why plantar fasciitis you feel in your heel often starts in your toes. If you coach, his closing answer may change how you plan your season. Stop trying to prevent injuries and start building a robust athlete. 🔗 MARTIN https://www.instagram.com/martinkumm_cycling/https://cycling.clinic/ride-ready/ 👋 HOSTS Human Endurance is hosted by Bruna and Fabi, coaches, athletes, and co-founders of augo. Bruna: https://instagram.com/justbrunathingsFabi: https://instagram.com/endurance_fabi To support this podcast, head over to augo and create an account: https://www.augotraining.comhttps://instagram.com/augo.training

    Sports chiropractor and lifelong athlete on injury, recovery and building a body you can trust | Martin Kumm, Sports Chiropractor, WorldTour Cycling team EF Education-EasyPost, Expert Series 20

  5. Jul 28

    How to coach beyond data | Bevan McKinnon, Triathlon Coach, Kona age-group World Champion, IRONMAN 70.3 age-group World Champion, ITU Long Course World Champion, Co-host of Fitter Radio

    Bevan McKinnon has coached triathletes for over 20 years, hosts one of the sport's longest-running podcasts, and won his age group at Kona in 2016. We talk with him about what changed in his coaching when he stopped starting with the workout. Bevan makes the case that the objective data most of us build our training around tells us very little on its own. A flat CTL can hide an athlete who is genuinely getting fitter. A completed session guarantees nothing. "The brain is auditing the body at every single second in time," he says, and his argument is that we have largely stopped listening to it. He shares how he opens the conversations most coaches avoid, why he asked a physiologist to write an Ironman race plan with no numbers in it, what heat preparation actually costs an athlete, and his one-word answer to the question of what age groupers can learn from professionals. We also get into fuelling, recovery capacity, and why he now describes himself as a health coach rather than a triathlon coach. -- Bevan is the founder of Fitter Coaching and hosts Fitter Radio: https://www.fitter.co.nz/bevanmckinnon Follow him on Instagram: @fitter.co.nz Follow Fabi on Instagram: ⁠@endurance_fabi Follow Bruna on Instagram: @justbrunathings Follow augo on Instagram: ⁠@augo.training Learn more about augo: www.augotraining.com

    How to coach beyond data | Bevan McKinnon, Triathlon Coach, Kona age-group World Champion, IRONMAN 70.3 age-group World Champion, ITU Long Course World Champion, Co-host of Fitter Radio

  6. Jun 29

    She trained with ChatGPT and ran a 2h43 Marathon Debut | Ronja Hofsetter, 2h38 marathoner, 1st place SwissCityMarathon Lucerne, U23 Swiss Marathon Record

    In this Guest Series episode, we sit down with Ronja, a 23-year-old from the canton of Lucerne who came back to Switzerland in 2024 after a football scholarship in the US and started running almost by accident, mostly to clear her head. Within a year she had won her debut marathon (SwissCityMarathon Lucerne, 2:43:38) off a longest training run of just 26K, and later run 2:38:48 for second at the Zürich Marathon, a U23 Swiss record. We get into: How she actually used ChatGPT to build and adjust her training, and where AI coaching started to get riskyHer move from self-coaching to a human coach, and then toward more science-based, data-driven trainingWhy race fueling is the biggest piece of untapped potential in her runningThe mental side: kinesiology, racing through pain, and running with a smile as a performance toolHer road toward the World University Games and an Olympic goal for 2028 or 2032It's a story about starting late, progressing fast, and the reminder that consistency, rest, and joy matter more than any single heroic session. Whether you coach or race yourself, there's plenty here on the promise and the limits of training with AI. ------ Follow Ronja: @ronja_hofstetter Follow Bruna: ⁠@justbrunathings Follow Fabi: ⁠@endurance_fabi To support this podcast, check out augo. Use code HUMANENDURACE to get 1 month for free.

    She trained with ChatGPT and ran a 2h43 Marathon Debut | Ronja Hofsetter, 2h38 marathoner, 1st place SwissCityMarathon Lucerne, U23 Swiss Marathon Record

  7. Jun 15

    How Taping her Watch Unlocked a 2h34 marathon | Amanda Martin, 1st place at the 2026 Eugene Marathon

    What changes when you stop chasing the number and start running on feel? Amanda Martin spent eight years chasing the US Olympic Trials marathon standard. This spring she taped over her watch at the Eugene Marathon, ran the entire race blind to her pace, and crossed the line in 2h34, an eight-minute personal best and comfortably under the qualifying time. Amanda is a marathoner and a neuro rehab physical therapist in Salt Lake City, and a former Emory teammate of Bruna. She walks us through the breakthrough and what actually made it possible: cutting her weekly mileage, protecting one big quality session a week, running her easy days genuinely easy, and rebuilding her relationship with fueling after years of under-eating and RED-S. We get into the mental side too, from positive self-talk to her rule for knowing a goal is worth holding onto: "If you can't go a day without thinking about it, it's probably something you can achieve." If you're working toward something big around a full and demanding life, Amanda's story is full of honest, practical takeaways on training, fueling, blood work, and making the sport work with your life instead of against it. Follow us AmandaBrunaFabiAbout the hosts Bruna & Fabi are the co-founders of augo, a next generation coaching software bringing AI to empower endurance coaches, not replace. They also coach runners and triathletes of all levels at Jornada Endurance.

    How Taping her Watch Unlocked a 2h34 marathon | Amanda Martin, 1st place at the 2026 Eugene Marathon

  8. May 25

    Everything You Need to Know Before Your First Trail Ultra | Ash Daniels, Trail & Ultra Running Coach | Expert Series 18

    What does it actually take to line up at your first trail ultra and not just survive it, but do it right? In this Expert Series episode, we sit down with Ash Daniels, Level 3 Athletics Australia accredited coach, AUTRA endorsed coach, and Australian national 100km team manager, to get into everything road runners need to know before making the jump to trails. Ash starts where most coaches don't: with his own disastrous first attempt at Ultra-Trail Australia, carrying enough kit to survive the weekend and arriving at a checkpoint six hours late. From that experience came a 5-hour PB the following year, a decade-long coaching career, and a very clear philosophy on what actually matters in trail and ultra preparation. In this episode we cover training specificity for trail (and why your marathon prep won't save you), the vert-per-10K metric Ash uses with all his athletes, why he ditched heart rate zones in favor of running power and RPE, what social media consistently gets wrong about electrolytes and high-carb fueling, and a nuanced, honest conversation about where AI fits (and doesn't fit) in coaching. Whether you're eyeing your first 50K or just trail-curious, this one is packed with practical, no-nonsense insight. -- Find Ash at journey2ultra.com.au or on Instagram @journey2ultracoaching Follow Bruna: @justbrunathings Follow Fabi: @endurance_fabi Learn more about the podcast: www.humanendurancepodcast.com

    Everything You Need to Know Before Your First Trail Ultra | Ash Daniels, Trail & Ultra Running Coach | Expert Series 18
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Redefining human boundaries through endurance sports. Tune into the expert series to learn directly from experts on topics related to endurance sports. Listen to the guest series to be inspired by the journeys of incredible, everyday endurance athletes. -- Fabi & Bruna are the founders of augo: www.augotraining.com or @augo.training Fabi & Bruna coach runners and triathletes of all levels: www.jornadaendurance.com Follow Bruna & Fabi on Instagram: @justbrunathings @endurance_fabi

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  • Creator
    Bruna and Fabi
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    46
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Bruna and Fabi
  • Show Website
    Human Endurance

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