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The MicroCastAuthor: Microcosm Coaching
The Microcosm Coaching Podcast helps endurance athleteswhether you're a road runner, trail runner, or training for your first marathon or 100-milerget more out of their training with evidence-based advice, effort-based coaching, and expert mindset support. Hosted by professional coaches and athletes, each episode explores practical strategies for race prep, running recovery, mental performance, and sustainable training. If you want to build fitness, avoid burnout, and find more joy in running, you're in the right place. Language: en Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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The Performance Trap: What Elite Male Athletes Get Wrong About Discipline, Leanness, and Control
Tuesday, 17 March, 2026
If you've ever thought "I'm not dieting, I'm optimizing", this episode is for you.We're dropping this one from the Your Diet Sucks vault because we think it belongs in the feed of every endurance athlete. We brought in coach TJ David, former professional skier and elite endurance athlete, and Sean Van Horn, elite athlete, Kylee Van Horn's husband, and someone who spent six years not telling a single person he was struggling, because the way it shows up in men doesn't look like what we're trained to recognize.It looks like discipline. It looks like being serious about your sport. It looks like The Rock's morning routine and Chris Froome dropping weight before the Tour. From the outside, and often from the inside, it looks like exactly what you're supposed to be doing.That's the trap.We get into the data (it's stark,and most of it is probably still an undercount), the cultural pipeline from GI Joe to fitness influencers to the manosphere, why the diagnostic tools were literally designed for someone who is not you, and what coaches and training partners can actually do when they see it in someone they care about. Sean also shares his own story, which takes guts, and is worth your full attention.You don't have to identify with any particular label to get something out of this one. If you train hard, care about performance, and have ever used food or exercise as a way to feel in control of something, this conversation was made for you.
