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Welcome to the Coach Stephanie Holbrook Podcast
The Coach Stephanie Holbrook Podcast is where real-world experience meets practical coaching wisdom—for athletes, active adults, and anyone who wants to keep moving well for life. With over 18 years of coaching experience, Coach Stephanie has worked with endurance athletes, senior athletes, and everyday movers, many over 40 and beyond. Her oldest senior fitness client was 103—living proof that movement truly is medicine.
Each episode blends smart training principles, longevity-focused fitness, and honest conversations with coaches, experts, and athletes who’ve been in the trenches. You’ll hear approachable guidance on staying strong, injury-resilient, and motivated through every season of life—without hype, extremes, or burnout.
Whether you’re training for your next race, rebuilding after setbacks, or simply committed to aging strong, this podcast is here to remind you: if you keep moving, you can keep on moving.
Welcome to the Coach Stephanie Holbrook Podcast
The Coach Stephanie Holbrook Podcast is where real-world experience meets practical coaching wisdom—for athletes, active adults, and anyone who wants to keep moving well for life. With over 18 years of coaching experience, Coach Stephanie has worked with endurance athletes, senior athletes, and everyday movers, many over 40 and beyond. Her oldest senior fitness client was 103—living proof that movement truly is medicine.
Each episode blends smart training principles, longevity-focused fitness, and honest conversations with coaches, experts, and athletes who’ve been in the trenches. You’ll hear approachable guidance on staying strong, injury-resilient, and motivated through every season of life—without hype, extremes, or burnout.
Whether you’re training for your next race, rebuilding after setbacks, or simply committed to aging strong, this podcast is here to remind you: if you keep moving, you can keep on moving.
Episodes
Episodes



Wednesday May 17, 2017
Podcast 51: Sex and Survival: How Endurance Athletes Can Optimize Both
Wednesday May 17, 2017
Wednesday May 17, 2017
Coach Stephanie and Peter Defty from Vespa Power discuss the history of current nutrtion advice. The advice is misleading and can be detrimental to athletes health. Having self awareness and a health libido is a good indicator that the body is running properly. Coach Stephanie belives that first a foremost, health should be the primary goal of an athlete and and secondary goal should be optimized performace. With proper nutrtion and training, and athlete can have both.



Thursday Apr 20, 2017
Podcast 50: How To Optimize Performance on Low Carbohydrate Endurance Training
Thursday Apr 20, 2017
Thursday Apr 20, 2017
Peter Defty gives us an update on how to tinker with your diet to get the most of low carbohydrate performance.



Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
Podcast 49: Paving the Way for Transgender Athletes, Anna Lisk Discusses Racing
Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
Wednesday Apr 19, 2017
Anna Lisk discusses her experiences as a transgender cyclist. She talks about how cycling and racing has helped her cope with the stress of her changes.



Monday Feb 13, 2017
Podcast 48: Increase Performance by Aligning Priorities with Melaney Sreenan
Monday Feb 13, 2017
Monday Feb 13, 2017
Dr. Melaney Sreenan discusses setting priorities and goals to gettting what you really want in performance, relationships, and life.
Join me for the KetoEndruance FREE Webinar on February 21st, at 3:00 pm EST.



Thursday Jan 19, 2017
Podcast 46: Coach Andre Obradovic's Inspiring Story from Fat to Fit to Ambasador
Thursday Jan 19, 2017
Thursday Jan 19, 2017
Coach Stephanie discusses the life changing events that motivated Coach Andre Obradovic to change his diet and lifestyle. The changes motivated Andre so much that he became a speaker, coach and ambassador for the prestigous Noakes Foundation.
Andre has gone on to be one of Australia’s leading mindset, health and well-being coaches, it is my mission to inspire people to optimise every aspect of their life, whether that means taking control, working through personal challenges, climbing the corporate ladder, improving sporting performance, or simply living a healthier and happier lifestyle.



Monday Aug 01, 2016
Episode 45: Scary Science with Carb Loading Advice
Monday Aug 01, 2016
Monday Aug 01, 2016
Coach Stephanie chats with Paul Laursen discuss the information presented at the Endurance Coaching Summit. Paul and Stephanie discuss concerns over some of the speaker's recommendations of a high carbohydrate diet for athletes.
Paul has a pretty impressive bio. Paul Laursen leads the Performance Physiology Team at High Performance Sport New Zealand. His role here is to oversee physiological support for the national sporting organisations of New Zealand. He supervises a number of AUT postgraduate students directly involved with these organisations, and the projects aim to provide research findings that have the potential to improve sport performance for our Olympic hopefuls.
He has published over 100 refereed manuscripts in moderate-to-high impact exercise and sports science journals, and this work has been cited more than 3000 times.
Here are the key references talked about in the show:
http://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/1/1/e000047.full
https://sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40798-016-0048-x
The picture we referred to from the conference can be seen here:
https://twitter.com/_Zen_Turtle_/status/756605239864750080
If you want to train smart and race fast? Work with Stephanie. One-on-one and group coaching.



Saturday Dec 12, 2015
Podcast 44: Holiday Down Time, Bringing the Body Back to Balance
Saturday Dec 12, 2015
Saturday Dec 12, 2015
Coach Frank Sole and Coach Stephanie Holbrook discuss what to focus on during the holiday season. This a perfect time on the off season to correct muscle imbalances, posture problems and set the foundation for training and racing with a balanced body.
This is also the time to rest the mind and discuss mental attitude during the off season.
Resources:
Supple Leopard by Kelly Starrett
Gray Cook
Paul Chek and the C.H.E.K. Institute
If you want to train smart and race fast? Work with Stephanie. One-on-one and group coaching.



Tuesday Mar 31, 2015
Tuesday Mar 31, 2015
It is an exciting day for Coach Stephanie when she can interview someone as cool and as accomplished as Zach Bitter. Zach is an ultra marathon runner who broke the American Record for running 100 miles and the world record for the 12 hour distance. Zach discusses the OFM Program, what is diet looks like and how he adjusts his nutrition to match his training.
FASTER Study with Jeff Volek
GAPs Diet
Weston A Price Foundation
Beyond Good and Evil Article about organ meats
If you want to train smart and race fast? Work with Stephanie. One-on-one and group coaching.







