ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Train2Perform is a podcast about training smarter, recovering better, and performing at your best. Hosted by Julian Sisman, strength coach, PhD candidate, and owner of Prepare for Performance in Rockville, MD. You'll get two kinds of episodes: long-form interviews with coaches and experts, and shorter solo talks where I break down the training topics people most often get wrong. We cover strength training, sports performance, recovery, nutrition, women's health, and training over 40, all grounded in real science and real coaching experience.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 16 days
Average audio length:
43 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
40 episodes
since Feb. 19, 2020
episodic
explicit content
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Should You Lift Heavy After 50?
A lot of adults are told that getting older means lifting lighter weights, doing more reps, and staying away from anything that feels too heavy.
But recent research tells a different story.
A 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis looked at 18 randomized controlled…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Six training myths. Under twelve minutes. No fear-mongering, no gym-bro folklore, just what the research actually says about training your kid, or yourself, smarter.
In this rapid-fire episode, Coach Julian goes through six of the most common training myths parents, athletes, and adult lifters hear…
Your athlete trains hard, shows up, pushes through every session.
Then out of nowhere, the progress stops. In this episode, Coach Julian breaks down the four recovery habits that separate athletes who keep improving year after year from athletes who plateau and stay there, and none of them involve…
Most people over 40 protect their joints by backing off the weights. The research says that's backwards, and that untrained muscle is what actually wrecks a joint.
Coach Julian breaks down what happens to your muscle after 40, why resistance training keeps showing up in the literature as a treatme…
Is my kid too young to lift weights?" It's the question every parent asks — and the quick answer is no, that fear isn't backed by the research.
But the real story isn't about safety, it's about what your athlete could be building right now: strength, explosiveness, faster sport-specific skill…
Strength training's real value isn't the scoreboard, it's the injury that never happens and the health outcome that never gets worse. This episode breaks down five studies covering injury prevention, cancer mortality, depression, and the truth about running volume and winning. Built for parents and…
Every parent in the stands can spot the "gifted" 13-year-old. He's bigger, faster, stronger than everyone. Here's what the research actually says: that kid is usually NOT the one who makes it.
In this episode we dig into the science of biological maturation in young athletes and why the y…
The supplement aisle is full of promises and most of them are garbage. In this episode we cut through the noise and break down the 5 supplements that actually hold up under research: creatine, whey protein, vitamin D, omega-3, and magnesium glycinate.
For each one we cover why it's worth taking, wh…
In this episode, we break down a study that followed older adults around retirement age and found that one year of heavy resistance training helped preserve leg strength years later.
We talk about why this matters for adults in their 60s and 70s, why light exercise may not be enough, and how streng…
Women are often told to be careful with aging bones. Go light. Don't lift heavy. In this episode, I break down why that advice is backward, and what the research says to do instead.
After menopause, bone and muscle break down at the same time, driven by the same drop in estrogen, and almost no one …
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