Strength First Athlete
Abel OrozcoStrength First Athlete is for the hybrid athlete, the person who wants to get stronger and go farther and refuses to believe they have to sacrifice one for the other.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 56 | Founded | 8 months ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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What “Healthy” Actually Means When You Train
Before we start, this is a collab.
Valentina has a PhD in food science. She spends her working life on quality and safety, auditing how food gets made long before it reaches anyone’s kitchen. Her expertise extends to qualifying functional...
Your maintenance number is not ONE number
Your muscle maintenance volume isn't one number. Age, endurance load, and recovery decide your real sets-per-week dose. Here's the research behind the shift
Two weeks ago I gave you an easy range, not simple though, I said sets need to be...
NO, Your strength and your cardio aren't fighting each other!
Why don’t we look at this question again from another perspective…because it’s the one everybody keeps asking everywhere, especially since something like Hyrox is becoming so popular as well nowadays. We know every endurance athlete who sta...
Why strength work always loses
Is willpower a limited resource that runs out during the day?
Probably not. The idea comes from a 1998 study where people told to eat only radishes (not cookies) gave up faster on a puzzle afterward — the “ego depletion” effect. But a 2...
The Maintenance Floor: How to Keep your Strength through race season
Maintain strength through race season on the minimum dose: how few hard sets actually hold what you built, and why load matters more than volume.
Late May, 2025, nine weeks out from Ironman Ottawa. I was standing in the gym on a Monday eve...
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I coach hybrid athletes who lift and race, without one wrecking the other. Evidence-based PT, Ironman finisher, husband & dad of two. I help hybrid athletes race their next Endurance event without losing the strength they built in the gym.
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