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Thibo David is a personal trainer and coach based in London, who works with global stars in sport, business, and touring musicians. Most famously, he has been working with pop star Harry Styles, who surprised both the running (and non-running!) world a few weeks ago in the Berlin Marathon, posting a hugely impressive sub-3 marathon in only his second attempt at the distance.
While Harry's efforts have rightly garnered the plaudits - he did the work himself after all - there has been less coverage in the press about the man behind creating the sufficient training, fitness, and resilience to allow Styles to smash his personal best by 25 minutes, on a stifling and unseasonably hard day. To find out more about the specific training, protocols, and workouts of his success, go to https://substack.com/home/post/p-174321236 but if you want to find out about the man and methods behind the success and learn how to run like Harry - then this is a completely different way of seeing the World, run training, and how to think about yourself as an athlete and performer. Thibo's approach using 'The Pouvoir method' is based on his time in the Green Berets in the French army, which might surprise you. As a sport scientist, it makes perfect sense, but this is very different from what you might expect!
His ethos is: "We assist ambitious Humans in recalibrating their bodies and minds so they can lead with clarity and precision under pressure."
We hope that your pre-conceptions are challenged and that you enjoy the show.
To find out more about Thibo, follow him on instagram at:
https://www.instagram.com/thibo_david
or go to his website to go in more detail and sign up to work with him:
A one off special collaboration between ‘The Slice of Pie’ Psychology podcast and The Focused Mind. Host of SOP, Pete Jackson, interviews Endurance Mind Coaching founder, Stu Holliday, about his unique Endurance Mind management programme for runners, cyclists, and triathletes, called ‘The Unbreakable Athlete.’
Pete delves into to ask:
What is the programme?
Who is it for?
What psychological problems does it solve for endurance athletes?
How long does it take?
Why did you develop it?
What are the results like?
And, how does it benefit people who take the course and implement the training?
As a specialist in Sport Psychology for endurance athletes, Stuart has worked in the field for over 12 years and the modular course that athletes complete at the same time they are doing their training for endurance races, he knows what techniques from mainstream and sport psychology best help athletes ‘get out of their own way’ and maximise their potential to deliver their best results under pressure, with true confidence and consistency.
In the episode, Pete uses his psychological training and socratic questioning to find out the methodology behind Stuart’s approach to test it’s validity against research findings and best practice for elite sport with a programme that can benefit all.
If you are chasing targets for marathons, triathlons, sportives, or criteriums, this is an episode not to miss.
You can find out more about Stuart and about the Unbreakable Athlete programme at https://endurancemindcoaching.com or on instagram @endurancemindcoaching
You can listen back to Stuart’s first appearance on Slice of Pie at:
Professor Andy Lane’s article in the New York times, can be read here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/well/mind/sport-psychology-performance-tips.html
The R.E.S.I.S.T project can be found at:
https://resiststopping.wixsite.com/resist
More about Pete, his work as a Psychologist, and of course a link to his podcast, can be found at: https://www.petejackson.co.uk/
This was my previous episode with him:
Episode 32: https://www.sliceofpiepodcast.com/987202/episodes/16876016-32-the-psychology-of-endurance-stuart-holliday