How to Build the Perfect Athlete - Helen Glover, Hugh Dennis, Steve Haake and Emma Ross

如何打造完美运动员 —— 赫伦·格洛弗、休·丹尼斯、史蒂夫·海克和艾玛·罗斯

The Infinite Monkey Cage

2025-07-24

43 分钟
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To access this episode early and ad-free, subscribe to BBC Podcast Premium on Apple Podcasts. The episode will be available for free with adverts on 24th July. Brian Cox and Robin Ince are limbering up for a high-performance episode all about what it takes to build the perfect athlete. Joining them on the track are physiologist Dr Emma Ross, sports engineer Professor Steve Haake, Olympic rowing legend Helen Glover, and comedian Hugh Dennis - who’s getting into gear and reliving his cycling adventures in the Pyrenees. From muscle power and mental grit to high-tech training tools, the team dives into the science of champions. Can we engineer the ultimate competitor? And how do you get back to peak performance after becoming a parent? Helen Glover shares her inspiring story, while Hugh Dennis wonders if he’s still got what it takes to get to the top. Producer: Olivia Jani Series Producer: Melanie Brown Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem BBC Studios Audio Production
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  • First on BBC Sounds.

  • Hello, I'm Brian Cox.

  • And I'm Robin Ince.

  • And this is the Infinite Monkey Gymnasium.

  • Today we guarantee that in just 10 days, you too can have a body... like Robinin's.

  • Yes!

  • It'll take a lot longer to have one like Brian's but with mine you could probably do it in five days actually with the correct amount of cakes.

  • We have trained together though.

  • This is true.

  • When we went on tour we trained and Brian thought that I would die

  • because Brian does lots of training and I don't.

  • This is because it would make the profit for me bigger.

  • had he died?

  • I didn't realize how much he'd insured my life for and I should have really checked on that.

  • But yeah, so what happened was we went up onto the moors, so it was a very kind of Heathcliff thing,