Watts Doc #56: Strength Training Strategies To Avoid Weight Gain

This episode goes into our approach to periodization and training around holidays with and without bike access, injury and illness, extreme heat and cold, including how to adjust mid training block. P...

26 Elo 1h 19min

We discuss our process for learning from a season and applying it to the next one. Goals, roadblocks, recovery, availability, progressive overload, health, and more. We also answer your listener ques...

19 Elo 1h 38min

Today we discuss navigating training and racing when it gets difficult to assess and find confidence in your fitness, including how this is common during and following hard training blocks, mid race s...

11 Elo 1h 2min

​We examine the the ins and outs of training plans and the ways they can help or hurt our short and long term goals. We discuss plans in general and our approach, and tackle items like adaptability an...

21 Heinä 58min

This episode deconstructs a recent study showing unexpectedly low reliability of individual training responses in people undertaking the exact same training program twice. We go down several avenues o...

30 Kesä 1h 14min

We talk about the summer slump that many cyclists experience, where it can originate from, how to think about maintenance to balance event demands with training and more fun, unstructured riding, and ...

9 Kesä 1h 22min

We delve into the recent large scale replication project in sport and exercise studies, their methods and findings. Then we try to understand why it found the results that it did in light of known sta...

20 Touko 1h 35min

We reveal our process for dealing with the uncertainty inherent in training and racing by keeping the FO in the scientific method of FAFO. After addressing whether or not probabilities are even real a...

29 Huhti 1h 48min