Ten Minute Tips #34: Intermediate and Advanced Strength Training Mistakes (and Solutions)
If you're a cyclist who's intermediate or advanced in strength training, listen in. In our last strength training mistakes episode, we considered more general topics like nutrition, recovery, and peri...
29 Tammi 20241h 56min
Ten Minute Tips #33: Track Training Considerations
By popular demand, we bring you the track episode! We first consider race durations and when you would need aerobic training (it's shorter than you may think), gearing and cadence, technique practice,...
21 Tammi 20242h 8min
Ten Minute Tips #32: Where Training Zones Fall Short
To kick off 2024, Kolie and Rory discuss how and why training zones fall short, and how they can actually impair progress if taken to logical extremes. We build the conversation back up by thinking ab...
9 Tammi 20241h 49min
Perspectives #31: Race Specific Intensity and Tapering, with Alex Carmona
After you've built up your aerobic engine, what does it mean to get ready to race? Empirical Cycling coach Alex Carmona brings his wealth of coaching and racing experience when discussing transitionin...
12 Joulu 20232h 4min
Watts Doc #47: The Redox Role In Adaptation, Recovery, and Nutrition
After some background information on what redox state means for exercise and your mitochondria, we look at some experiments linking various intensities of exercise to adaptations. Then we look at wher...
4 Joulu 20232h 14min
Ten Minute Tips #31: How To Take A Rest Day (And How To Avoid Screwing It Up)
This episode looks at all the ways people tend to mess up their rest and recovery days so they're not nearly as restorative as they could be, including such things as riding too hard, lifting weights,...
26 Marras 20232h
Perspectives #30: Being Faster Than Your Watts, with Giancarlo Bianchi
In this episode, 20+ year bike racing veteran Giancarlo Bianchi discusses the tactics of bike racing, and the process of honing racecraft and why people thought his FTP was significantly higher than i...
7 Marras 20232h 8min
Ten Minute Tips #30: Strength Training Mistakes Every Cyclist Makes
Kyle makes it back from the desert in time to discuss common mistakes cyclists tend to make when they incorporate strength training. We discuss things like tracking load and fatigue, impact on the bik...
22 Loka 20232h
