Perspectives #5: Coaching the Process, with Cory Lockwood
Kolie and new Empirical Cycling coach Cory sit down for a discussion on previous coaching relationships, cultivating new ones, training and racing experience, and coaching red flags. They also get int...
30 Marras 20211h 18min
Ten Minute Tips #15: Periodizing Strength Training for Cycling Performance
This episode takes a bird's eye view on periodizing strength training in your season including adaptation, hypertrophy, strength, maintenance if needed, and even more specific periodization suggestion...
25 Marras 20211h 17min
200k: The Best And Worst Workouts
Podcast listeners voted on our topic to celebrate 200k listens! In this purely editorial episode, we list our top 5 best and worst workouts, discuss what makes them good or bad, and how one might fix ...
22 Marras 20211h 8min
Watts Doc #34: Why Keto Is Not The Diet You're Looking For
If you've ever thought about using the ketogenic diet for cycling, you may want to listen in. We look at a pair of modern classic studies that compare traditional high carbohydrate diets to periodized...
15 Marras 202153min
Ten Minute Tips #14: Sets and Reps for Strength Training
Wonder how many reps to do in the gym? How many sets? This episode will help. We discuss typical set and rep ranges, how good they are for strength, hypertrophy, or maintenance, as well as in the cont...
10 Marras 202155min
Ten Minute Tips #13: What Strength Exercises Should You Do?
This discussion focuses on cyclists choosing exercises for strength training, and the hosts mostly stay on track. Topics included are high and low bar back squats vs front squat, lifting shoes, injury...
3 Marras 20211h 3min
Ten Minute Tips #12: Getting Into Strength Training
Kolie and Kyle let their quads out in this wide ranging discussion of pointers for cyclists going into the gym for strength training. Topics touched on are gym basics, the importance of technique, wei...
26 Loka 20211h 15min
Perspectives #4: High Functioning Lunatics, with Patrick Smith
Patrick Smith joins Kolie for a conversation about how to not accidentally rickroll yourself. Included are the usefulness of rigid rules in training and racing, goals vs. values, dealing with disappoi...
19 Loka 20211h 46min
