Watts Doc #45: How High Intensity Aerobic Adaptations With AMPK Do (And Don't) Work
This episode takes a long look at the mechanisms behind aerobic adaptations from high intensity exercise, starting with an early study showing how AMPK activation leads directly to mitochondrial bioge...
4 Sep 20232h 21min
Perspectives #27: Common Reasons For Fitness Plateaus and Their Fixes, with Rory Porteous
Empirical Cycling coaches Kolie and Rory sit down for an in-depth discussion of the 5 most common reasons that they see for a fitness plateaus. Touched on are reasonable expectations for fitness progr...
15 Aug 20232h 8min
Perspectives #26: The Cost of Change, with Kathryn Bertine
Former pro cyclist and successful lobbyist for the Tour de France Femmes, Kathryn Bertine joins the podcast to discuss her new memoir about these efforts, STAND, which details what it took, and what i...
28 Jul 20232h 5min
Ten Minute Tips #29: Training Myths, Part 3: Volume
This episode discusses (and debunks) five training myths regarding training volume, and your listener questions asked on Kolie's Instagram. Myths addressed: -You can overtrain on volume but not inten...
10 Jul 20231h 41min
Watts Doc #44: Calcium Is An Underappreciated Aerobic Adaptive Signal
This episode looks at two classic studies illustrating the often overlooked connection between calcium and endurance performance by way of inducing mitochondrial biogenesis through more familiar pathw...
12 Jun 20231h 24min
Ten Minute Tips #28: FTP and VO2max Thoughts and Listener Questions
This episode contains expanded musings on VO2max and FTP training and progression, based on the years of feedback since the VO2max series debuted. We talk about whether or not you need to work in bloc...
14 Mai 20231h 27min
Perspectives #25: The Coaching and Training Behind A Paris-Roubaix Victory, with Adam Pulford
Adam Pulford, coach of Alison Jackson, joins to discuss the methods and ideas behind training and coaching a professional cyclist, using his article analyzing Jackson's Paris-Roubiax winning power fil...
1 Mai 20231h 32min
500k: Roasting Kolie's Early Training Plans
To celebrate a half million podcast listens, we roast some of the earliest training plans Kolie wrote almost a decade ago. We get into lessons learned and how the coaching has changed, changing traini...
16 Apr 20232h 3min
