Ten Minute Tips #43: Off Season Breaks and Massive Listener Q&A
This episode, seven Empirical Cycling coaches discuss their professional and personal experience with off season breaks. Balancing downtime and rest with fun and unstructured riding, plus some rules o...
28 Okt 20242h 5min
Ten Minute Tips #42: The Training Implications Of Strength As A Skill
Kyle returns to the podcast with balloon stories, but skip to 28:00 for the main topic of strength being a skill, and the training implications that this has. We discuss defining strength, goal settin...
16 Okt 20241h 46min
Perspectives #35: Continuously Realizing Potential, with Cole Tamburri
This episode we discuss Cole's evolution as a cyclist and our relationship between coach and athlete. From making lifelong friends in collegiate cycling, gaining over 100w of FTP, winning a national c...
23 Sep 20241h 26min
Watts Doc #50: Hypoxia And Muscular Adaptation
We consider hypoxia inducible factor's muscular response to high intensity exercise before going more in depth in its effects with the next episodes. We break down high intensity training, defining hy...
4 Sep 20241h 11min
Ten Minute Tips #41: How To Try New Training Methods
We discuss the dos and don'ts of trying new training methods. Whether or not you should try something new, setting a baseline, going all in on one thing, variables to adjust, finding a minimum dose, i...
5 Aug 20241h 31min
Ten Minute Tips #40: Training Mistakes Every Beginner Makes (And Solutions)
This episode we discuss the ten most common mistakes we see beginners make in their training plans, and their solutions. Goals and outcomes, learning the process, metrics and performance, specializati...
30 Jul 20241h 34min
Ten Minute Tips #39: Individualizing Training For Crits, CX, And MTB
Retired professional road and cyclocross racer and newest Empirical Cycling coach Erica Zaveta joins to share wisdom from twenty years of competition and a decade of coaching. We discuss individualizi...
18 Jul 20241h 43min
Ten Minute Tips #38: Balancing Training And Rest During Race Season
Kolie and Rory discuss their lists of the best things to do or avoid to maintain fitness in race season, and balance with appropriate rest. Also touched on are race prioritization, training and progre...
17 Jun 20241h 26min
