184: Q&A on Triathlon, Running, GI Distress, and Knee Warmers, with Joe Gambles
Joe Gambles has been racing triathlon professionally for nearly 25 years and has been coaching for the last seven years. We've gathered many of our triathlon-specific questions for the right athlete a...
7 Okt 20211h 5min
183: Developing Youth Athletes, with USA Cycling’s Alec Pasqualina
Young athletes have a host of concerns outside of sport that make their development a unique, challenging undertaking. While they can often be sponges for new information, skills, and techniques, they...
30 Sep 20211h 22min
182: Q&A on Polarized Training, Ramping Down Your Season, and Ruining Workouts, with Rebecca Gross
With the help of Rebecca Gross, owner of 3six0 Performance, we field questions on polarized training, how to effectively close out a season, whether you can ruin workouts with indulgences or poor slee...
23 Sep 202147min
181: Riding the Edge in Cyclocross, with Stephen Hyde
Today we’re talking cyclocross, a discipline that is as demanding as it is rewarding and educational. Because there are so many variables in ’cross, athletes are constantly being challenged and consis...
16 Sep 20211h 36min
180: Transformative Endurance Challenges
In 2021, four of us on the Fast Talk Labs staff—our producer Jana, Head Coach Ryan, Trevor, and me—chose an N1 Challenge. You’ve hopefully heard us speak about it previously on the show. It was meant ...
9 Sep 202159min
179: Do You Need a Mentor? With Coach Connor’s Mentor, Glenn Swan
If you’ve listened to Fast Talk for any length of time, you’ve likely heard the name Glenn Swan. That’s because Glenn was Coach Connor’s first and, arguably, most influential mentor in the sport of cy...
2 Sep 20211h 28min
178: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Chronic Training Load (CTL)
CTL. Chronic Training Load has rapidly gained in popularity among endurance athletes, but how well understood is this complex metric? Today we discuss the benefits of CTL, as well as the issues that c...
26 Aug 20211h 28min
177: Exploring Heat Stress and Heat Stroke, with Dr. William Adams
In June, Trevor went to Moab for what he thought would be a nice vacation filled with mountain biking with friends. It turned into a stressful, harrowing experience when one friend was evacuated to th...
19 Aug 20211h 19min
