The ability to balance life, training, and racing is as much an art as it is a science. It involves self-care, cultivating relationships, knowing your personal limits, and working to keep your passions alive while training and racing.
And it’s also about knowing how and when to use data—or set data aside.
Our hosts talk about why we shouldn’t believe that more is always better, how to build a weekly time trial series into your training, and what research we’d like to see conducted.
Our team dives into these important topics and along the way, Grant shows his “dadness,” while Rob and Trevor argue while making the same point.
Coaches ask their questions during this recording of a live Q&A with coach Joe Friel. This event covered many topics including the business of coaching, motivating athletes, helping athletes reach difficult goals, and how to help athletes balance life and training.
Is more better? We explore how our bodies adapt to training and why the right amount of stress at the right times is a far better way to train than going hard all the time.
Coach Wenzel helps answer questions on travel, final race prep, big gear work on LSD rides, pushing through exhaustion, and training races.
Just because you have limited time doesn’t mean you can’t create a training plan that involves an overload stimulus. We show you how.
We explore how athletes can evolve and find more fulfillment from their sport with pro cyclist Lachlan Morton
How much training is too much? Where is the drop-off in terms of time spent training and race-day results?
Many athletes worry that they will lose fitness if they skip too many days of training. While detraining does occur over time, there are also many benefits to taking a break.
Pick a flat or mostly flat terrain, start biking, then listen to Colby Pearce’s moving meditation podcast to relax and think deeply as you ride.
Train by data or train by feel? Here to unpack the duality of data and intuition in endurance athletics is cycling coach and former pro cyclist, Julie Young.
In his continued efforts to help you find balance between life and sport, in this episode, Colby focuses on the six foundational principles of a well-balanced life, as prescribed by Paul Chek of the Chek Institute.
We take a step back, off the bike, to focus on the alignment of your mental state.
In episode 104, we wanted to give you something you’ve come to love about Fast Talk: a discussion on the science of training, and specifically answering your training questions about respiratory exchange rates, effectively using your bike commutes, and how to balance life with training.
We discuss self-care, spending time on relationships, knowing your personal limits, and working to keep your passions alive while training and racing.
Dr. Paul Gastin, Brent Brookwalter, Mac Cassin, Frank Overton, and Armando Mastracci join us to talk about the most important part of training: recovery.