With Daylight Savings Time ending this weekend, we’ll be rolling the clocks back an hour and ushering in the months of earlier sunsets. Commuters will spend more time riding home in the dark. For mountain bikers and gravel and road riders, it’s a great opportunity to clip on some lights and enjoy cycling at night! …
Topics Covered In This Episode: Benefits of Strength Training Why strength training shouldn’t be just off-season or cross training If you’re going to do strength training, it’s best to do it year round A Simple Process to Follow: 4 Strength Training Levels we use at CTS to identify where to start How to use these …
If you want to go long, burn fat. If you want to go fast, burn carbohydrate. Athletic performance is not that simple, of course, because you burn both – and a little protein – at all times, during all activities, and at any intensity level. However, the basic premise still stands: you rely more heavily …
Catching up with gravel and mountain bike pro Russell Finsterwald is no easy feat. He even goes on vacation fast. The day after winning the final major gravel cycling race of the 2022 season, Big Sugar in Bentonville, Arkansas, and finishing third overall in the Lifetime Gran Prix, Finsterwald flew directly to Mexico for some …
Topics Covered In This Episode: The “Screaming Barfies” – yes, it’s a real thing. Raynaud’s Phenomenon Non-temperature related causes of Raynaud’s Phenomenon Primary and Secondary Raynaud’s Phenomenon Increased risks for women Treating and preventing the effects of Raynaud’s Phenomenon and other cold-related injuries HOST Corrine Malcolm has been a CTS Coach for more than 5 …
Middle-aged athletes – men and women – are used to facing criticism or skepticism from our sedentary peers. It’s a midlife crisis, vanity, an attempt to recapture our youth, a way of denying that we’re getting older, and the list goes on. What they fail to understand is that we don’t train to hold on …
Accomplishing ambitious goals in endurance sports requires planning. CTS Coaches prepare elite athletes for success at the world’s premier events, as well as first-timers to take on challenging personal goals, and all athletes between these two extremes. The specific workouts and plans vary widely, but the underlying process is rooted in the same fundamentals of …
Topics Covered In This Episode: What detraining is and why you need it What happens when you lighten your training load How to detrain correctly Absolute vs. Relative Chronic Training Load (CTL) Physical and psychological consequences of lowering CTL Coach AP’s Recipe for Detraining How much CTL should be lost during detraining phase? Host Adam …
Topics Covered In This Episode: What you need to know about protein How much protein athletes need daily Why ultradistance athletes should ingest protein DURING runs and races Purposes and recommendations for post-workout protein intake Importance of branched chain amino acids (BCAAs) for endurance athletes Food sources of leucine HOST Corrine Malcolm has been a …
Communication is important. In fact, it may be the single most important part of any coach-athlete relationship. Years of data and race reports only tell a part of the story. The rest of the narrative, the most important parts, are found in an athlete’s words and subjective descriptions. Coaches gain access to a trove of …