CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE Should You Trust The “Recovery Score” From Your Wearable Device? Should you trust your training plan or the “recovery score” on your Oura, WHOOP, or Garmin to tell you whether you are ready to train today? I’ve been coaching endurance athletes for …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE Periodizing Strength Training for Cyclists: How to Integrate Lifting Year-Round Strength training is an essential component of a comprehensive training plan for cyclists. Strength training for cyclists may have been a controversial topic years ago, but both sports science and practical experience …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE The Most Damaging Self-Coached Athlete Mistakes Although there are a ton of resources out there for self-coached athletes, I see cyclists managing their own training make the same mistakes over and over again. I also recognize that not every athlete wants to …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE 24 Years of Cycling Coaching in One List What if I could distill 24 years of cycling coaching experience into a single blog post? That’s essentially the challenge I gave myself, and the list below is the result. Each of the points …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE How to Nail Your Next 100-Mile Bike Ride A century ride, or 100-mile bike ride, is a right of passage for cyclists. In a world that sometimes normalizes extremes, like 200-mile gravel races and 100-mile high-altitude mountain bike races, you could mistakenly …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE Torque Training for Cycling: How To Do It The Right Way Torque workouts are one of the misconstrued aspects of cycling training. Most athletes think torque training is simply shifting into a heavy gear and grinding along at a low cadence. That’s …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE Sprints and repeated accelerations out of corners are the first things that come to mind when most cyclists think about criterium racing. As a result, the prevailing mentality is that anaerobic training is what makes the all the difference for crit-focused racers. …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE Best Ways To Build Recovery Weeks for Cyclists Recovery weeks sound like the easiest part of training to get right. Take a week off. Rest until you feel fresh and ready to train again. After 20 years of coaching cyclists, I can …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE Grand Tour Training: Inside Alison Jackson’s Tour de France Femmes Preparation The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift is only five years old but it has already become one of the biggest races – if not the biggest – on the calendar. …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE The Two Best Intervals to Increase VO2 Max Hard interval workouts make up a relatively small percentage of total training time, but they are critically important for maximizing performance. If you have been diligently executing your VO2 max intervals but you’re not …