CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE 8 Harmful Offseason Mistakes Cyclists Make The time after a focused cycling season can be the most troublesome part of the year for athletes. Some turn a break into a different kind of training block. They head straight to the gym, start …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE Rate My Training: Advice For A 67-Year-Old Gravel Racer Wanting To Go an Hour Faster at Unbound Here’s the Rate My Training setup: We asked self-coached athletes in our audience to share their TrainingPeaks data so we could rate their training, figure …
CHOOSE YOUR FORMAT ►WATCH THE VIDEO ►LISTEN TO THE PODCAST ►READ THE ARTICLE 7 Cycling Products That Aren’t Worth Buying Cycling can be an expensive sport, but you can make it outlandishly expensive by wasting money on cycling products that neither make you faster nor improve your experience on the bike. We’re not here to …
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. …