HeyJaredEmpirical Cycling Podcast
Do you want to know how training makes you faster? Listen in. Kolie is a leading expert in endurance, sprint, and strength training for cyclists.
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Watts Doc #66: We Need To Talk About Lactate (Again) (opens the original)
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We take a very deep dive into the world of lactate. Starting out with "metabolic logic" to illustrate how and why lactate gets formed during exercise, we then get into the idea of "glycolytic strength" as well as the lactate shuttle hypothesis. Then we tackle lactate testing, with a critical eye on first threshold (LT1), lactate concentrations and various threshold definitions, as well as sources of variability that affect how valid test results may be. We end with your listener questions, inclu
Ten Minute Tips #81: Planning Around Interruptions and Inconveniences (opens the original)
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This episode goes into our approach to periodization and training around holidays with and without bike access, injury and illness, extreme heat and cold, including how to adjust mid training block. Plus your listener questions on exam stress, weight loss, and more.
Ten Minute Tips #80: Learning From Your Season (opens the original)
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We discuss our process for learning from a season and applying it to the next one. Goals, roadblocks, recovery, availability, progressive overload, health, and more. We also answer your listener questions about what we're looking for in all that data, spotting limiters, race specificity, planning around holidays, and more.
Ten Minute Tips #79: When Fitness Gets Hard To Track (opens the original)
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Today we discuss navigating training and racing when it gets difficult to assess and find confidence in your fitness, including how this is common during and following hard training blocks, mid race season, amidst off bike stressors and poor recovery environments, and more. Included are ways we do and don't track fitness during these times, the reliability of fitness in season, the impact of removing stressors, nutrition, weight, and more. We then answer your listener questions.
Ten Minute Tips #78: The Upsides And Downsides Of Training Plans (opens the original)
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We examine the the ins and outs of training plans and the ways they can help or hurt our short and long term goals. We discuss plans in general and our approach, and tackle items like adaptability and rigidity, goal setting and expectations, time in zone distributions and more. We also answer your listener questions.
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