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Train like a Monk
by Cyrus Monk
Training talk from around the cycling world with professional cyclists and coaches.This series is designed to provide a real insight into how the best athletes are training. No BS.No gimmicks, fads or sexy trends.Just the real deal.
Episodes
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Five Fuelling Mistakes and How to Fix Them | Sports Nutritionist Megan Monk
Sports nutrition has come a long way in the past decade and the records show this. The old adage is that the research often lags behind coaches and athletes but in many cases there's some athletes (us included) that are slow to catch on and still make mistakes around their nutrition. Megan is a...
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Is AI replacing cycling coaches? - Data Scientist Paul-Antoine Girard
Data is now being used everywhere in the sporting world, but nowhere more than in pro cycling.With so much data available, how can coaches and athletes decide which is worth focusing on, and how can the data be used to make better decisions on training?Paul-Antoine Girard has developed a platform...
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Which supplements work best for cyclists? The Doctor's Clinic with Dr. Stephen Lane
There's a lot of supplements being marketed as beneficial to cycling performance, but a much shorter list actually holds up to scientific scrutiny. Even fewer are actually practical to use for cyclists.This episode we talk about supps, Slane's race win up a volcano, and Cyrus' hypothermic/hypoxic...
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Should you use Critical Power? - The Doctor's Clinic with Doctor Stephen Lane
What is Critical Power? What is W'? How does a mathematical model help solve a physiological problem? We answer these questions, ask some more and consider whether it all actually matters in helping you ride your bike faster. Also some chat about how hunting Strava KOMs can fit into a program and...
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Giro Reco with Jensen Plowright
'Fresh' off the Giro d'Italia Jensen interrupts his week off the bike with a cruise up Col d'Eze to the local boulangerie.We chat about what goes on inside the chaotic final sprints, and what goes on inside Jensen's head. You can decide for yourself which is more scary.Drop a comment if you're a...
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What goes into the ideal training program? - The Doctor's Clinic with Dr. Stephen Lane
This week we break down the key sessions we're using with Slane and our other athletes. What are the intervals, which systems are they targeting, and where do they fit into the bigger picture?We also delve into a little sports psychology and mindset discussion on how to attack strength work, hard...
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How can you increase your VO2max power by 50 watts in two weeks? - The Doctor's Clinic with Dr Stephen Lane
Slane is now two weeks into his training program. The focus has been 'mostly' on strength and endurance however he's already seeing rapid improvements in power values well above the bulk of his training. We go into the physiology and adaptations behind getting these watts back after time off, and...
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What’s the best strength training for cyclists? - The Doctor's Clinic with Dr Stephen Lane
Slane gave me a call a few weeks back with a pretty simple assignment: “I want to get fit again, can you write me a program.” After a month off the bike (not sitting on the couch but hiking in Patagonia…) Slane’s numbers are a long way off their best, so in this series we’ll discuss what training...
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Train Like Olympic Gold Medalist Grace Brown
Australia’s Golden Girl Grace joins the pod to talk about how she trained for Olympic and World Championship Gold in her final year as a pro cyclist.Plenty of golden nuggets of wisdom in this one, Grace is a legend. Thumbnail image: GettyMusic: WalterEditing: Terance Hor(s)e
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Training Australia's next Tour de France winner with Coach Dylan Lindsey
The Aussie couch peloton are still recovering from a whirlwind Tour de France with the revelation of this year's TdF Femmes, Sarah Gigante. Sarah is an avid listener and former guest on the pod (go and listen to that episode if you haven't already!) and she has put in more requests than most for...
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Train Like Giro Stage Winner Chris Harper
One of the most consistent performers in the World Tour. Harps provides great insight into how he has continually improved each year since turning pro, and more recently, how he prepared to win his first Grand Tour stage. Fourth Frontier Heartrate Monitors: fourthfrontier.com ***Big apologies for...
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Train Like the Fastest Man in China, Luke Mudgway
Mudgey has been a bit of a journeyman of the sport. Riding for Aussie, Irish, Kiwi and now Chinese teams across a 10-year career to date. Last year he had his biggest prize money earnings to date by winning the China Pro League. What is the China Pro League? What's the racing like in China? How's...
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Training the Mind with National Champ turned Mindset Coach Shannon Malseed
We put so much time, money, blood, sweet and tears into our training to improve our physiology, but how much do we work on our mindset? And how much does this impact our performance on race day? Shannon knows her way around this topic better than most, after pursuing her own career at the top of...
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Train Like TDU Stage Winner Daniek Hangeveld
Daniek started the year with a solo win at the very first race on the World Tour. Instead of chasing her down during her stint in the Ocre Jersey, I got to sit down with her at the end of a training ride near her home in Nice and find out how she started the season so well and what her training…
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Train Like Watt Machine Georgie Howe
Georgie packed a lot into a short stint at the top of the cycling world, but she's not done yet. Hear how Georgie transitioned into cycling from a rowing background and how the training differs (or doesn't) between the two sports. We also go into Georgie's battle with REDS. The steps she's taken…
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Train Like Transition King Jimmy Whelan
From Runner to World Tour Cyclist in less than 4 years. Now from Pro Cyclist to Pro Triathlete in a matter of months. Hear how Jimmy is taking the skills learned and experience gained from top level road cycling and applying it in the world of triathlon. Can he make it to the end of the pool yet...
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Train Like Aussie U23 Champ Julian Baudry
Julian has rapidly gone from being a regular listener of the Train Like a Monk podcast to starring on it! Taking home the U23 National RR win in Perth at just 18 years of age, Julian has bucked the trend of having to sacrifice his schooling to fit in training time on the bike. We discuss how he…
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Train Like Dual Kiwi National Champ Kim Cadzow
Keeper of The Fern, Kim Cadzow, has started the season on fire. She played a major role in EF-Education Oatly teammate Noemi Ruegg's TDU win and achieved her own personal goal of defending the National TT title and netting her first National Road Championships victory. We chatted in the middle of...
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Sports Director for Australia's Biggest One Day Race
Join Pat, Kerry and I in the team car for Duda Cycling at the Melbourne to Warrnambool. "The Warrnie" is the second oldest bike race in the world. The parcours is by no means challenging but the conditions and length of the race mean anyone that completes this historic event has stories to tell…
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Train Like Kiwi Champ Aaron Gate
He's defending his title later this week but it's fair to say, no matter the result, this title will still hold true. Gatey has a ridiculous palmares on both the road and track, the latest achievement becoming the oldest rider ever to join a World Tour Team for the first time (34 is ancient) and...
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Train like Aussie Olympian Maeve Plouffe
Maeve has represented Australia at two Olympic Games, won Commonwealth Games gold and countless National Championships. Alongside her exploits on the bike she has become a well renowned advocate for cycling in Australia and even more so in her home town of Adelaide. I sat down with her at her…
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Train like Tour Down Under Winner Noemi Rüegg
Noemi had a breakout season in 2024, turning heads at the Olympic Games Road Race and netting herself a National Championship. Those who didn't know her already certainly do now, after winning the Tour Down Under in dominant fashion with a memorable win up Willunga Hill. We sat down a few days...
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Train like Mr Green and Gold Bands Luke Plapp
Plappy has made the month of January his own, consistently finding form to start the year. This discussion took place just before his nationals campaign where he not only defended his TT title, but selflessly delivered teammate Luke Durbridge to victory in the road race. We discuss how Plappy...
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Train and Coach like Warrnie Winner Mark O'Brien
Marko is to the Australian Cycling Scene what potato salad is to a Christmas Lunch. Always there, always a crowd favourite but usually not top of the rank, until this year. Marko bucked the recent trend by outstaying the young up-and-comers at this year's 270km Melbourne to Warrnambool. We…
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Train like Queen of the Mountains Sarah Gigante
Sarah turned heads across Australia as soon as she left the junior ranks by taking a National Road Championship in her first race as an elite woman. She's turned heads across the rest of the world this year by winning the Tour Down Under and finishing seventh at the Tour de France Femmes. Despite...
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Coach like Aussie Super-Coach Nick Owen
Nick has a coaching Palmares any coach would envy: countless world and national champions across multiple disciplines and a healthy number of World Tour pros targetting races across the calendar. Nick's pathway into cycling is certainly an interesting one and a story I hadn't heard before, though...
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Train like Maltese Missile Aidan Buttigieg
Aidan was one of the first athletes I took on board as a coach and it's been incredibly rewarding to help him progress from kicking around at local crits in Melbourne to racing World Championships and landing a pro contract. He has forged a unique path to the top of the sport and in doing so has...
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Coach like Aussie Coaching Legend Dr Stephen Lane PhD
Stephen (or SLane as he's commonly known by those who find two syllables too long for a name...) has helped countless cyclists achieve their goals on the bike. Whether it be winning the local club series or making the step from the Aussie domestic scene to a fully-fledged pro. SLane has a unique...
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Train like Spanish Time Trial Champion David De La Cruz
David has had a career most cyclists would dream of. Spanning 14 years and counting and riding for some of the top teams in the sport, Quickstep, Team Sky and Team UAE. He shares some learnings from his time at the top of the sport and discusses how he has continued to improve in the TT…
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Train like former USA Road Race and TT Champ Joey Rosskopf
When I see Joey’s name on the team sheet for a race I’m travelling to, I’m always excited. He is the ultimate teammate both on and off the bike, drawing on his 15 years of racing experience to help the team in almost any race scenario and provide a calming figure on the team bus pre and…
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Train like Top Tier Sprinter Rory Townsend
Rory Patrick Townsend is a former Irish Road Champ and has been the most consistent rider on the Q36.5 Team this season. He excels in sprints at the end of a hard race day and we chat about how he prepares for these in his training (it’s probably not what you’d expect). He has finished inside the...
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Train like Lidl-Trek Latvian Legend Toms Skujins
By now you're probably used to seeing Toms at the pointy end of all the biggest races from the Cobbled Classics to a Strade Bianche podium to the Tour de France. I managed to sit down with him during Deutschland Tour, a race not quite on the same level as the above but one he was certainly at the...
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Train like TDF Commentator Matthew Keenan
If you've watched any bike race from Australia you've likely had the pleasure of listening to Keeno's commentary. He's become the voice of cycling in Aus and has an unmatched encyclopedia of race results and cycling knowledge built into his hard drive. Matt may have used to his gift of the gab to...
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Train like Classics Young Gun Laurence Pithie
Hard core fans will have noticed Loz putting in some strong rides in the harder one day races in previous years, but 2024 has been a breakthrough season where he has shown himself as one of the top contenders in the biggest races on the calendar. Laurence started the year with a win at Cadel's…
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Train like Giro Stage Winner Neve Bradbury
Neve made the step into the pro cycling ranks as a teenager through the Zwift academy which she won in 2020. Fast forward four years and she’s consistently finishing on the GC podium at the toughest climbing races on the women’s calendar, taking some epic stage wins in the process. Find out which...
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Train like Irish Olympian Megan Armitage
From first jumping on a road bike four years ago, to representing Ireland at the Olympics in Paris 2024, Megan has had a rapid rise through the pro cycling ranks. But a fast progression doesn't come without it's challenges and we discuss some of these as well as the different methods Megan has…
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Train like Multi-Discipline Olympian Shannon McCurley
The Olympics are almost here and it's time to talk training like an Olympian with Shannon McCurley. Shannon represented Ireland in the Keirin in Rio 2016 and then made the very uncommon (at least at such a high level) switch from sprint disciplines to track endurance to compete in the Madison in...
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Coach like Q36.5 Team Coach Helmut Dollinger
Who's Coaching the Coach? This week I chat with my Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team Coach, Helmut Dollinger. The easy-going Austrian has worked with many top-level cyclists in the past and draws on his experience as well as the latest research in the field to help me and many of my teammates seek top…
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Train like Glasgow Worlds Star Matt Dinham
Matt is an Aussie climber for team DSM-Firmenich-PostNL who turned enough heads in his first year as a pro to be selected for both the Tour de France and World Championships. His versatility and bunch skills also mean he's up there at the pointy end on almost any kind of parcours. Season 2024...
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Train like Canadian Road Champion Nicholas Zukowsky
Zuke is the reigning Canadian National Road Race Champion and a versatile teammate of mine on Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team. He is one of those riders capable of impacting a race on any terrain from the mountains of Switzerland to the cobblestones of Belgium. He's had a bit of a rough trot of late with...
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Train like World Tour Sprinter Jensen Plowright
Welcome to the Train like a Monk series where I discuss training with professionals at the top of the sport. To get things rolling I talk to Jensen Plowright about training in Nice, why Hawthorn Cycling Club crits are the best training on earth and how to perfectly execute the mid-ride bakery…
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Training talk from around the cycling world with professional cyclists and coaches.This series is designed to provide a real insight into how the best athletes are training. No BS.No gimmicks, fads or sexy trends.Just the real deal.
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Train like a Monk is created and hosted by Cyrus Monk.
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