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Empirical Cycling Podcast — 206 episodes · page 1 of 3
Ten Minute Tips #83: Making Unstructured Training Effective
Ten Minute Tips #82: What Your Power Profile Can And Can't Tell You
Watts Doc #66: We Need To Talk About Lactate (Again)
Ten Minute Tips #81: Planning Around Interruptions and Inconveniences
Ten Minute Tips #80: Learning From Your Season
Ten Minute Tips #79: When Fitness Gets Hard To Track
Ten Minute Tips #78: The Upsides And Downsides Of Training Plans
Watts Doc #65: Measuring Training Responsiveness
Ten Minute Tips #77: How Not To Break Up With Your Bike This Season
Watts Doc #64: A Replication Crisis Is A Crisis Of Confidence
Watts Doc #63: Confronting Uncertainty In Training And Data
Ten Minute Tips #76: Building Race Fitness
Ten Minute Tips #75: The Art Of Autoregulation (Training To Vibes)
Perspectives #41: Macros, Determining Energy Needs, Nutrient Timing, with Tim Podlogar
Ten Minute Tips #74: FTP Training Mistakes (And Solutions)
Watts Doc #62: Setting Up Your n=1 Training Experiment
Ten Minute Tips #73: Things We Wish We Knew About Training, Racing, and Coaching
Ten Minute Tips #72: The Roles Of Stimulus And Recovery In Plateaus
Watts Doc #61: Quantifying Diminishing Returns
Ten Minute Tips #71: Avoiding Panic Training (Starts Now)
Ten Minute Tips #70: Fitness Beyond FTP
Ten Minute Tips #69: The Case For Riding Easier
Watts Doc #60: Durability's Limitations
Ten Minute Tips #68: Using Data In Coaching
Watts Doc #59: A Muscle Glycogen Paradox
1M: AMA
Ten Minute Tips #67: Making The Most Of Winter Training
Ten Minute Tips #66: The Best (And Worst) Training Habits
Ten Minute Tips #65: Why Training Or Racing Experience Shouldn't Determine Training Volume
Watts Doc #58: Creatine's Actual Effects On Cycling Performance
Ten Minute Tips #64: Diagnosing And Training Weaknesses In The Off-Season
Watts Doc #57: Finding FTP By Feel Is Easier Than You Think
Watts Doc #56: Strength Training Strategies To Avoid Weight Gain
Ten Minute Tips #63: The Best And Worst Ways To Test FTP
Ten Minute Tips #62: Why FTP Isn't For Setting Training Zones (And Alternative Approaches)
Perspectives #40: Energy Expenditure And Compensation, with Eric Trexler
Ten Minute Tips #61: Coach Q&A on Limiters, Low Volume Rest Weeks, Resuming Training, Under-Optimized Training, & More
Watts Doc #55: The "Right" VO2max Training, and 30/15s Epilogue
Ten Minute Tips #60: The FTP Training Decision Tree
Watts Doc #54: Glycogen's Effects On AMPK
Ten Minute Tips #59: Considerations For Cramps
Ten Minute Tips #58: Why Rest Can Be So Scary
Ten Minute Tips #57: Our Coaches Answer Your Training Questions
Ten Minute Tips #56: Resetting Goals And Motivation
Perspectives #39: An Unexpected Balance, with James McKay
Ten Minute Tips #55: When To Take A Rest Week, Trusting Subjective Metrics
Watts Doc #53: The Origins Of Newbie Gains
Ten Minute Tips #54: The Truth About Junk Miles
Ten Minute Tips #53: Leveling Up Parenting And Training
Ten Minute Tips #52: Intermediate Training Mistakes (And Solutions)
Watts Doc #52: Hypoxia Inducible Factor's Diminishing Returns
Ten Minute Tips #51: RPE, Workout Feedback, Adaptation, and Health Outcomes
Perspectives #38: Training Intensity Distributions, NIRS, and Iliac Arteries, with Jem Arnold
Ten Minute Tips #50: Fat And Carb Burning Myths
Ten Minute Tips #49: Practical Proxies For Stimulus
Ten Minute Tips #48: Avoiding Over-Optimization
Ten Minute Tips #47: Strength Training With Limited Equipment
Ten Minute Tips #46: Pitfalls Of Science Interpretation And Communication
Perspectives #37: Practical Performance Psychology, with Billy Ryan
Perspectives #36: The Consequences Of Chronic Underfueling, with Traci Carson
Ten Minute Tips #45: The Simplest Training Plan Thought Experiment
Ten Minute Tips #44: What's So Sweet About Sweetspot
Watts Doc #51: The Complicated Relationship Between Performance and Phenotype
Ten Minute Tips #43: Off Season Breaks and Massive Listener Q&A
Ten Minute Tips #42: The Training Implications Of Strength As A Skill
Perspectives #35: Continuously Realizing Potential, with Cole Tamburri
Watts Doc #50: Hypoxia And Muscular Adaptation
Ten Minute Tips #41: How To Try New Training Methods
Ten Minute Tips #40: Training Mistakes Every Beginner Makes (And Solutions)
Ten Minute Tips #39: Individualizing Training For Crits, CX, And MTB
Ten Minute Tips #38: Balancing Training And Rest During Race Season
Perspectives #34: Quantifying Training Volume, with Marinus Petersen
Perspectives #33: The Psychology Of Excellence
Perspectives #32: Coaching Mistakes, And What Makes A Good Coach
Ten Minute Tips #37: Pacing And Programming Endurance Rides
Watts Doc #49: Endurance Intensity and Volume
Ten Minute Tips #36: How To Leave Your Coach (or Yourself) Workout Feedback
Ten Minute Tips #35: Higher FTP vs Longer TTE
Watts Doc #48: How PGC-1ɑ Does and Doesn't Live Up To The Hype
Ten Minute Tips #34: Intermediate and Advanced Strength Training Mistakes (and Solutions)
Ten Minute Tips #33: Track Training Considerations
Ten Minute Tips #32: Where Training Zones Fall Short
Perspectives #31: Race Specific Intensity and Tapering, with Alex Carmona
Watts Doc #47: The Redox Role In Adaptation, Recovery, and Nutrition
Ten Minute Tips #31: How To Take A Rest Day (And How To Avoid Screwing It Up)
Perspectives #30: Being Faster Than Your Watts, with Giancarlo Bianchi
Ten Minute Tips #30: Strength Training Mistakes Every Cyclist Makes
Watts Doc #46: Why Low Glycogen Training Probably Doesn't Work
Perspectives #29: Managing Fitness And Rest During Race Season, with Taylor Warren
Perspectives #28: Training Takes and Season Retrospective, with Maeghan Easler
Watts Doc #45: How High Intensity Aerobic Adaptations With AMPK Do (And Don't) Work
Perspectives #27: Common Reasons For Fitness Plateaus and Their Fixes, with Rory Porteous
Perspectives #26: The Cost of Change, with Kathryn Bertine
Ten Minute Tips #29: Training Myths, Part 3: Volume
Watts Doc #44: Calcium Is An Underappreciated Aerobic Adaptive Signal
Ten Minute Tips #28: FTP and VO2max Thoughts and Listener Questions
Perspectives #25: The Coaching and Training Behind A Paris-Roubaix Victory, with Adam Pulford
500k: Roasting Kolie's Early Training Plans
Feedzone News Announces Research Program in Fitness, Health, and Wellness
Perspectives #24: Continuous Glucose Monitors, Kristen Faulkner, and Athlete Health