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Empirical Cycling Podcast — 199 episodes
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
Ten Minute Tips #27: Programming Over-Under Workouts
Watts Doc #43: Over-Unders Are Not Special
Perspectives #23: Weight Loss Diets for Endurance Performance, with Namrita Brooke
Ten Minute Tips #26: The Case Against Erg Mode
Perspectives #22: The Cognitive Dissonance Of Silver Bullet Training, with Patrick Smith
Watts Doc #42:The Relationship Between Size And Power
Watts Doc #41: Does Overtraining Actually Make Mitochondria Dysfunction?
Perspectives #21: Behind The New American 40km ITT Record, with Cory Lockwood
Ten Minute Tips #25: What's So Special About "Zone 2"?
Perspectives #20: The Reality of Data In Training and Coaching, with Tim Cusick
400k: AMA
Watts Doc #40: Endurance Adaptation Is Not Substrate Oxidation
Ten Minute Tips #24: You Are Not Your CTL
Perspectives #19: Adaptation, Signaling, and Performance, with Andy Coggan
Perspectives #18: Overcoming Historical Inertia, with Andy Coggan
Perspectives #17: Evolution vs Revolution, with Mikael Eriksson
Ten Minute Tips #23: How Much FTP Training Is Too Much?
Watts Doc #39: Why You Probably Can't Hold Your FTP For An Hour
Ten Minute Tips #22: Training Myths, Part 2
Perspectives #16: Experiment vs Experience, with Marinus Petersen
Ten Minute Tips #21: Individualization Is Why It Always Depends
Perspectives #15: A Discussion on Strength Training, with RJ Boergers and Angelo Gingerelli
Ten Minute Tips #20: Training Myths, Part 1
Watts Doc #38: Phosphocreatine Is A Critical Aerobic Energy System
Perspectives #14: Kitchen Sink Conversation, with Matt DesRoches
300k: Time Crunched Training
Perspectives #13: Overtraining Sucks, with Katie Aman
Perspectives #12: A Deep Dive Into Ride Food, with Namrita Brooke
Ten Minute Tips #19: FTP Testing Shortcuts
Perspectives #11: The Best Workout Is Not Working Out, with Adam Pulford
NASA Physicist Reveals String Theory SECRET to UNLOCKING Your Cycling Performance
Perspectives #10: A Guide To Time Trialing, with Cory Lockwood
Watts Doc #37: Your Fast Twitch Fibers Probably As Aerobic As Your Slow Twitch
Watts Doc #36: How Power Meters Make Lactate Testing Nearly Obsolete
Perspectives #9: Pragmatic Physiology and Nutrition, with Tim Podlogar
Perspectives #8: Why It's Hard To Rest, with Patrick Smith
2021 Best of Instagram AMA Questions
Ten Minute Tips #18: Metrics Are Not Fitness
Ten Minute Tips #17: Sweetspot vs Polarized Is Kayfabe
Perspectives #7: How To Design A Workout For A Million People, with Shayne Gaffney
Ten Minute Tips #16: Can Functional Training Get Too Functional?
Watts Doc #35: Fatmax Fallacies
Perspectives #6: 2021 Season Review and 2022 Planning, with Ingvar Ómarsson
Perspectives #5: Coaching the Process, with Cory Lockwood
Ten Minute Tips #15: Periodizing Strength Training for Cycling Performance
200k: The Best And Worst Workouts
Watts Doc #34: Why Keto Is Not The Diet You're Looking For
Ten Minute Tips #14: Sets and Reps for Strength Training
Ten Minute Tips #13: What Strength Exercises Should You Do?
Ten Minute Tips #12: Getting Into Strength Training
Perspectives #4: High Functioning Lunatics, with Patrick Smith
Perspectives #3: USA Crits 2021, with Alex Carmona and Taylor Warren
Watts Doc #33: Fats vs Carbs Part II - Carnitine and VLamax
Watts Doc #32: What Is Aerobic? Fats vs Carbs
Instagram and Reddit AMA!
Perspectives #2: How To Manage Sickness, with Dr. Fabiano Araujo
Watts Doc #31: How and Why We Burn Carbs
Ten Minute Tips #11: Integrating Physiology Into Coaching
Perspectives #1: The Challenges of Self Coaching, with Alex Carmona
Watts Doc #30: What Limits Fat Use
Watts Doc #29: Why Fat Oxidation Is Anaerobic
2020 Best of Instagram AMA Questions
Ten Minute Tips #10: How To Read A Scientific Paper
Watts Doc #28: Why HIT May Not Make You Faster
Watts Doc #27: Training Repeated Sprint Ability
100k AMA
Ten Minute Tips #9: Drills To Hone Your Sprint Technique
Ten Minute Tips #8: Back Squat Stance
Ten Minute Tips #7: Breathing For Heavy Lifting
Watts Doc #26: FTP Testing Revisited
Watts Doc #25: Everesting Training and Preparation
Watts Doc #24: Listener Questions on VO2max Training and Rønnestad 30/15s
Watts Doc #23: Training Your VO2max, and Why Not Rønnestad 30/15 Intervals
Watts Doc #22: The Fick Equation Part 2 - Heart Adaptations For VO2max
Student Union #2: East Coast Roundtable
Watts Doc #21: VO2max and The Most Interesting Protein In The World
Watts Doc #20: The Fick Equation Part 1 - A VO2 Difference
Watts Doc #19: The VO2max Slow Component Explained
Watts Doc #18: Why Everything You Know About VO2max Power Is Probably Wrong
Watts Doc #17: Why We Really Make Lacate
Training and Season Planning of Pandemic Proportions
The Watts Doc #16: Listener Questions on FTP Training
Ten Minute Tips #6: ATP and Disequilibrium
Ten Minute Tips #5: How Much Does Rotating Weight Matter?
Watts Doc #15: Heart Rate or Power To Pace Endurance Rides?
The Watts Doc #14: Effective FTP Training
Ten Minute Tips #4: Stress & Strain - Do your intervals do what you think they do?
Ten Minute Tips #3: Bro Science
Watts Doc #13: What's So Radical About Oxygen?
The Watts Doc #12: Can Fiber Type Predict Carb or Fat Use?
Ten Minute Tips #2: Homemade Hydration Mix
The Watts Doc #11: FTP vs VO2max
Ten Minute Tips #1: Training For Cyclocross Season
Race Report: 2019 Cascade Classic
The Watts Doc #10: Can Fat-Adaptive Diets Lead To Better Performance Through Glycogen Sparing?
The Watts Doc #9: Strength, Endurance, and the Size Principle
Student Union #1: Collegiate Nationals and The Art Of The TTT
The Watts Doc #8: FTP vs Critical Power
The Watts Doc #7: What Is Base Really?
The Watts Doc #6: Lactate Myths and Truths
Talking To Ashton Lambie
The Watts Doc #5: Can You Lift Heavy While Endurance Training?
The Watts Doc #4: How High Intensity Interval Training Makes You Faster
The Watts Doc #3: Is There Anything Special About 2x20?
The Watts Doc #2: Why You're Training Too Hard For Criteriums
The Watts Doc #1: FTP Testing