How To Become A Pro Cyclist with Jack Burke

If you want more (everything) ➡️ skool.com/skool4cyclistsbooks ➡️ howtobecomeaprocyclist.comMatt Beers is one of the best gravel & MTB Marathon cyclists in the world and has won Cape Epic 4 times. This episode has everything from his path to getting there, crazy stories and the deep dives into his training.

This is a coaching call from SKOOL 4 Cyclists with Filip Saidl who’s a 20 year old Czech rider trying to make it pro and also a member in SKOOL. He asked a bunch of great questions I hope help a lot of you and if you want more of these recordings, there’s hundreds of hours like this in SKOOL. We also have group calls like this all the time where anyone in SKOOL can jump on if you want to do a call like this with me or any other members in SKOOL.skool.com/skool4cyclists

More content (everything) ➡️ skool.com/skool4cyclistsbooks ➡️ howtobecomeaprocyclist.comChris Carmichael is one of the best known and most successful American coaches. Teammates with Greg lemond, coached Lance Armstrong and many others, as well as building one of the most successful coaching businesses in north America. This is an episode for anyone who wants to focus on training specific stuff as we touch on basics and the more advanced stuff they were doing with supplemental oxygen and altitude camps for the Olympics to name just one topic we covered. For the training nerds, this is a great one 😊🤓💪

More content ➡️ skool.com/skool4cyclistsBooks ➡️ howtobecomeaprocyclist.comMason Hollyman is a British rider who rode for the Israel Premier Tech academy team then the pro team for 2 years before deciding to end his career and figure out the next chapter after pro cycling. If you want to hear the stories about exactly what it took for Mason to make it pro in Europe and the good and tough stories once you’ve made it, then figuring out what to do next after pro cycling when this is all you’ve known your whole life, there’s a ton of great stories in here and advice for those who want to follow the same path.

For more content ➡️ skool.com/skool4cyclistsbooks ➡️ howtobecomeaprocyclist.comMatxin is the general manager and head of scouting for UAE team emirates and is regarded as the best scout in pro cycling.

more content ➡️ skool.com/skool4cyclistsbooks ➡️ howtobecomeaprocyclist.comJack Thompson is one of the best ultra endurance cyclists in the world. Jack recovered from drugs & alcohol in rehab and came out to create an incredibly succesful youtube channel and become one of the best ultra cyclists in the world, shattering many world records along the way.

More Content ➡️ skool.com/skool4cyclistsBooks ➡️ howtobecomeaprocyclist.comSvein Tuft is a former Canadian pro cyclist and Olympian who was on the podium at the Elite World Championships TT and wore the pink jersey at the Giro. His new book "We Will Never Be Here Again" tells the unbelievable stories from how he made it.

More content ➡️ skool.com/skool4cyclistsBooks ➡️ howtobecomeaprocyclist.comJohan Bruyneel is a former pro cyclist & director. He's currently a host on one of the biggest cycling podcasts, The Move, which gives insight and coverage on current racing.

Giacomo Notari is a coach on UAE Team Emirates. For more content or the books, go to howtobecomeaprocyclist.com.

Scott Frey is a brain scientist from Harvard and now helps athletes on the mental side of performance.you can find more of his work at cerebralperformance.com

The next book, Mindless Eating For Cyclists, comes out December 2025. It will only be available at howtobecomeaprocyclist.com

A letter to younger me.

Jonny Wale is a track cyclist, technical performance manager at RedBull Bora Hansgrohe and was previously a performance engineer at INEOS Grenadiers. Jonny is a wealth of knowledge for optimizing performance from an engineers point of view. 

Dan Bigham is an engineer on the performance team for RedBull Bora Hansgrohe, Olympic silver medalist, author, former hour record holder and founder of Watt Shop.

For those of you missing more episodes, they will be back. Here's what's to look forward to.

Mattia Gaffuri is an Italian cyclist and one of the best amateur cyclists in the world who races on the road and gravel. 

Allen Lim is an American coach and nutritionist who’s worked with many of the best cyclists in the world over the last 20 years. Allen co founded Skratch Labs, a nutrition company for endurance athletes. A brilliant mind in endurance sport and a generous human being dedicated to helping athletes chase their dreams.

The greatest mountain sports athlete of all time. Training science, crazy stories & so much more. Save this one for an epic long day in the mountains to listen to.

Dr. Bent Rønnestad is a leading sports science professor at Inland Norway University, specializing in pro cycling training. His research on strength training, interval protocols, heat training and periodization optimizes performance for elite cyclists. If you read the scientific studies around training, you almost certainly know the name.

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Henri Uhlig is a 23 year old German rider for Alpecin Deceuninck.

Tim Declercq in a Belgian professional cyclist on Lidl Trek and regarded as one of the best domestiques in pro cycling from the last 10 years.

Giacomo Notari is an Italian coach for UAE Team Emirates.

Grace Brown is an Australian former pro cyclist and one of the best female cyclists of the modern era. Olympic Champion, World Champion and many more.

This podcast is a preview of the next book which comes out in December 2025 (or whenever I decide it’s good enough) as well as a bunch of quick tips for weight loss. These are a few tips which work well for me and if you ride your bike 10 hours a week or more and are struggling with your weight, you’ll love this. 

Ollie Eisenbach is a German bike fitter and Insoles maker. He’s one of the best bike fitters in the world and has helped many of the best cyclists in the world for over a decade. His company SoleStars makes the best custom cycling insoles I know of and are used by many of the best cyclists in the world. If you want to learn about bike fitting or cycling insoles, this is the guy.

This episode is with Gabriel Gallo (Knowledge is Watt on Instagram) where we answered as many of your questions as possible. If you like training science, this is the most dense episode I've put out yet.

David Bailey is a physiologist and coach. He's been a performance director at Israel Premier Tech, British Cycling, BMC Racing & Bahrain McLaren.

Attila Valter is a 26 year old Hungarian rider for Visma Lease a Bike and was 4th at the 2024 Olympics road race. He’s raced in the world tour for 6 years on CCC, FDJ and now Visma Lease a Bike.

Carlos Verona is a 32 year old Spanish rider for Lidl Trek. He’s raced in the world tour for 14 years on Quickstep, Mitchelton Scott, Movistar & Lidl Trek and won a stage of the Dauphine.

Kevin Vermaerke is a 24 year old American rider on Picnic PostNL and was one of the best young riders to come out of the US in the last 10 years. He’s raced the Tour de France twice, won the U23 Liège Bastongne Liège and been 4th at San Sebastian.

Luke Lamperti is a 21 year old American pro cyclist for Soudal Quick-Step

Luis Joe Lührs is a 21 year old German rider who was one of the best Junior cyclists in the world. He then went straight from the Junior’s to the world tour, skipping the U23 category to instead race for RedBull Bora Hansgrohe for the last 3 years. 

This episode is just me, Jack. Here's a new fuel source I came across which has been awesome for my training because I can get all my fuel just in my bottles. There's also a bunch of other tips around winter riding and nutrition, I'm sure you'll get something good out of this one. Enjoy!

Steve Neal has been a Canadian Cycling coach for over 30 years and is my personal coach. You can find him anywhere @stevenealperformance

Steven de Jongh is a Dutch former pro cyclist and current sports director at Lidl Trek.

Louis Meintjes is a South African rider for Intermarche Wanty. He's finished top 10 GC in the Tour de France 3 times and is one of the best and most consistent GC riders in the world

Frank van den Broek is a 23 year old Dutch pro cyclist for DSM-firmenich PostNL. In his first year in the world tour he raced the Tour de France, where on stage 1 him and his teammate Romain Bardet went 1-2, meaning Frank was 2nd on his first stage in the Tour de France in his first year in the world tour.

Xert is a Canadian training software and the best training tool I have found in my career since I started keeping training records. This is a game changer.

This is a podcast I did with Emulation. Emulation is 2 French journalists, William & Robin who cover the stories behind famous athletes. Follow their Instagram account @emulation_ for more stories on athletes you've probably seen on TV.

Stefan de Bod is a 28 year old South African rider on EF Education Easy Post who has raced in the world tour for 6 years.

Toms Skujiņš is a Latvian world tour rider for Lidl Trek and one of the best cyclists in the world. In 2024 he was 2nd at Strade Bianche, 5th in the Olympic road race & 4th at the world championships.

Thomas Gloag is a 23 year old British Rider on Visma Lease a Bike.

Harry Sweeny is an Australian pro cyclist for EF Education - Easy Post.

Jasha Sütterlin is a German professional cyclist for Jayco Alula.

Asbjørn Hellemose is a 25 year old Danish pro cyclist for Jayco Alula

Mona Mitterwallner is an Austrian professional mountain biker, Olympian and 5 time world champion. She’s also 22 years old.

Lorenzo Finn is an Italian rider on the Red Bull Bora Junior team and the 2024 Junior Mens Road Race World Champion.

Dajo Sanders is a coach and sports scientists on Ineos Grenadiers where he coaches some of the best riders in the world and collaborates with many of the best minds in human physiology regarding cycling performance.