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Back to SearchHow periodization works… for your nutrition
Episode 23
Forget what you thought you knew about sports nutrition. We speak with Dr. John Hawley, one of the top experts in the world about the cutting edge trends in sports nutrition. Hawley also debunks myth…
Published on 8 years, 5 months ago
Understanding Tour de France strategy
Episode 22
Have you ever turned on a Tour de France stage and found yourself wondering what the heck is going on? Why are these riders off the front? Shouldn’t that team be chasing? In this special Fast Talk ep…
Published on 8 years, 5 months ago
How to ride better in the hot hot heat
Episode 21
Is the heat of summer getting you down? Fast Talk is here to help. Coach Trevor Connor and Caley Fretz are joined once again by Rob Pickels, a physiologist who is currently studying ways to make clot…
Published on 8 years, 6 months ago
Get better at sprinting
Episode 20
You need to sprint faster. Everyone does, except maybe Marcel Kittel and Mark Cavendish. Though sprinting ability is largely a function of genetics, there are still tons of ways to get more out of yo…
Published on 8 years, 6 months ago
Training as a numbers game
Episode 19
What numbers do you use to describe your rides? Some cyclists keep it simple with mileage and time. Others delve into TSS, FTP, or kJ to quantify a day of training. We talk to Dirk Friel of TrainingP…
Published on 8 years, 7 months ago
Top tips for pre-race prep
Episode 18
Your body is ready to race, but is your bike ready? We are joined by VeloNews’s tech team of Dan Cavallari and Kristen Legan to dig into the tech side of proper race preparation. What should you do t…
Published on 8 years, 7 months ago
The art and science of the breakaway
Episode 17
The breakaway. It is perhaps the noblest form of victory, and the most difficult. Joining and then winning from breakaways is as much art as science, as much tactical awareness as strength. In this e…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
Forget what you thought you knew about warm-ups
Episode 16
Everyone has a warm-up routine, which is sometimes simple, and sometimes very complex. But what are we actually achieving with a pre-race routine? Is it helping us or actually hurting our potential t…
Published on 8 years, 8 months ago
Should you eat gummy bears like Sagan?
Episode 15
Should you eat gummy bears like Peter Sagan? Maybe. In this episode, we are joined by Dan Cavallari and Stacy Sims, founder of Osmo who now works with Nuun, to discuss the difference between food and…
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago
Which is better, polarization or sweet spot?
Episode 14
Which is better, sweet spot training or polarized training? To find out, we invited in proponents of each type of training — FasCat’s Frank Overton on the sweet spot side, and Boulder Center for Spor…
Published on 8 years, 9 months ago