Podcast Episodes

Your First Gravel Race: What You Actually Need to Know

Season 6 Episode 325

​​Free Cycling Training Assessment

Preparing for your first gravel race can quickly become more complicated than it needs to be. What bike do you need…

1 day, 1 hour ago

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Should You Trust Your Recovery Score?

Season 6 Episode 324

Your wearable gives you a recovery score every morning, but how much should that number influence your training?

Adam Pulford breaks down the informat…

1 week, 1 day ago

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Strength Training That Follows Your Cycling Season

Season 6 Episode 323

Strength training has a place in a cyclist’s program year-round, but that doesn’t mean doing the same lifts, loads, and routines for 52 weeks.

Adam Pu…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

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The Five Self-Coached Cycling Mistakes That Keep You Stuck

Season 6 Episode 322

Self-coaching gives you freedom, but it also makes it remarkably easy to reinforce your own biases.

Coach Adam Pulford breaks down five mistakes he re…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

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Twenty Coaching Lessons That Make Athletes Better

Season 6 Episode 321

After 24 years of coaching athletes, Adam Pulford has seen enough training plans, races, breakthroughs, failures, and comebacks to recognize which le…

4 weeks, 1 day ago

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The 100-Mile Ride Playbook

Season 6 Episode 320

A successful 100-mile ride is rarely the result of one thing going exceptionally well. It's what happens when your fitness, fueling, pacing, and exec…

1 month ago

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How to Train Torque Without Just Grinding Bigger Gears

Season 6 Episode 319

Torque training has become almost synonymous with low-cadence riding. But simply dropping to 60 RPM doesn't guarantee you're producing more force or …

1 month, 1 week ago

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Why Crit Racers Need More FTP Than They Think

Season 6 Episode 318

Does FTP actually matter for criterium racing?

Coach Adam Pulford breaks down why your aerobic engine plays such a big role in an explosive race, how …

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Stop Fearing The Recovery Week

Season 6 Episode 317

Recovery isn't the break between training. Recovery IS training.

In this episode, CTS Head Cycling Coach Adam Pulford explains how he structures recov…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Behind the Scenes Before the Tour with Alison Jackson

Season 6 Episode 316

Days before the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, Coach Adam Pulford caught up with professional cyclist Alison Jackson to talk about the final phase…

2 months ago

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