The Waite Endurance Podcast

This week we cover all the necessities for setting up your ‘pain cave’ for the coming Trainer Season . Fall has arrived in the northern hemisphere and that means for many that trainer time is around the corner. Don’t wait until last minute to get your gear sorted; instead optimize your pain cave now in order to maximize your performance later. Everything from Smart vs. Dumb train...

In this week’s episode we talk travel and working your training around work travel; trainer sessions and why they are so beneficial (even if your climate doesn’t ‘require’ it); and the concept of Nutrition Periodization for endurance sport performance. You likely periodize your training (think: base, build, peak)… you should also consider periodizing your diet to foll...

It’s the end of the 2019 training & racing season (for most riders, except cyclocross), and it’s time for reflection! This week we discuss the importance of a Season Review . We sit down and run through some topics you might think about in terms of “what went well” and “what didn’t go so well” for you within your last season’s training & raci...

This week we dig in to the basic understandings of using your Training Peaks as a training calendar & log, and the important of TSS within our Base Builder Program. It’s important to be collecting your data correctly now so you have data to work with in the coming months to plan your season and get more “geeky” with it in future episodes. Before that we touch on the start of...

In this week’s episode we begin with some praises for the NICA high school mountain bike league as they begin their fall season of racing here in Colorado and other states around the country (and give kudos to our WE Devo riders that are experiencing the gains they’ve made from their 2019 training efforts!). Then we discuss the BIG benefits that come from riding slowly at low heart rat...

In this episode we discuss the importance of taking a break from the bike between ‘seasons’, and the benefits of strength training for the endurance athlete. We also dig into the details of our Base Builder Strength Program and getting started building your strength base. —————————————————————————————————————————- Join us for our 15th Annual Base Builder Program , beginning August 26th...

In this episode we begin by giving kudos to a handful of our S:6 athletes that participated in the 2019 Leadville 100 MTB race before providing a ‘10,000 foot’ view of our 15th Annual Base Builder Program that kicks off next week. We cover the broad concepts of our base training philosophy from the “on-bike” aerobic training, the “off-bike” strength training, ho...

As preparation for the launch of our 15th annual Base Builder Training Program, Episodes 2 & 3 provide insights into our training philosophy and explain our Six Components of Performance (where the “6” in Sessions:6 comes from)… Part 2 of this two-part episode picks up where Episode 2 left off, covering the “off-bike” or “in between training sessions” components of performance 4, 5 & 6: Di...

As preparation for the launch of our 15th annual Base Builder Training Program, Episodes 2 & 3 provide insights into our training philosophy and explain our Six Components of Performance (where the “6” in Sessions:6 comes from)… Part one of this two-part episode focuses in-depth on components 1, 2, & 3: the “on-bike” or “physical training” componen...

In episode 1, Cody & Kathy provide a bit of their own history on how they got involved in endurance sport, some of their coaching backgrounds, and a bit on the intention of the Sessions:6, powered by Waite Endurance podcast. The intended listeners are the athletes following their 14-year proven “Base Builder” training program, but they also hope to be able to share training concepts & insi...