Fast Talk

There’s an important difference between fueling for performance and fueling for health. In today’s episode, Dr. Mikki Williden and Dr. Paul Laursen give us their suggestions on how to fuel for health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Our host regulars discuss when an unplanned activity—such as commuting—becomes training, how to adjust for an event when returning from injury, and what training to do in the off season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Seiler explains what we can and can’t take from the Ingebrigtsen brothers and from the Norwegian approach to training in general. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Brendan Egan joins our hosts to explain what happens in our muscles after a hard training session that causes us to get stronger and faster.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our hosts talk with Jared Berg about the nutrition needs of development athletes and whether they should eat differently from their adult counterparts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We discuss a host of questions, from how to get a little more out of your form in autumn, to fueling needs for short races like cyclocross, and why so many female athletes seem to excel when entering sports later in life.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk with Dr. Scott Frey and Tour commentator Brent Bookwalter about how our brains perceive effort and ways we can manipulate that perception to go harder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Edward Coyle was a pioneer in figuring out how endurance athletes adapt and defining what attributes—such as efficiency and fuel utilization—are most important to perform at the highest levels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We do the bulk of our training in zones 1 and 2, so this episode will explain how to define them and—more importantly—how to best train them.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many started young, others turned their passion into their profession, and some used it to get healthy. Learn from the experiences of multiple athletes and coaches on how they entered—and stayed in—endurance sports no matter what life threw their way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today’s episode, we switch our cycling shoes for running shoes and discuss how runners can accurately measure and pace their training.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week’s potluck, we discuss if lighter means you always perform better, how to change things up if you’re not feeling that day’s workout, and what key tips we have to be better coaches or athletes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nothing has been researched more than high-intensity interval training. We talk with Dr. Seiler about what the science really says and how to apply it to our own training.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Athlete, coach, and nutritionist Stephanie Howe explains how ultra-athletes can optimize performance through evidence-based nutrition practices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our hosts bring their questions on working out at the end of a long day, how to manage when training races are too easy, and if base ride intensities should be varied. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’ve all seen on TV how hard the Tour de France is, but what does it take for these riders to push themselves so far day after day?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally titled “Stop Your Legs from Fighting (Themselves),” we look back at episode 8 to see how our views—and the science—has changed regarding neuromuscular work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When does an innovation in speed cross the line of fair competition or safety? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lennard Zinn shares his decades of experience to help cyclists of all levels navigate what gear they do and don’t need when starting a new cycling discipline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blood tests can help tell whether an athlete is overtrained or performing at their best, but is it a good idea for athletes to do regular testing? We discuss with Dr. Lauren Rudolph. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk with TrainingPeaks founder Dirk Friel about how athletes, coaches, and training software now focus on the whole athlete instead of only training plans.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talk with National Cyclocross Champion Eric Brunner about how to best give and receive feedback—not only in sports, but all aspects of life.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this potluck we discuss what to do when you’re struggling to hang on to a wheel, what the overall goal of training should be, and how to handle needing to poop during a long running event.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s a given that after a race or workout you do a cooldown—but is there any evidence this actually helps? The science may say otherwise.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices