How To Become A Pro Cyclist with Jack Burke

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.