D-VELO-P cycling training podcast

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they are joined by Sports Tech researcher at Dalarna University and Swedish Royal Institute of Technology Mikael Swarén. Mikael, together with two colleauges researched and wrote the report "När varje steg mäts - Hur påverkas unga idrottare av idrottsteknologi?" (When...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they are doing an After Action Reflection with Erik himself who recently came home from the MTB Marathon World Championships in Italy. ___________________________________________________Erik takes us through the physical and mental states and difficulties during one of the harde...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode we dive deep into a interesting review on altitude and heat training by Carsten Lundby and Paul Robach, called "Altitude or heat training to increase haemoglobin mass and endurance exercise performance in elite sport" Link (Open Access): https://doi.org/10.1113/JP28770...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. Some weeks ago we asked our listeners to if we could review and analyze their training in the pod, and we got a lot of e-mails. In this weeks episode they are diving into a listeners training___________________________________________________Erik and Fredrik are going through Mr. Anonymous training h...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they are diving into a study on sleep during the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes 2022, called: "The Night-Time Sleepand Autonomic Activity of Male and Female Professional Road Cyclists Competing in The Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes" (link: https://d...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they are joined by professional conti team Lucky Sport Cycling Teams rider and Head of Performance Hjalmar Klyver, analyzing and making an After Action Reflection from the teams first ever .2 UCI-race. ___________________________________________________ Hjalmar takes us through...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they talk with massage therapeut and bike fitter Craig Gerber, a South African living in Sweden and woring with professional mountainbike team Cannondale Factory Racing.______________________________________________If you have anyone you would want us to invite to the podcast or...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they talk about the importance of once in a while take a break.___________________________________________________If you have anyone you would want us to invite to the podcast or study or subject you would like to hear about , please leave a comment under this episode. Contact u...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they discuss the phenomenon of Mental Taper, which could be the difference between the Winner's versus Loosers game. ___________________________________________________ Every competitive cyclist understands physical tapering: you log the miles, build your engine, and then re...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they talk with Sam Kaestner, an recreational cyclist and engineer who built the AI platform Enzo.bike We talk about what AI in coaching is, where it's place is now and in the future. Sam describes the difference between normal LLM (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini etc with specific A...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they talk about a relevant Open Access study now in Tour d France days, and that is: - Role-Specific Performance Profiles of Professional Cyclists in a Grand Tour (Sánchez-Jiménez et al, 2026). Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejsc.70170 If you have anyone...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they talk with Norwegian sport scientist and researcher Bent Rønnestad. We talk about his three roles as a researcher, a father of two high performing athlete children and his role as a coach. Thank you Bent for this conversation. If you have anyone you would want us to invite t...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they talk about a new study on how you can improve red blood cell volume while sleeping. It is an interesting study with a lot of pros and cons, which we discuss. You can read the whole 3 page study here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13173307/ Listen and enjoy, pleas...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they talk Daniel Kahneman's Prospect Theory, and how that might me useful in cycling. Listen and enjoy, please leave a thumbs up and feedback in the comments to make our pod even better. Contact us: info@d-velo-p.me Subscribe to our newsletter: www.d-velo-p.me Follow us on s...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they talk about a study called: Physiological Resilience: What Is It and How Might It Be Trained? You can find the study here (Open Access): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sms.70032 Contact us: info@d-velo-p.meSubscribe to our newsletter: www.d-velo-p.meFollow...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they discover a different topic than usual. They are companied by P.L and Kristen Meindertsma, who are riding bikes for 5 charities with the goal of 2,500 000$ over 5 years cycling trough 5 continents. This week they start their journey trough Africa for their fourth ride. It is...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they talk with Kristen Arnold, a sports nutritionist working with World Tour Teams EF Education-Oatly and EF Education-Easypost. It became a great conversation about sports nutrition, macros and micros, how working with world tour athletes is compared to recreational athletes an...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they are explaining the principle of Amara's Law. We talk about what the Amara's Law is, why it is important and give some example in different areas in the sport of cycling. Listen and enjoy! Do you have any tips or suggestions about topics or guests? Comment here or se...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they are joined by none other than the Head of Nutrition at the nutrition company Maurten: Tobias Christensson. We talk about how to coach nutrition to individuals with different cultures and sports, why the bicarb system is the 1 % for the 1 %, how their hydrogel technology wor...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they talk with U23 XCO World Cup rider Leo Lounela about his races in the South Korea UCI MTB XCO World Cup. We do a After Action Review (AAR) together with Leo to go through the plans before, during and the learnings after the cross country short track (XCC) and cross country o...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode we are joined by professional MTB Marathon rider Lejla Njemčevič from Bosnia & Hercegovina. We discuss Lejlas journey from the recently ended war in Bosnia growing up, getting into sports late through a desire to see the mountains and her quite special and successful relationshi...

D-VELO-P’s dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode we are joined by Martin Kumm, a professional physio and chiropractor in World Tour Squads EF Education-Easypost and EF Education-Oatly. Martin gives us insights in how the work in World Tour differs from coaching recreational athletes, the importance of communication, his philosophy...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode they talk about Erik's recently performed Sweat and Sodium concentration test, and dive into the result and analyze it. They also talk about the importance of Sodium in endurance training and racing and why it can be a hidden performance killer. The test were performed at AUSTROSWED...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode we discuss a narrative review from Patrick B. Wilson: A Narrative Review of the High-Carbohydrate Fueling Revolution (> 100g/h) in the Professional Peloton. Link to the study (open access): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-025-02372-6 We discuss about RED-S wh...

D-VELO-P's dorky coaching duo Erik and Fredrik discussing cycling training and related topics. In this weeks episode we discuss the meaning of the acronym F-O-N-E-Y. F-O-N-E-Y stands for Fear Of Not Enough Yield . It is the internal (and sometimes external) pressure to keep doing more, even when "more" is physiologically useless—or worse, harmful. In a world dominated by Strava and s...