The Fundamentals of Sports Nutrition: How to Use Intuition to Improve Fueling
Data has its benefits, but only when we learn to apply an intuitive approach to our fueling can we unlock the most efficient and healthy sports nutrition habits.
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Women Are Not Small Men—and Here’s the Research to Prove It
In this research digest Dr. Stacy Sims highlights some of the most pertinent female-specific research that every coach needs to know.
How to Coach Mom-Athletes with Empathy and Understanding
Being a mom and an athlete can require world-class juggling and coping skills. As a coach, how can you best support and empower these athletes? We find out from Coach Alison Freeman (who’s also a Mom-Athlete).
A Male Coach’s Guide to Understanding the Unique Needs of Female Athletes
It can be difficult for male coaches to know their role in helping female athletes navigate performance in context of the menstrual cycle and hormones. Coach Bevan McKinnon shares his experience and learning on this topic and some helpful tools.
How the Menstrual Cycle Can Work to the Athlete’s Advantage
If an athlete is regularly tracking their menstrual cycle, it serves as a key performance indicator for adaptation and performance.
Workout of the Week: Acceleration Intervals
Rev your legs with this versatile bike workout.
Changing the Conversation from Weight Loss to Performance
The misconception that “lighter is better” has undermined endurance athletes of all genders, but a shocking number of female athletes have been emotionally and physiologically destroyed by weigh-ins and negative body talk. Coaches can learn how to best navigate conversations on this topic with these simple guidelines.
How to Get Better Year After Year As an Ultra-Endurance Athlete
If you’re looking to tackle some ultra-endurance events it’s important to take a longer-term approach to your training that extends beyond a single season. We explain how and why.
Workout of the Week: Cool Your Jets
This short HIIT session can be used by cyclists or runners to work on power without putting too much stress on the body.
Workout of the Week: Bikepacking Pre-Race Shakedown
Make sure you’re fully prepared for your next (or first) bikepacking adventure with this workout with a difference.
The Interplay of Body, Brain, and Mind
Learn the importance of working on your body first to effect change in your brain and mind.
Workout of the Week: Hitting the Afterburners
Learn how to “sit in your burn” for longer with this mix of variable and steady efforts.
Discomfort Can Be Good for You—Here’s Why.
Measured doses of discomfort can yield improvements to self-awareness, motivation, and resilience.
Workout of the Week: Neal Henderson’s Pyramid of Power
The Head Coach for Wahoo Fitness has devised a new race-specific workout you can crank out on the trainer or the road.
How Hormones Conspire to Store Fat
As athletes get older, hormone levels shift, disrupting how the body manages glucose and insulin and inviting a slow creep of excess weight.
What Masters Athletes Need to Know About Insulin Resistance
Today’s athletes need to discern whether changes in body composition are just part of getting older or if the body is becoming intolerant of carbohydrate.
Workout of the Week: “Icing on the Cake” Over-Unders
Dial in your race form by incorporating these over-under intervals into your training.
The Upside of Growing Old
The OG of endurance sports coaching shares how bike racing and life have changed since he turned 70—and what you have to look forward to.
Workout of the Week: Build Me Up Trainer Ride
Boost your aerobic endurance with this simple bike workout.