Fast Talk Podcast

Chris Case took a second crack at the grueling ultra-endurance gravel race, DK 200, a 200-plus mile gravel race across the Flint Hills of Kansas with the coaching assistance of Trevor Connor. The challenge of turning Chris into an endurance rider focusing on everything from race strategy, pacing, hydration, and fueling.

We’re sprinting into part two in our series on race strategy and training; today is all about hilly road races. Prepare your mind and body for the vast range of elements in a stage race, including the crit, time trial, and road race.

In today’s episode, learn the exercise science behind peaking for your racing season — including how long it takes, why we do a fatigue block to start the peak and the science of what happens physiologically to produce the peak. Tapering your training is tricky so we’ll review some of the more common mistakes that you can run into.

We are discussing research about ketogenic diets and sports performance. Studies have come out concluding contradictory things about the effects, benefits and risks. Researchers have strong opinions on both sides. Will going keto make you faster?

Dr. Paul Gastin, Brent Brookwalter, Mac Cassin, Frank Overton, and Armando Mastracci join us to talk about the most important part of training: recovery.

Tim Cusick joins us to talk all about data and the data revolution we are experiencing.

In the first part of our two part series with Rally Huffman we take a deep dive into race strategy and tactics, and the necessary skills and training you need to excel at bike racing.

We speak with Hunter Allen and Dr. Andy Coggan, pioneers of the use of power meters in cycling.

Trevor and Chris field listener questions on importance of aerobic threshold, FTP, muscle soreness, and training in extreme cold.

We talk about a subject that Chris Case knows well, and that our guest, Lennard Zinn, has lived for the last five years: Heart arrhythmias in endurance athletes.

Maintaining strong training on the bike while aging isn’t as difficult as it may seem, as guest MTB champion Ned Overend illustrates.
We will delineate what age effects truly exist — for example, a drop in maximum heart rate — and others that have been traditionally attributed to aging that now appear to be trainable, such as a loss in fast-twitch muscle fiber strength.

There are many different physiological causes of fatigue, but how much of fatigue is really in our minds?

We discuss what we think is healthy and what foods to eat and skip. We take on the topics of wheat, nutrient density, and sugar.

We turned ourselves into mad scientists and rode several time trials up Boulder climbs with Sepp Kuss to learn the new science of climbing.

We explore the physiological effects of training in the cold, from muscle damage to the increased caloric demands and how to stay warm.

We tackle the always-popular topic of climbing with Sepp Kuss, Dr. Inigo San Millan, Joe Dombrowski, and Ned Overend.

We take on a controversial subject: FTP or functional threshold power. Is FTP dead?

Cyclists can get a little lost in the weight room. Strength expert Jess Elliott helps us understand the fundamentals of strength workouts and how cyclists will benefit from time spent in the gym.