Q&A on Cross Training, Workout Complexity, and Pre-Race Nutrition
Ryan and Trevor tackle questions on how running can be used in the base season, recovery for time-crunched athletes, the complexity of workouts, pre-race meal planning, and much more.
Subtopic Filter
- Aerobic Threshold
- Altitude Training
- Anaerobic Capacity
- Base Training
- Bike Fit
- Bikepacking
- Biomarkers
- Cadence
- Cardiovascular Drift
- Climbing
- Concussion
- COVID-19
- Cramping
- Cyclocross
- Detraining
- Development
- Endurance Coaching
- Endurance Performance Data Analysis
- Endurance Training
- Environmental Physiology
- Exercise in Cold Weather
- Exercise in the Heat
- Fast Talk Labs Q&A
- Fasted Training
- Fatigue
- Female Athletes
- Functional Threshold Power
- Gear and Tech
- Goal Setting
- Gravel Cycling
- Heart Rate
- HIT
- Hydration
- Indoor Cycling
- Injury
- Injury Prevention
- INSCYD
- Interval Workouts
- Knee Pain
- Lactate
- Long Slow Distance
- Manual Therapy
- Mental Toughness
- Mountain Biking
- Norwegian Method
- Nutrition Strategies
- Olympics
- Overreaching and Overtraining
- Pacing
- Pain
- Peaking
- Pedaling
- Planning Your Season
- Polarized Training
- Power
- Pro Athletes
- Profile
- Race Planning and Preparation
- Race Tactics
- Recovery
- Recovery Techniques
- Respiration
- Running
- Skiing
- Skills and Technique
- Speed
- Sport Psychology & Mental Training
- Sports Medicine
- Sports Nutrition
- Strength Training
- Stretching
- Supplements
- Swim
- Technique
- Testing
- Threshold
- Track Cycling
- Trail Running
- Training Concepts
- Training Zones
- Training-Life Balance
- Triathlon
- Ultra Running
- Ultra-cycling
- VLamax
- VO2max
- Whoop
- Workout of the Week
- Workouts
- Youth Development
- Zwift
All
Sweetening the Truth on Hydration
Few topics in endurance sports are more misunderstood and draw more ire than hydration and electrolyte sports drinks. Trevor Connor explores the biochemical mechanics to show what happens when we drink salty sports drinks.
Structured Workout: Pre-Race Warm-Up
Coaches Trevor Connor and Ryan Kohler discuss the science of a pre-race warm-up routine and demonstrate how Trevor prepares for time trials.
How to Analyze the Power Duration Curve
Coaches Trevor Connor and Ryan Kohler analyze the Power Duration Curve in order to illustrate how you can train fatiguability.
Wprime, Critical Power, 6-minute Power, and Variable Intensity Races
In this video, Dr. Seiler thinks out loud—with math—to explore how critical power and variable intensity races might connect in practice.
Core Exercise: Reverse Tabletop
This core exercise is part of a series of core workouts offering a multi-planar approach to core integrity.
Single-Leg Romanian Deadlift
Learning how to use the lower body appropriately is crucial for a number of high-performance bike skills. The single-leg RDL helps develop balance and power.
Bilateral and Unilateral Leg Curls
Learning how to use the lower body appropriately is crucial for a number of high-performance bike skills. The leg curl will help with general strength off the bike.
Reverse Slide Lunge
Learning how to use the lower body appropriately is crucial for a number of high-performance bike skills. The reverse slide lunge will help develop control and power.
The Myth of Cramping
Dehydration? Electrolyte imbalance? Heat? None of these actually causes cramping, according to new theories. Coach Trevor Connor takes a closer look.
The North Star: Setting Goals to Give You Direction, with Will Murray
Coach and author Will Murray joins Coach Ryan Kohler for a discussion of what makes a useful set of goals, how to develop them, the psychology of goals, and much more.
Structured Workout: 40/20 “On/Off” Intervals
These “on/off” style intervals will help you push top-end power and cardiovascular adaptations.
Indoor Cycling and Heat Management with Dr. Stephen Cheung
Dr. Cheung offers several tips to improve indoor cycling conditions to minimize any environmental impact. Hint: Airflow changes everything!
How to Create a Race-Day Sports Nutrition Plan, Part 3
Coaches Ryan Kohler and Trevor Connor discuss how to write out your nutrition plan, how to determine what nutrition will be available at aid stations, estimating nutrition needs between aid stations, and much more.
Polarized Training—”Ordinary Workouts Done Extraordinarily Well”—with Dr. Stephen Seiler and Trevor Connor
Dr. Stephen Seiler and Trevor Connor discuss polarized training, intensity distribution, and endurance in this webinar with CKO Sprint.
How to Improve Maximal Force Production on the Bike
Coach Ryan Kohler demonstrates ways to train maximal force production, or torque, on the bike.
How to Track the Long-Term Relationship Between Heart Rate and Power
Coach Ryan Kohler reviews season-to-season changes in heart rate/power distributions to illustrate improvements across the different energy systems.
How to Manage Heat During Indoor Workouts
Training inside is hot! Here are some facts and tips on beating the heat indoors.