10 Performance Tips for Masters Athletes to Slow the Effects of Aging
Coach Trevor Connor outlines how coaches and masters athletes can better address the physiology and psychology of aging in their training.
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Maintaining Performance with Age
In this video, Joe Friel highlights three key factors for coaches to focus on to ensure their aging athletes remain fit and well.
Diving Deep into the Pain Cave
What is pain—and how can we learn to tolerate it in training and racing? We find out on our latest Fast Talk podcast where we’re joined by neuroscientist Dr. Scott Frey.
Why Is It So Hard to Go Easy?
You know your workout is supposed to be easy, but you just can’t help dropping the hammer sometimes. A leading neuroscientist lifts the lid on what’s going on in your brain when this happens—and what you can do about it.
Workout of the Week: High-Torque Hill Repeats
Get your fast-twitch muscles working harder for you with this two-part bike workout.
Are You Ready for Race Season?
In this week’s episode, our hosts talk about the best work to do leading into the race season, getting meditative during intervals, and preparing for an epic event.
Fast Talk Femmes Podcast: Training During Pregnancy—with Catherine Cram
There’s an abundance of myths about training while pregnant and postpartum return to activity. Catherine Cram is an expert in the field who helps separate fact from fiction with the latest research and knowledge.
Planning Your Week From A Polarized Training Perspective
So you want to give the polarized training approach a go? Here’s how to map out your week using the 80/20 training model.
How to Get Started with Polarized Training
You might have heard of polarized training, but do you know how to implement it in your training? We’re here to help you get started.
Race Stress, Threshold Work, and Dealing with Health Setbacks
In this week’s show, we talk about how we deal with the stress of competition, whether threshold intervals are old news, and the mental side of dealing with health setbacks.
Recent Research on Junior Athletes
We review some of the key findings in recent research on junior athlete development.
Understanding Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S)—with Dr. Emily Kraus
In this episode of Fast Talk Femmes, we learn more about RED-S, its effects on female endurance athletes, and ways to prevent it.
How to Develop Younger Athletes
As head coach of one of the nation’s largest junior cycling teams, Pete Webber shifted his program from selection to athlete development.
Workout of the Week: The Big Stupid Ride
This week’s Workout of the Week is a different one—it’s big, it’s stupid. The adventurers among you will love it.
How to Stay Fit and Fast As You Age
Getting older doesn’t have to equate to getting slower. We chat with two world champion athletes who share their secrets of success when it comes to slowing the aging process.
The House and the Storm—a Metaphor for Training
We max out on metaphors in this week’s Fast Talk podcast as we talk about some of the key principles behind training, recovery, and fueling.
Time at VO2max: An Important Metric You Probably Haven’t Heard Of
Time at VO2max is driving the recent research on what makes the most effective intervals, but is it a good metric to use? We find out on this week’s Fast Talk podcast.
Fast Talk Labs Q&A #1
We get asked a lot of great—and nerdy—questions via our Fast Talk Labs Forum. Every month we’ll now be taking the best questions and publishing our answers. This month, our in-house physiologist Rob Pickels tackles the topics of altitude training and the impact of body composition on hypothermia.