444: How to Optimize the Indoor Training and Racing Experience

Two leading experts help us understand the complexities of RED-S, its causes and symptoms, and explain the challenges of diagnosis and treatment strategies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week’s potluck episode, we discuss what Halloween candy to take on rides, weight training strategies through the year, and how to stave off sickness.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We dive into the pros and cons of GLP-1s and the science on their use with athletes, then we discuss a new Bent Rønnestad study on the effects of five consecutive days of HIT sessions.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our team discusses peptides, “healthmaxxing,” supplements, and social media influencers, by addressing what the actual science is behind these social trends.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite popular belief, the ability to continue to push yourself is trainable—it isn’t simply a matter of grit. We discuss the science of willpower, its mechanisms, and how you can better cultivate this psychological superpower. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We discuss how to create an efficient indoor training environment that will enhance your experience with two veterans of virtual racing and riding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grand Tour contenders are younger than they’ve been at almost any point in history. Are we just finally getting it right, or is this an anomaly? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our potluck discussion covers a wide range of topics, from whether it’s better to really focus on your weaknesses in training or build the best engine, the benefits of zone 2 intervals, what you could gain from dabbling in cyclocross, and the many methods and benefits for base training. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First as an elite runner and now as a physiologist, Siren Seiler has been intrigued by “double threshold” training. Today we discuss the results of her master’s thesis: “Physiological and perceptual stress responses to repeated single‑ and double‑threshold interval training.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First, we delve into a new study that points to several types of remodeling as potential causation of AFib. Then we look at elite Norwegian coaching practices around strength and speed training.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices