Fast Talk
The Fast Talk podcast offers the best guides to cycling performance and endurance sports training from world-class experts.Cohosted by cycling coaches and sport scientists Trevor Connor and Rob Pickels, Fast Talk episodes feature fascinating conversations with world-class experts discussing the endurance sports topics they know best: the best ways to train, effective workouts, questions on polarized and interval training, sports nutrition, physiology and recovery, and sport psychology.Fast Talk...
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79: Playing the Energy Game with Colby Pearce
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78: The demands of the Tour de France with Ciaran O'Grady
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77: Avoiding the big mistakes even pros make, with Dr. Andy Pruitt and Frankie A...
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76: When to push and when to pull the plug, with Kate Courtney and Whoop
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75: High intensity training, with Dr. Stephen Seiler
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74: Why women are not small men, with Dr. Stacy Sims
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73: How to balance your VLamax, with Sebastian Weber
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72: Do we need training zones? With Dr. Andy Coggan, Dr. Stephen McGregor, and H...
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71: How to train for and race gran fondo-style events, with Colby Pearce
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70: Finding your strengths through failure, with Armando Mastracci
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69: Functional training with Menachem Brodie
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68: The big picture — the three types of rides you should do
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67: What is VLamax? With Sebastian Weber
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66: Demystifying periodization with Joe Friel
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65: Debunking supplements — what works, and what doesn’t?
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64: Inside the Canadian team’s world championship success, with Mike Woods and R...
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63: Training gift ideas with Colby Pearce and Frank Overton
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62: Listener questions on short rides, diet, vegetable oils, and training sub-th...
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61: Do you need a coach? With Neal Henderson and Rebecca Rusch
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60: Rethinking the science of trainers
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59: Preventing cycling’s most common injuries, with Dr. Andy Pruitt
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58: Inside Colby Pearce’s world record hour attempt
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57: Trail, rake, and flop — bike design with Lennard Zinn
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56: The Hour with Colby Pearce
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55: How to win with mind power
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54: Applying the polarized training model, with Dr. Seiler
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53: From collegiate racing to the WorldTour in three years, with Sepp Kuss
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52: Enhancing Your Recovery With Normatec
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51: Polarizing your training, with Dr. Stephen Seiler
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50: Unpacking the gospel of Joe Friel’s new ‘Training Bible’
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49: Training, fueling, and suffering at Dirty Kanza 200
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48: Race tactics and training with Rally’s Huffman and McCarty, part 2
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47: The art and science of peaking, with Colby Pearce
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46: Inside ketogenic and high-fat diets
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45: The art of recovery — how to balance training and rest with metrics
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44: The data revolution — how A.I. and machine learning will make you faster
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43: Race tactics and training with Rally’s Huffman and McCarty, part 1
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42: The power training revolution, with Hunter Allen
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41: We answer your questions about training
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40: Too much of a good thing? Heart arrhythmias in endurance athletes
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39: The Secrets to Staying Strong as You Age with Ned Overend
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38: Why fatigue may be all in your mind
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37: Nutrition — sugar, wheat, paleo, and performance
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36: Inside the new science of climbing
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35: How to Train In the Cold
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34: Become a climber (even if you live in a flat place)
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33: Is FTP dead?
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32: A cyclist’s guide to the weight room
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31: How to avoid illness (or just cope with it)
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30: Myth Busters: Why we can’t talk about lactic acid
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