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Perspectives #13: Overtraining Sucks, with Katie Aman

5/10/2022

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Perspectives #13: Overtraining Sucks, with Katie Aman
Coach Katie goes in depth with her overtraining history in both cycling and swimming. We discuss the various causes like intensity, nutrition, and sleep, and the associated symptoms, along with her recovery each time, and how this experience helps in her coaching. The episode concludes with some tips to help recognize and avoid overtraining, along with listener questions.​

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Ruth Winder’s National Championships Win Almost Didn’t Happen
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Perspectives #12: A Deep Dive Into Ride Food, with Namrita Brooke

4/27/2022

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Perspectives #12: A Deep Dive Into Ride Food, with Namrita Brooke
 This discussion with Namrita (PhD, RDN) centers on ride food questions like how much, when, how to adjust for early rides, races, and if protein and fat is necessary. Additional side quests include the glucose-fructose ratio, how important ride food is in the context of the day, gastric emptying rate, the effects of caffeine, solid vs liquid food, and many others.

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namritabrooke@gmail.com
Namrita's Instagram
Inside Sports Nutrition

Caffeine Ingestion With or Without Low-Dose Carbohydrate Improves Exercise Tolerance in Sedentary Adults
13C-glucose-fructose labelling reveals comparable exogenous CHO oxidation during exercise when consuming 120 g/h in fluid, gel, jelly chew or co-ingestion
Feeding Tolerance, Glucose Availability, and Whole-Body Total Carbohydrate and Fat Oxidation in Male Endurance and Ultra-Endurance Runners in Response to Prolonged Exercise, Consuming a Habitual Mixed Macronutrient Diet and Carbohydrate Feeding During Exercise
Effects of supplementing with an 18% carbohydrate-hydrogel drink versus a placebo during whole-body exercise in −5 °C with elite cross-country ski athletes: a crossover study

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Ten Minute Tips #19: FTP Testing Shortcuts

4/20/2022

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Ten Minute Tips #19: FTP Testing Shortcuts
​Kolie and Kyle discuss the mental and physical aspects of going into an FTP test and add some perspective on nerves, rest, and softening blows to the ego. Then three alternative RPE or data based, submaximal methods are discussed. We also touch on tests that go too well and how to adjust to realistic numbers for training, and why it's better to be consistent than play whack-a-mole with occasional good days.
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Perspectives #11: The Best Workout Is Not Working Out, with Adam Pulford

4/5/2022

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Perspectives #11: The Best Workout Is Not Working Out, with Adam Pulford
CTS coach Adam Pulford shares his thoughts on the ins and outs of recovery and how crucial it is. Topics including signs you need a rest week, how often you should take one, rest week structure, if sprints are okay during a recovery day, and the benefits of apple picking.

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Adam's Instagram
Adam's CTS Bio

CTS Instagram
CTS Podcast
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NASA Physicist Reveals String Theory SECRET to UNLOCKING Your Cycling Performance

3/31/2022

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · NASA Physicist Reveals String Theory SECRET to UNLOCKING Your Cycling Performance
In this ground-breaking, tell-all episode, Kolie needles Kyle before he pulls at a thread, and Kyle's yarn untangles the skein of reality and explains how you can use the underlying fabric of the universe to bring your cycling performance to the next level.

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Perspectives #10: A Guide To Time Trialing, with Cory Lockwood

3/27/2022

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Perspectives #10: A Guide To Time Trialing, with Cory Lockwood
Former national time trial champion Cory Lockwood fields questions from Kolie and podcast listeners about the ins and outs of time trialing, including his #1 tip for time trialists of all levels. We cover pacing, gearing and equipment selection, and mental focus. Plus we talk about how Cory's current training is going, fueling for big workout days, the team behind a big performance, and the unexpected usefulness of mirrors and plastic wrap. ​All while his cats try to steal mic time.
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Watts Doc #37: Your Fast Twitch Fibers Probably As Aerobic As Your Slow Twitch

3/17/2022

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Watts Doc #37: Your Fast Twitch Fibers Probably As Aerobic As Your Slow Twitch
Does your training zone determine the fiber type used? Does fiber type determine aerobic or anaerobic pathways, carbs or fats? We answer these questions by looking at evidence and concepts that show that fast twitch fibers can be just as aerobically capable as slow twitch fibers, nearly as good at burning fats, and why that might be. We dissect a paper on elite cross-country skiers, and another paper on whether or not fast twitch fibers had been recruited at relatively low intensity. In-depth discussion follows on fiber type distribution, muscle mass recruitment and force availability, why endurance athletes defy the expected metabolic properties of fast twitch fibers, and why these expectations may have started with cats.
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XC Skiers paper
The Muscle Fiber Profiles, Mitochondrial Content, and Enzyme Activities of the Exceptionally Well-Trained Arm and Leg Muscles of Elite Cross-Country Skiers

Ramp test muscle recruitment paper
Progressive metabolite changes in individual human muscle fibers with increasing work rates
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Figure 2 from XC ski paper, showing HAD and CS activity of arm and leg muscle samples against MHC1 proportion in those samples.
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Figure showing metabolite changes at rest and after ramp test stages to 2 below LT (t2), 3 above LT (t3), and to exhaustion (t4).
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Watts Doc #36: How Power Meters Make Lactate Testing Nearly Obsolete

3/4/2022

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Watts Doc #36: How Power Meters Make Lactate Testing Nearly Obsolete
Kolie makes his case that power meters are rendering lactate testing obsolete for most cyclists. After some background about lactate and why lactate testing was (and still is) historically crucial for science, we compare lactate test values in ramp and MLSS tests between individuals from an excellent but under-appreciated study. We also dig deep into more recent data, from the lactate test of a former world champion and Kolie's own surprising MLSS test, and the physiology explaining these results. We conclude with practical considerations about what threshold means, and why power meters are our best way to measure it.

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Justification of the 4mmol/L lactate threshold
Lactate kinetics in human tissues at rest and during exercise (contains figure from episode cover art)
The maximal metabolic steady state: redefining the 'gold standard'
Alterations of the lactic acid content of the blood as a result of light exercise, and associated changes in the CO2 -combining power of the blood and in the alveolar CO2 pressure (Owles paper)
​Lactate kinetics and individual anaerobic threshold
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Figure from cover art and above-linked paper: Lactate kinetics in human tissues at rest and during exercise"
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World Champion lactate curve during step test with 3 minute step durations.
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Perspectives #9: Pragmatic Physiology and Nutrition, with Tim Podlogar

2/21/2022

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Perspectives #9: Pragmatic Physiology and Nutrition, with Tim Podlogar
Tim Podlogar, nutritionist for Bora-Hansgrohe and research fellow at the University of Birmingham, joins Kolie for a conversation. Just a few of the topics covered are what makes Slovenian riders so good, what lab tests are useful and for whom, low-carb rides, and why substrate use is not adaptation. Nutrition topics include fructose, "fat loading," the role of supplements like creatine, bicarbonate, and beta-alanine. Also discussed are things like responsibility for our media's influence, and the pressures, dangers, and nuances of MDPI and scientific publication.

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Tim's Instagram
Tim's Twitter
Tim's publications
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Perspectives #8: Why It's Hard To Rest, with Patrick Smith

2/15/2022

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Perspectives #8: Why It's Hard To Rest, with Patrick Rest
This fantastic and nuanced conversation starts with discussing why it can be so hard to rest, but went into much deeper territory with changing one's behavior to better move towards goals. We explore ideas like a coach's job to moderate athlete responses to cultural and social pressure, managing the firehose of data, and the definition of insanity. Also touched on are practical ideas for self-coached athletes, such as leaving workout comments for yourself or daily journaling.

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coachpatricksmith.com
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