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Ten Minute Tips #58: Why Rest Can Be So Scary

6/16/2025

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Ten Minute Tips #58: Why Rest Can Be So Scary
Taking enough rest can be intimidating if it's unfamiliar territory. Our resident philosophers of rest Rory and Maeghan join to take a deep dive into the most common reasons we see people being scared of sufficient recovery. We include plenty of practical takeaways for what to expect when resting, how much is too much, building new habits, knowing when you can get back into training, what not to do, and more.
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Ten Minute Tips #57: Our Coaches Answer Your Training Questions

6/8/2025

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Ten Minute Tips #57: Our Coaches Answer Your Training Questions
Six of our Empirical Cycling coaches put their heads together to answer your questions on whether mid season breaks will set your fitness back to the dark ages, managing burnout and disappointment, if younger athletes can still overtrain, balancing intensity and volume, work and family stress, being a "good student" as a coached athlete, training habits, and things cyclists put an emphasis on that they shouldn't.
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Ten Minute Tips #56: Resetting Goals and Motivation

5/18/2025

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Ten Minute Tips #56: Resetting Goals And Motivation
​Today we use Rory's recent post event slump to discuss strategies for refocusing and finding motivation again. This is mostly through the lens of goal setting and how to incorporate season planning, fun and unstructured riding, new disciplines, time with friends and family, being flexible, as well as listener questions on realistic goal setting, coping with not meeting goals, training vs racing motivation, and more.
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Perspectives #39: An Unexpected Balance, with James McKay

5/14/2025

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Perspectives #39: An Unexpected Balance, with James McKay
Our very own coach James Mckay sits down to talk about the road to achieving his cycling career goal, a victory at the Lincoln Grand Prix. As this was his last race being coached by Kolie, they take a retrospective look at all the challenges and hard work that went into the last four years of training that made this such an incredible moment: volume, race specific intensity, cramps, heat training, race weight, pressure for results, and the unanticipated way it all came together.
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Ten Minute Tips #55: When To Take A Rest Week, Trusting Subjective Metrics

5/5/2025

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Ten Minute Tips #55: When To Take A Rest Week, Trusting Subjective Metrics
After walking through the general structure and purpose of rest weeks, we break down the decision trees we use to plan rest weeks ahead of time, or what we look for to add them reactively. We also discuss using subjective metrics in rest week planning, plus if and when we wouldn't trust those metrics. Then we answer your listener questions, including mental fatigue, HRV and RHR, skipping rest weeks, accounting for soreness, and more.
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Watts Doc #53: The Origins Of Newbie Gains

4/27/2025

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Watts Doc #53: The Origins Of Newbie Gains
We go deep into a couple papers that measure the relative contributions to early VO2max improvements, and the evidence about whether they're more are muscular or cardiac in nature, and what physiological differences there are with more well trained people. Moderate and high intensity training are contrasted, as well as the obvious shortcuts, plus a first-principles approach to alternative mechanisms. We also answer your listener questions on if you can screw up newbie gains, how much is just mental toughness, and more.

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​Haematological rather than skeletal muscle adaptations contribute to the increase in peak oxygen uptake induced by moderate endurance training
Increased maximal oxygen uptake after sprint-interval training is mediated by central haemodynamic factors as determined by right heart catheterization
Effects of detraining on cardiovascular responses to exercise: role of blood volume
Contribution of oxygen extraction fraction to maximal oxygen uptake in healthy young men
Hemodynamic adaptations to exercise

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Ten Minute Tips #54: The Truth About Junk Miles

4/7/2025

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · The Minute Tips #54: The Truth About Junk Miles
While the definition of a junk mile is still debated, we do our best to come up with a definition, analyze it in relation to training adaptations, and what should be done. We touch on volume, intensity, group rides, mental health, fatigue and security blankets, training camps, recovery, hyper-optimization, and lots more.
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Ten Minute Tips #53: Leveling Up Parenting And Training

3/30/2025

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Ten Minute Tips #53: Leveling Up Parenting And Training
​Our coaches Fabiano and Giancarlo join to discuss the balance between parenting and training, both from a coaching perspective and as parents themselves. We talk about finding vs making time, getting sick, guilt, managing expectations, partner and family support, challenges changing as kids get older, and much more.
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Ten Minute Tips #52: Intermediate Training Mistakes (And Solutions)

3/23/2025

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Ten Minute Tips #52: Intermediate Training Mistakes (And Solutions)
We discuss lists of the most common training mistakes that we see made by cyclists who have done about 2-5 years of structured training. Training focus, rehashing old plans, trying new things, monitoring fitness changes, incorporating fun rides, developing training skills, personalizing your plan, power vs weight, and more, including your listener questions. 
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Watts Doc #52: Hypoxia Inducible Factor's Diminishing Returns

3/10/2025

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Empirical Cycling Podcast · Watts Doc #52: Hypoxia Inducible Factor's Diminishing Returns
Concluding the series on hypoxia inducible factor in skeletal muscle, we go in depth with a paper investigating regulation pathways that blunt HIF's effects in well trained athletes, plus speculate as to whether the Pasteur effect is something worth worrying about while considering other evidence and parallel adaptive pathways. We also ponder some practical takeaways for very well trained endurance athletes as well as for those earlier in their training career.

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Negative regulation of HIF in skeletal muscle of elite endurance athletes: a tentative mechanism promoting oxidative metabolism
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