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 guests and regular contributors include Dr. Stephen Seiler, Joe Friel, Dr. Asker Jeukendrup, Sebastian Weber, Jim Miller, Dr. Andy Pruitt, Dr. Timothy Noakes, and elite professional athletes like Kristin Armstrong, Sepp Kuss, Brent Bookwalter, Kate Courtney, and many more.

Fast Talk is part of Fast Talk Laboratories, a new endurance sports knowledgebase for endurance racers and adventurers.

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139: A New Coaching Model: Creating Better Athl...
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138: Q&A on Training Without Power, Optimizing ...
59 min
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137: An Introduction to Ultra-Cycling, Bikepack...
101 min
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136: Q&A on crank length, power imbalance, inju...
48 min
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135: The Importance of Sleep, Monitoring Device...
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134: Favorite Workouts of Fast Talk All-Stars
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133: Mastering indoor cycling, with Joe Friel, ...
95 min
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132: How to set Strava PRs, with The Pro’s Clos...
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131: Balancing science and experience in your t...
91 min
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CA 19: How to Pedal a Bike, with Colby Pearce a...
121 min
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130: The science of breathing, with Dr. James H...
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129: Q&A on weight loss and metabolism, MTB des...
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128: Roundtable on coaching beginner athletes v...
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127: Overreaching, overtraining, and burnout w...
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126: Q&A on fatigue, peaking, returning from in...
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125: Put it in the big gear—we explore low-cade...
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124: How to map out your season, with Toms Skuj...
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123: Performance gains and adaptations from fas...
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122: Mission impossible: determining your true ...
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121: Should you build the best engine or focus ...
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120: Q&A on FTP testing, structuring recovery ...
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BONUS: Anatomy of a Good Cycling Shoe, Cycling ...
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119: How to use data to make better training de...
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118: Q&A on sweat rates, going polarized for ’c...
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CA 07: Jonathan Vaughters, CEO of EF Education ...
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