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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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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117: Cornering and Descending with Emile Abraham
You might not think of cornering as science—after all, the title of this episode is the art of cornering—but today we’ll try to hit the subjects of cornering and descending from many sides. Obviously, there’s plenty of physics involved in...
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116: Q&A on the art of listening to your body, ...
In today’s episode, we’ve invited Rambleur Rising coach and elite gravel racer Kristen Legan to help answer your many insightful questions. To give you a broader range of coaching opinions, Kristen joins Trevor and me to talk about the art of...
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115: The MTB episode starring Payson McElveen, ...
Today, it’s all about performance off-road. Yes, we’re talking mountain bikes. And we’ve recruited some of the most talented folks in the sport to help us decipher this niche of cycling, from race craft, to technique, to training,...
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114: Q&A on LSD Rides, Topical Bicarbonates, Gr...
On today’s Q&A episode, we cover a broad spectrum of topics including sugar consumption and its health effects, safe rates to increase volume, the pros and cons of group rides, the efficacy of topical bicarbonate products, and much more. Feeling...
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113: The duration and intensity of rest periods...
When Trevor first mentioned he wanted to do an entire episode about rest periods between intervals, I teased him—I often tease him—for being so excited about a seemingly mundane topic. Little did I know we would have such a compelling conversation...
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3: Allen Lim - Cultivating the Environment of C...
Dr. Allen Lim, the founder of Skratch Labs, is today’s esteemed podcast philosopher on Cycling in Alignment with Colby Pearce. With his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, Lim continues to pioneer new practices in sports physiology and applied...
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112: Q&A on HIT training, gut health, recovery,...
Welcome to this Q&A episode of Fast Talk! Today, we’ll address several questions that we received from listeners via email, voicemail, and Twitter. Keep those questions coming! The first question Coach Connor addresses is about interval work and...
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CA 01: Introduction to Cycling in Alignment wit...
Welcome to Cycling in Alignment. I’m your host, Colby Pearce. My passion, dream, and goal is to help people express their highest potential by illuminating a path that enables alignment with truth and coherence in their lives. Ultimately, through...
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111: Busting myths about riding in the heat and...
Ah, here at Fast Talk we love a good myth. More than that, we like busting them. From the age-old myth about sleeping in a room with plants, to the myth of lactic acid, Coach Connor and I enjoy applying science to firmly-held beliefs and turning...
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Introducing Cycling in Alignment with Colby Pearce
Hey Fast Talk listeners. We're proud to introduce the latest podcast addition to the Fast Labs family, a new show dedicated to a holistic approach to cycling. The Cycling in Alignment podcast is the brainchild of Colby Pearce, a U.S. Olympic track...
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110: Off-the-bike workouts for optimal physical...
Getting off our bikes is the last thing most cyclists want to do. That, however, is just what we’re recommending in today’s episode of Fast Talk. Whether for overall health, improving performance and fitness, gaining athleticism, or getting a...
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109: The metabolic cost of your rides—is it the...
Today we have a classic, complex, Coach Connor special. We ask a question not many other physiologists are asking: Is an amateur’s zone 2 ride (in a five-zone model) as physiologically taxing as a pro’s zone 2 ride? To put it another way, if a...
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108: Q and A on TSS, training at altitude; plus...
We’ve received so many great questions about TSS, or Training Stress Score, that we wanted to look at this popular metric from several angles. Most of today’s episode is devoted to those questions; and stay tuned for a future episode where we’ll...
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107: How to race aggressively, with national ro...
Welcome everyone to Fast Talk, your source for the science of cycling performance. I'm your host Chris Case. Today, we take a step away from the science, and talk tactics. When we’ll race again no one really knows. So we thought it would a great...
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