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  • Ten Minute Tips #83: Making Unstructured Training Effective

    October 11, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

    This episode details our approach in coaching high quality training that isn't based on traditional intervals and power targets. We go over advantages and disadvantages of both approaches, and discuss how cyclists who don't enjoy intervals…

  • Ten Minute Tips #82: What Your Power Profile Can And Can't Tell You

    September 28, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

    After discussing testing and getting descriptive with power profiling, we weigh the merits of several things power profiles are typically used for like training needs, fractional utilization and underestimated FTPs, race selection and…

  • Watts Doc #66: We Need To Talk About Lactate (Again)

    September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 59 min

    We take a very deep dive into the world of lactate. Starting out with "metabolic logic" to illustrate how and why lactate gets formed during exercise, we then get into the idea of "glycolytic strength" as well as the lactate shuttle…

  • Ten Minute Tips #81: Planning Around Interruptions and Inconveniences

    August 26, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min

    This episode goes into our approach to periodization and training around holidays with and without bike access, injury and illness, extreme heat and cold, including how to adjust mid training block. Plus your listener questions on exam…

  • Ten Minute Tips #80: Learning From Your Season

    August 19, 2026 · 1 hr 39 min

    We discuss our process for learning from a season and applying it to the next one. Goals, roadblocks, recovery, availability, progressive overload, health, and more. We also answer your listener questions about what we're looking for in…

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  • Ten Minute Tips #79: When Fitness Gets Hard To Track

    August 11, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

    Today we discuss navigating training and racing when it gets difficult to assess and find confidence in your fitness, including how this is common during and following hard training blocks, mid race season, amidst off bike stressors and…

  • Ten Minute Tips #78: The Upsides And Downsides Of Training Plans

    July 21, 2026 · 59 min

    ​We examine the the ins and outs of training plans and the ways they can help or hurt our short and long term goals. We discuss plans in general and our approach, and tackle items like adaptability and rigidity, goal setting and…

  • Watts Doc #65: Measuring Training Responsiveness

    June 30, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

    This episode deconstructs a recent study showing unexpectedly low reliability of individual training responses in people undertaking the exact same training program twice. We go down several avenues of reasoning for why this might be the…

  • Ten Minute Tips #77: How Not To Break Up With Your Bike This Season

    June 9, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

    We talk about the summer slump that many cyclists experience, where it can originate from, how to think about maintenance to balance event demands with training and more fun, unstructured riding, and how goals and expectations can come…

  • Watts Doc #64: A Replication Crisis Is A Crisis Of Confidence

    May 20, 2026 · 1 hr 35 min

    We delve into the recent large scale replication project in sport and exercise studies, their methods and findings. Then we try to understand why it found the results that it did in light of known statistical phenomena, similar findings…

  • Watts Doc #63: Confronting Uncertainty In Training And Data

    April 29, 2026 · 1 hr 48 min

    We reveal our process for dealing with the uncertainty inherent in training and racing by keeping the FO in the scientific method of FAFO. After addressing whether or not probabilities are even real and the role of subjective experience…

  • Ten Minute Tips #76: Building Race Fitness

    April 16, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

    We discuss planning race preparation and how it differs from a general aerobic build, periodization considerations, B vs A priority races, adjusting approach based on feedback, differences with low and high training age, and reorienting…

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About the show

Do you want to know how training makes you faster? Listen in. Kolie is a leading expert in endurance, sprint, and strength training for cyclists. Kyle is a NASA scientist and national champion sprinter on the track. Empirical Cycling is a coaching company specializing in individualized training plans for all cycling disciplines. If you like the podcast, please consider a donation at http://www.empiricalcycling.com/donate.html