Training Tips
Expert training tips, nutrition advice, podcasts, and more from FasCat's coaching team.
Coach's Buyer Guide Highlight - Gu Nutrition
Coach Frank and Jackson break down their favorite gear that will help you improve your cycling performance at different budget levels. Huge thanks to Excel...
FasCat Holiday Buyer's Guide LIVE from Excel Sports
We're back at our favorite local bike shop, Excel Sports for a LIVE podcast sharing FasCat's picks for the holidays if you or someone you know is a cyclist!...
Thanksgiving Gratitude & Black Friday Show
It's the week of Thanksgiving and Boulder is being covered in snow, so Coach Frank checks in with the podcast to share what he's grateful for, share the...
Coach Isaiah Newkirk on the Transition from Pro Road to Pro Gravel and How to Train
Coach Isaiah is back to chat about his new transition from professional road cyclist into the gravel scene, and how his training and outlook on the sport has...
#SECRETTRAINING CYCLOCROSS TIPS FOR NOVEMBER: SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF
It’s November and the cyclocross season is nearly over! Hard to believe. I always loved this time of year because I knew the weather was getting worse and my...
A Conversation with Steamboat Gravel Founder, Mark Satkiewicz
In case you've been living underneath a rock, gravel racing is hot AF right now. It's registration season for the 2020 calendar, and races are filling up...
Everything Phil's Cookie Fondo with Phil Gaimon
Phil returns to the FasCat Podcast to chat about his upcoming fondo happening in 6 weeks! Frank and Phil talk about his comeback from a terrible crash suffered...
Coach Allie Legg : Life in the Pro Peloton, Gravel Racing, and Offseason Training
This week is a conversation with recently retired pro cyclist and FasCat Coach Allie Legg, who raced for the Twenty20 Sho-Air women's professional cycling team...
#SECRETTRAINING - CX NATS 2019 - TIME TO RUN
This awesome junior racer posted this course preview We are several weeks away from the 2019 Cyclocross Nationals in Tacoma, Washington and by now you have...
Coach's Buyer Guide - Gear That Will Improve Your Cycling
Coach Frank and Jackson break down their favorite gear that will help you improve your cycling performance at different budget levels. Huge thanks to Excel...
Grab Bag: Gamechangers, Zwifting, Principles, and Morning Routines
This week we are talking about the new Netflix documentary The Gamechangers, plant-based Frank, Zwifting, the Excel Sports discount, Ray Dalio's book,...
Ask FasCat #7 - the Cyclocross Edition
We're back with another installment of our Ask FasCat series, where we take listener questions submitted via our forum and add our take to help make you...
Winning in the Grocery Store | Nutrition for Cyclists
We're back with another #WinningInTheKitchen special, serving up a conversation about where this all begins: the grocery store. It doesn't matter how dialed...
Weight Lifting for Cyclists Training Plan
Since we talked about timing as it relates to training last week, this time is all about the timing of strength training/weight lifting for cyclists as it's...
Podcast: Weight Lifting for Cycling
Weight Lifting this winter will make you faster! More strength = more power = higher FTP = riding our bikes faster. However this is not your high school weight...
#SECRETTRAINING: The Perfect Pre-Race Routine
I get asked quite often, “What is the best pre-cyclocross race routine?” Trying to figure out what to eat, when to eat, how to warm up and what to wear can be...
Taking a "Proper" Post Season Break
A proper post season break is 100% individual and should be a collaboration between the coach and athlete. At the very least, the topic of not following a...
Cyclocross Run Workouts
In this video Coach Frank and Brandon Dwight break down 4 important cyclocross run workouts featured in our 6 Weeks to Cyclocross Training Plan . Get ahead of...
Dirk Friel, Co-Founder of TrainingPeaks
This week, Coach Frank sits down with Dirk Friel, the co-founder and Chief Evangelist of TrainingPeaks...the essential software for athletes. It's what we use...
Ask FasCat #6!
We're back for a long awaited Q&A episode, answering questions about everything from weight loss to full gas intervals to altitude adjustment...it's a good one...
