Training Tips - Podcasts
Expert training tips, nutrition advice, podcasts, and more from FasCat's coaching team.
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...
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...
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...
Rebecca's Private Idaho Race Analysis
Rebecca's Private Idaho has quickly risen to one of the top gravel race weekends in the country. Based in the small ski town of Ketchum, Idaho, RPI was started...
Time Trial Training & Racing w/ Coach Isaiah
This week on the pod, we have a special episode for you featuring our very own TT specialist, Coach Isaiah Newkirk! Isaiah races professionally for the 303...
How to Take a Proper Mid-season Break
From our latest Ask Fascat podcast, Coach Frank and Jackson discuss the importance of taking a midseason break for cyclists, and how and when to do it most...
Ask FasCat #5!
Greetings, fellow bicycle nerds! We're back with another installment of our Ask FasCat Q&A series, where we answer listener questions from our forum and...
Haute Route Asheville Preview Show!
We're here in gorgeous Asheville, NC for the Haute Route Asheville, a 3 day event through the Blue Ridge mountains. In today's episode, we do a live podcast...
How to Travel to Races Like a PRO
With the Haute Route approaching next week, we decided to sit down and talk about how to win at traveling to bike races, whether it's via car or via plane. We...
Ask FasCat #4!
With another 4 weeks gone by in an instant, it's time for another Q&A session! On this week's show, we dive into listener submitted questions on topics ranging...
How to Leave Post-Activity Comments For Your Coach and Be "Coachable"
This week, Coach Frank outlines using the 4 components of monitoring training in his athletes to help you better provide feedback in the post-activity comments...
Ask a FasCat Q&A #3
Welcome to another edition of our monthly FasCat Q&A session! Links to direct questions: 7:50 - How to go "full gas" 11:45 - Are "active recovery" rides...
Ask FasCat #3 — Q&A!
Welcome to another regeneration week (AKA our monthly Q&A episode)! We field questions from the FasCat community to provide our best responses to questions...
Ask FasCat #2 - Q&A!
We're back with another Q&A episode, taking questions from the FasCat podcast community to help you get faster! We answer questions ranging from the proper...
FasCat Coaching Live Q&A: February 21, 2019
Join the discussion on the FasCat Forum - We're back for another round of Ask FasCat, where we take your cycling training questions and answer them. Questions:...
How to Pair and Sequence Your FasCat Training Plans
We get a ton of questions about how best to pair and sequence our training plans to connect them through an entire season or a specific situation. With many...
Everything You Need to Know About the Haute Route with Colby Pearce
This week we are talking about the Haute Route ('oat root'). We're joined by cycling jedi master Colby Pearce (also a Haute Route Elite Ambassador) to discuss...
How To Pair and Sequence Our Training Plans
We get a ton of questions about how best to pair and sequence our training plans to connect them through an entire season or a specific situation. With many...
