Coaching Advice Tips
Take a Rest Week to Increase your Power
Coaching Advice
Taking a rest week may seem like you aren’t training but it is during this time that you actually ‘get faster’. All by not riding your bike and laying on the couch. Patience is tough training! A well…
Recovery for Cycling
Coaching Advice
Sleeping, eating and following a well designed training plan are the three best recovery techniques for cyclists. From beginners to pros, sleeping longer, following a plan and eating better will improve your overall training and racing. These three recovery activities…
Zwift Racing Tips from Coach Jake
Coaching Advice
Zwift racing is a fun way to get in a really hard workout and test your fitness. Expect to be riding at or near your threshold with many burst over for the duration of the race. The shorter…
Indoor Workout Motivation
Coaching Advice
The clock ticks. You stare at your power, and it seems like time is standing still. You are 30-minutes into a one-hour trainer ride, and you want nothing more than for it to be over. How do you…
Know Your Zones
Coaching Advice
Can you recall your training zones? Heart rate and power? The numbers should roll off your tongue. With the introduction of technology-based guides more and more athletes are becoming dependent on what their screen tells them. The real…
Transform your Cycling with a Next Level Approach
Coaching Advice, Podcasts
I wrote this four years ago in 2016 and have been living it since – cycling is a lifestyle and in this training tip I’ll share that lifestyle with you – Frank Overton Jan 9, 2020 Four year’s…
Video: Should You Strength Train During the Season?
Coaching Advice, Off-Season Training, Videos
A hot topic of debate: should you do strength training during the race season? Coach Frank and Jackson discuss… The FasCat Athlete Forum is live! Join the discussion here.
#secrettraining: To race or not to race
#SecretTraining, Coaching Advice, Cyclocross, Off-Season Training
The spring bike racing season is upon us. If you’re a cyclocross racer this can be a tough time of year. While your buddies are hitting peak form and looking to mix it up at the front of…
Switching from Base to Race
Coaching Advice, Training with Power
Now that we’ve hit the home stretch of winter and the first season’s races are on the horizon, intervals looms large for all well prepared cyclists. I’m not talking about sweet spot or tempo intervals; I’m talking full…
Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Cycling
Coaching Advice
If you ride bikes long enough you’ll make plans to do a ride or event that scares you a little bit. Like the Haute Route or a Gran Fondo. 100 miles? Let’s go. 8,000 feet of climbing? Sure,…
Winning in the Kitchen: Performance Nutrition
Coaching Advice, Nutrition
Winning in the Kitchen is a phrase I coined from my cyclocross mechanic friend’s referencing their meticulous work in the garage in the days leading up to an epic conditions race. Gluing tubulars and fine tuning cyclocross race…
Tapering in Cycling for Peak Performance
Coaching Advice
Have you ever heard of the expression “All the hay is in the barn” ? To many cyclists and farmers alike it has great meaning: the hard work is over and now it is time to reap the…
YouTube Training Tips Channel
Coaching Advice, Intervals
FasCat is turning 15th this Memorial Day (2018) so we decided to start a YouTube Training Tips Channel! Our goal is to share training tips that you can use on your next ride: Our training tips youtube channel…
My Coaching Philosophy
Coaching Advice
Recently, I was called “Mr. Sweet Spot” on the Consummate Athlete Podcast. It was a compliment for sure but we went on to talk about the many other things I believed in. As I listen again the podcast…
“A” Race Preparation: 6 Key Elements
Coaching Advice
Cycling season is in full swing and many riders are lining for a crit or road race almost every weekend. But every rider should pick one or two races to key on and make their season priority. Typically…
What to Do When You Feel Sick
Coaching Advice
I’ve been meaning to write about this topic for over ten years because nearly every week I get the: ‘Coach, I’m getting sick, what do I do?” Practicing what I preach, “Always seek the help of a medical…
The Seven Habits of Highly Successful Masters Cyclists
Coaching Advice
You’ve probably heard of the book “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”. I’m a fan and over my coaching years, I’ve noticed how the same principles apply to cyclists: their habits to be successful. Most masters cyclists are…
Phil Gaimon FasCat Athlete Interview
Coaching Advice, Training with Power
Interview by the FasCat Coaches, February 2016 FasCat Athlete and Team Cannondale Rider, Phil Gaimon is back in the European peloton for 2016 and off to a good start having just finished Provence and Haut Var. We asked Phil for his take…
Interview with Dr. Asker Jeukendrup
Coaching Advice
Whether you are a beginning time trialist or a world class competitor there are several ways to use aerodynamics to your advantage. Some are relatively inexpensive while others are prohibitively expensive. We got the inside scoop from noted…
Phil Gaimon, Professional Cyclist Team Garmin, Interview
Coaching Advice, Training with Power
FasCat Athlete Phil Gaimon spent a rest day answering the FasCat Coaches questions on training, cookies, host housing, Frankie Andreu, beer, the suck o meter, his VO2, skinny jeans, razors, Strava, mentors and his CTL. Read on: Coach Nadia:…