How To Become A Pro Cyclist with Jack Burke Giacomo Notari #2
Nov 15, 2025
Giacomo Notari, Italian coach at UAE Team Emirates who designs training, periodization and gym plans. He talks about offseason resets, daily fueling experiments, and balancing carbs with training. He explains interval choices like 30/15s, making workouts fun, gym programming, and how UAE favors quality over raw hours. He also covers progression to A-races, scouting pathways, and building rider durability.
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Fuel Heavily On Long Rides To Stack Sessions
- Eat enough on the bike to enable stacking hard sessions day-after-day and dramatically improve recovery.
- Giacomo tested high in-ride fueling vs older habits and says modern riders must practice eating on long rides to sustain repeated hard efforts.
Match Carb Intake To Ride Duration
- Avoid constant maximal carbohydrate intake on short rides; match carbs to duration (30–60g/h for up to ~2h, ~90g/h for >3h).
- Jack relays Asker Jeukendrup rules to prevent unnecessary over-fueling on sub-3h efforts.
Use 30-15s To Train Race Surges
- Use 30-15 interval sessions to replicate race randomness: 30s hard, 15s recovery to train rapid recovery from repeated surges.
- Giacomo describes doing 6–8 minute climb-based blocks of repeated 30/15s and how it improves race followability.