EVOQ.BIKE Cycling Podcast

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Part Two With Jason Hilimire! ATTENTION ROADIES that think you can’t learn from a MTBer: At least jump in at minute 17! Learning how to hit 30 foot jumps Amateurs do it until they get it right; Pro’s do it until they can’t get it wrong. REPETITIONS Train to the terrain around you Skills MTB Coaches Finding the different way to go through the trail, OR LIFE When you think you have it dialed….but don’t What works for 8 athletes may not work for another Think outside the coaching box Metric success not being linear Farm road circuit Believing in the win Marginal Gains via the 1% Chunking Time, The NEXT 2 MILES You might not set a PR every month Just because you didn’t win the race doesn’t mean you had a bad race Process goals versus just results Have you tried LactiGOOO yet? www.lactigo.com/brendan 100% Money Back Guarantee; Amazing For Recovery AND Hard Efforts! Full Blog With Training Tips: www.evoq.bike/blog Full Interview Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiOww7FfCwdkXX3vBWdffv8OhzZQTwXkT Subscribe to Our Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/ggRc4n Brendan@EVOQ.bike https://youtu.be/G1DqnHCU8nc

I like the tangents.

Brendan@EVOQ.BIKE

This was a great Cat 4 Question emailed in. We've all heard the analogies about pyramids and foundations, but let's look at what is really going on, and then HOW it affects your FTP and VO2Max. To be brief, yes, riding endurance will help you with those really hard efforts. Here's his question: Why does base, or endurance cycling, matter? All through athletics the answer I get has always been an analogy about building a house or a pyramid; something to the effect of, “the wider the base the higher the peak.” I think I gleaned the answer from a 5 second trainer road podcast statement, “the harder an adaptation is to gain, the longer it takes to lose.” I take this to imply that aerobic adaptations take the longest to improve, but will be kept the longest. This in combination with a Stephen Seiler statement that almost all efforts over 60s are primarily aerobic leads me to believe: Base is important because almost every effort requires some combination of the aerobic and anaerobic systems with the former being the primary contributor. Therefore building a large base is critical to overall long term improvement in almost all levels of performance. If I’m right - great, it would be nice to hear this stated plainly somewhere. Then maybe people will stop skipping endurance rides! If I am wrong - great! I am glad I asked. 12 years in endurance sport and I have always received an analogy as an answer, absent an explanation. Here is my answer: https://youtu.be/4uld9mAlF7Y ----------------- Have you tried LactiGOOO yet? www.lactigo.com/brendan 100% Money Back Guarantee; Amazing For Recovery AND Hard Efforts! Full Blog With Training Tips: www.evoq.bike/blog Full Interview Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiOww7FfCwdkXX3vBWdffv8OhzZQTwXkT Subscribe to Our Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/ggRc4n Follow Me on Strava: https://www.strava.com/pros/5889 Have a great week and good luck with your training!

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I don't hate group rides! I'm just really selfish with trying to get better cause getting dropped suuuuucks

Blah blah coffee mouth blah blah. Tangents. You’ve been warned. 🙏🏽

Huge thanks to Jason for coming on, one of my first coaches! A lot of these tips can be applied to any cycling discipline, whether MTB, Gravel, Road, and dare I mention cyclocross. More on that later ;-) You can follow him on IG at @jasonhilimire THE MAN THAT STARTED IT ALL. Quick overview of the MTB disciplines for us roadies out there tuning in What do you need to be prepared for in order to WIN at different MTB disciplines? Getting out of the gate with the big guns Prioritize where you might be able to make your move in the race Me as a roadie to MTBer…if you want to call it that Using power data as a MTBer HR vs Power (utilize normalize power for MTB) Stochastic power distributions Getting stuck in a big gear with sudden power changes Low cadence / high torque sessions; intermix with high cadence? Big gear stomping then granny cadence Riding the trail vs structured training and intervals Power vs. Speed and riding the trail with better technique WHEN TO CORNER Battenkill prep as a newbie. Conserving ENERGY Clearing the obstacle in your head! You will be that someone else! Have you tried LactiGOOO yet? www.lactigo.com/brendan 100% Money Back Guarantee; Amazing For Recovery AND Hard Efforts! Full Blog With Training Tips: www.evoq.bike/blog Full Interview Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiOww7FfCwdkXX3vBWdffv8OhzZQTwXkT Subscribe to Our Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/ggRc4n https://youtu.be/ZfwnYmKuxsw

Welcome back to part 3 with 2x Austrian National Champion, Riccardo Zoidl! Part 1: https://youtu.be/O6e-zkEeHmI Part 2: https://youtu.be/cqACFuK9uOY Today we wrap up the interview with the following topics, that surely motivated me to KEEP GOING! Riding in the back of the peloton and burning matches Racing Positioning and Energy Expenditure Riccardo’s Big Racing Goal Race Mindset Emotions and Racing Result that he is most proud of? Winning Two Austrian National Championships! (I’m so dumb: I was so amazed that he won once, that I missed the 2nd in the results!!) Growing Through Races That You Didn’t Win But Are Motivating 5th Place Finish Mindset Understanding the feeling of your body; balance the lows and highs Riccardo and EVOQ!!! No snapshot coaching, the “2 week plan”…this is why we don’t do templates! Check out Riccardo on Instagram @Riccardo_Zoidl Brendan is at @BrendanHousler and obviously @EVOQ.BIKE Have you tried LactiGOOO yet? www.lactigo.com/brendan 100% Money Back Guarantee; Amazing For Recovery AND Hard Efforts! Have a great week and good luck with your training! Full Blog With Training Tips: www.evoq.bike/blog Full Interview Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiOww7FfCwdkXX3vBWdffv8OhzZQTwXkT Subscribe to Our Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/ggRc4n https://youtu.be/-xifEAytuZY