Empirical Cycling Podcast
Empirical Cycling
Do you want to know how training makes you faster? Listen in. Kolie is a leading expert in endurance, sprint, and strength training for cyclists. Kyle is a NASA scientist and national champion sprinter on the track.
Empirical Cycling is a coaching company specializing in individualized training plans for all cycling disciplines. If you like the podcast, please consider a donation at http://www.empiricalcycling.com/donate.html
Empirical Cycling is a coaching company specializing in individualized training plans for all cycling disciplines. If you like the podcast, please consider a donation at http://www.empiricalcycling.com/donate.html
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Sep 27, 2021 • 1h 12min
Watts Doc #33: Fats vs Carbs Part II - Carnitine and VLamax
We look deeper into how the body chooses to use carbohydrates and fats, and specifically when and how carbohydrates inhibit fat oxidation. This serves as a jumping off point to take a critical look at VLamax and how it may, or may not, affect your FTP.
Aug 3, 2021 • 49min
Watts Doc #32: What Is Aerobic? Fats vs Carbs
What does it really mean to burn something aerobically? This episode concludes the first phase of this series by looking at both the Krebs cycle and the electron transport chain, and putting them in perspective. In what way is burning fats or carbs aerobic, and how aerobically different are they from each other?
Jul 14, 2021 • 55min
Instagram and Reddit AMA!
In this episode we answer questions asked on Instagram and r/velo. The podcast isn't dead!
May 10, 2021 • 1h 3min
Perspectives #2: How To Manage Sickness, with Dr. Fabiano Araujo
This is a wide ranging conversation with Empirical Cycling coach Dr. Fabiano Araujo. We discuss the immune system, inflammation, when you can and can't train when sick, nutrition strategies, and much more.
Mar 2, 2021 • 58min
Watts Doc #31: How and Why We Burn Carbs
This episode starts by looking at the chemical mechanisms of glycolysis, the stepwise dismantling of glucose for energy, and finishes with some big picture learnings about this deceptively simple pathway.
Feb 24, 2021 • 30min
Ten Minute Tips #11: Integrating Physiology Into Coaching
This episode is Kolie's practical view on integrating physiology into a pragmatic training philosophy. Focused on coaches and self-coached athletes who are applying scientific learning to their coaching.
Feb 14, 2021 • 40min
Perspectives #1: The Challenges of Self Coaching, with Alex Carmona
In the first episode of the Perspectives series, Empirical Cycling coaches Kolie and Alex discuss self coaching, the challenges of training and motivation during COVID, the value of knowing thyself, among many other topics.
Jan 26, 2021 • 1h 13min
Watts Doc #30: What Limits Fat Use
This episode takes a wide angle view of the chain of events between starting exercise and successfully burning fat, and where the main bottlenecks are in that process. Nuances discussed are the differences between adipose tissue and intramuscular fats, energy demand rates, diet, and potential training strategies to improve fat utilization at most exercise intensities.
Jan 13, 2021 • 59min
Watts Doc #29: Why Fat Oxidation Is Anaerobic
This episode begins a series on metabolism with the process of oxidizing fatty acids for energy, and why the process is anaerobic. We also discuss fats vs lipids, different types of fatty acids, and take a deep dive into the periodic table to explain why oxygen loves electrons so much.
Dec 23, 2020 • 1h 18min
2020 Best of Instagram AMA Questions
To wrap up 2020, we went through all the questions asked for Kolie's weekend story AMAs and picked our favorites to expand on. The list of questions are in the show notes at empiricalcycling.com, in order of appearance.
