The Cycling Brief

Learn how to take control of the coaching relationship and take advantage of the knowledge of your coach. This episode covers Things You Can do to Make The Most of Your Coaching which can be used as a criteria if you’re considering changing and once you change to a new coach.

The Cycling Brief — Daily cycling intelligence, produced by SEMIPRO CYCLING. 

If your current coach's plan seem to work and you have a good rapport, why would you make such a radical change? If your after performance gains and have an appetite for knowledge, then a new coach can serve you well.

The Cycling Brief — Daily cycling intelligence, produced by SEMIPRO CYCLING. 

Learn the 5 step system to become a stronger, faster and more efficient climber. Including the Focus Checklist - a complete body and form check to keep you riding at your highest capacity even in high stress situations. Also learn a quick way to check if you are activating your glutes, and why it's so important in climbing.

The Cycling Brief — Daily cycling intelligence, produced by SEMIPRO CYCLING. 

This episode looks at optimising the mechanical forces on the pedals in different situations to produce a higher power output. In every cycling environment there are opposing forces that change the force on the pedals compared to the input. The problem with pedalling is that it is impossible to have an effective force throughout the entire cycle. Understanding these forces better will help you make adjustments on the fly.

The Cycling Brief — Daily cycling intelligence, produced by SEMIPRO CYCLING. 

This episode is all about choosing team members, finding mentors and pleasing sponsors from both a rider and manager perspective. Nick Traggis - Director at Team Horizon Organic/Einstein Bros helps us out with some knowledge bombs.

The Cycling Brief — Daily cycling intelligence, produced by SEMIPRO CYCLING. 

Carter Jones’ coach Dr Stephen McGregor joins us again to talk about Carter's development. Carter Jones has signed a two year deal with Team Giant-Alpecin.

The Cycling Brief — Daily cycling intelligence, produced by SEMIPRO CYCLING. 

It’s cycling and climbing today with the concept of VAM helps us understand and quantify cycling performance and can be a useful tool to help improve your own cycling performance.

The Cycling Brief — Daily cycling intelligence, produced by SEMIPRO CYCLING. 

Today we are learning about training the respiratory system - that’s right the breathing muscles - not the lungs. Breathing muscles fatigue just like any other muscles. So why not train them? Performance gains of 2.7% or more...

The Cycling Brief — Daily cycling intelligence, produced by SEMIPRO CYCLING. 

Learn how to survive days when you are doing 2 training sessions. This episode gives a basic framework, guidelines and benefits of having two training sessions in one day.

The Cycling Brief — Daily cycling intelligence, produced by SEMIPRO CYCLING. 

We take a look at his approach to building the Performance Systems at Drapac Pro Cycling in it’s first year as a PRO Continental Squad. On an individual level habits are your implicit systems that drive your life.

The Cycling Brief — Daily cycling intelligence, produced by SEMIPRO CYCLING.