The Waite Endurance Podcast

It’s mid-season already for us and the WE Development MTB Team!  As we dig into our second Race Prep training block for the year, we’re splitting into two different directions, requiring two different training build variations:

Two different target events, one around 90 minutes and the other around 7 hours, requires a different training approach and we share those customized builds with you in this episode.

Before we get to the training variation talk, we first offer up our in-depth review on the WHOOP fitness wearable we’ve been testing for the last 5+ months. We share our experience with the WHOOP device, what we’ve learned, and how we’re utilizing the data to improve our own training. We firmly believe that tracking HRV and gaining recovery insights into your own physiology is the next frontier in training and we’re excited to be putting the data to use!

Interested in trying a WHOOP device for yourself? Click the link join.whoop.com/withwe to get your own wristband AND first month FREE!

Looking for assistance in dialing in your 2021 training? Check out our downloadable training plans on Training Peaks, or consider having us create a Custom Training Plan for you. See links below for more info…

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Within the Waite Endurance Podcast we share our successful training strategies surrounding endurance cycling from Base Building to Race Preparation to Race Day! 

Listening to our regular podcast will provide valuable insights into the weekly, monthly and annual training objectives that we prescribe to our WE Development Team and the hundreds of athletes we coach and train in Denver, Colorado and around the globe. Tune in each week to learn concepts you can apply to your own training program to help you maximize your endurance performance.

Training Plans. We have training plans created to help you build your base fitness (Base Builder) and sharpen your racing fitness (Race Prep) with progressive training concepts to have you reach your peak performance. Our training plans are available via Training Peaks here: https://waiteendurance.com/stock-training-plans/

** Plan Discounts for Podcast Listeners. Use code BASEBUILDER25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Base Builder Training Plans. Or use code RACEPREP25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Race Prep Training Plans. Use codes at checkout on TrainingPeaks.com  **

Training Plan Subscription Service. Available now to our podcast listeners! Gain access to our entire training plan library you can work through all of our plans with one low monthly fee. Switch between Base Builder, Race Prep, Booster plans and back to Race Prep as you need to fit your specific training and racing goals. And as we create new plans, you have access to those as well! Join for as little as $20 per month and cancel anytime!   https://waiteendurance.com/training-plan-subscriptions/

Join our WE Development Programs. Join the junior XC mountain bike focused WE Devo Team from anywhere in the country with our new 8-month online training program building towards XC MTB Nationals in 2021; OR apply for our UCI-focused WE National Teamprogram to take your training and racing to the highest level towards National and World Championships!

Watch Us on YouTube. Check out our YouTube Channel for all our VLOG, training related videos and other fun content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyTPKJuJ996z52xbH7fvyLw/playlists?view_as=subscriber

Follow us on our Instagram: 

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In our 6th and final installment of our Race Prep Series of pods we wrap up the racing discussions with the need for taking a break after peaking for your A-event or a block of racing.

The mid season break is crucial to avoiding burnout and maintaining motivation through the second half of your racing season. In this show we discuss the nuances of taking a short break and how to leverage it into having you build even greater fitness and reach a higher peak later in your season.

Looking for assistance in dialing in your 2021 training? Check out our downloadable training plans on Training Peaks, or consider having us create a Custom Training Plan for you. See links below for more info…

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Within the Waite Endurance Podcast we share our successful training strategies surrounding endurance cycling from Base Building to Race Preparation to Race Day! 

Listening to our regular podcast will provide valuable insights into the weekly, monthly and annual training objectives that we prescribe to our WE Development Team and the hundreds of athletes we coach and train in Denver, Colorado and around the globe. Tune in each week to learn concepts you can apply to your own training program to help you maximize your endurance performance.

Training Plans. We have training plans created to help you build your base fitness (Base Builder) and sharpen your racing fitness (Race Prep) with progressive training concepts to have you reach your peak performance. Our training plans are available via Training Peaks here: https://waiteendurance.com/stock-training-plans/

** Plan Discounts for Podcast Listeners. Use code BASEBUILDER25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Base Builder Training Plans. Or use code RACEPREP25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Race Prep Training Plans. Use codes at checkout on TrainingPeaks.com  **

Training Plan Subscription Service. Available now to our podcast listeners! Gain access to our entire training plan library you can work through all of our plans with one low monthly fee. Switch between Base Builder, Race Prep, Booster plans and back to Race Prep as you need to fit your specific training and racing goals. And as we create new plans, you have access to those as well! Join for as little as $20 per month and cancel anytime!   https://waiteendurance.com/training-plan-subscriptions/

Join our WE Development Programs. Join the junior XC mountain bike focused WE Devo Team from anywhere in the country with our new 8-month online training program building towards XC MTB Nationals in 2021; OR apply for our UCI-focused WE National Teamprogram to take your training and racing to the highest level towards National and World Championships!

Watch Us on YouTube. Check out our YouTube Channel for all our VLOG, training related videos and other fun content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyTPKJuJ996z52xbH7fvyLw/playlists?view_as=subscriber

Follow us on our Instagram: 

The post Episode 64: Race Prep Series #6 – Mid Season Break appeared first on Waite Endurance.

Your mental fitness is perhaps the most important piece of the racing puzzle. You can put in the hard hard work training, have amazing numbers, and be super strong, but if your head isn’t into it, your racing will lack the luster you’re looking for.

In this show, we discuss mental fortitude: what it is, why it’s important and how to develop it. We break the discussion into strategies to implement before your race day along with race day strategies that can help you put all the training efforts into place on your important day.

Looking for assistance in dialing in your 2021 training? Check out our downloadable training plans on Training Peaks, or consider having us create a Custom Training Plan for you. See links below for more info…

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Within the Waite Endurance Podcast we share our successful training strategies surrounding endurance cycling from Base Building to Race Preparation to Race Day! 

Listening to our regular podcast will provide valuable insights into the weekly, monthly and annual training objectives that we prescribe to our WE Development Team and the hundreds of athletes we coach and train in Denver, Colorado and around the globe. Tune in each week to learn concepts you can apply to your own training program to help you maximize your endurance performance.

Training Plans. We have training plans created to help you build your base fitness (Base Builder) and sharpen your racing fitness (Race Prep) with progressive training concepts to have you reach your peak performance. Our training plans are available via Training Peaks here: https://waiteendurance.com/stock-training-plans/

** Plan Discounts for Podcast Listeners. Use code BASEBUILDER25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Base Builder Training Plans. Or use code RACEPREP25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Race Prep Training Plans. Use codes at checkout on TrainingPeaks.com  **

Training Plan Subscription Service. Available now to our podcast listeners! Gain access to our entire training plan library you can work through all of our plans with one low monthly fee. Switch between Base Builder, Race Prep, Booster plans and back to Race Prep as you need to fit your specific training and racing goals. And as we create new plans, you have access to those as well! Join for as little as $20 per month and cancel anytime!   https://waiteendurance.com/training-plan-subscriptions/

Join our WE Development Programs. Join the junior XC mountain bike focused WE Devo Team from anywhere in the country with our new 8-month online training program building towards XC MTB Nationals in 2021; OR apply for our UCI-focused WE National Teamprogram to take your training and racing to the highest level towards National and World Championships!

Watch Us on YouTube. Check out our YouTube Channel for all our VLOG, training related videos and other fun content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyTPKJuJ996z52xbH7fvyLw/playlists?view_as=subscriber

Follow us on our Instagram: 

The post Episode 63: Race Prep Series #5 – Mental Fortitude appeared first on Waite Endurance.

Without a doubt, race day fueling can make or break your event. In this episode we share the what, why and how we fuel racing performance.

While we touch on the science of topics like glycogen storage, blood sugar management, and combining glucose & fructose as part of your caloric consumption plan, we mostly draw upon the experience of 25 years of racing, 15 years of coaching, and the past few seasons of working with our young riders on the WE Development XC MTB Team. Seeing first-hand the effect of mismanaged fueling and subsequent low blood sugar levels has on the power production and pacing of racing (and the resulting post-race disappointments), the topic of fueling your race has become a passionate topic for the two of us!

So buckle up and learn how to fuel the engine to resist the power fade that so commonly occurs within endurance racing!!

Looking for assistance in dialing in your 2021 training? Check out our downloadable training plans on Training Peaks, or consider having us create a Custom Training Plan for you. See links below for more info…

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Within the Waite Endurance Podcast we share our successful training strategies surrounding endurance cycling from Base Building to Race Preparation to Race Day! 

Listening to our regular podcast will provide valuable insights into the weekly, monthly and annual training objectives that we prescribe to our WE Development Team and the hundreds of athletes we coach and train in Denver, Colorado and around the globe. Tune in each week to learn concepts you can apply to your own training program to help you maximize your endurance performance.

Training Plans. We have training plans created to help you build your base fitness (Base Builder) and sharpen your racing fitness (Race Prep) with progressive training concepts to have you reach your peak performance. Our training plans are available via Training Peaks here: https://waiteendurance.com/stock-training-plans/

** Plan Discounts for Podcast Listeners. Use code BASEBUILDER25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Base Builder Training Plans. Or use code RACEPREP25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Race Prep Training Plans. Use codes at checkout on TrainingPeaks.com  **

Training Plan Subscription Service. Available now to our podcast listeners! Gain access to our entire training plan library you can work through all of our plans with one low monthly fee. Switch between Base Builder, Race Prep, Booster plans and back to Race Prep as you need to fit your specific training and racing goals. And as we create new plans, you have access to those as well! Join for as little as $20 per month and cancel anytime!   https://waiteendurance.com/training-plan-subscriptions/

Join our WE Development Programs. Join the junior XC mountain bike focused WE Devo Team from anywhere in the country with our new 8-month online training program building towards XC MTB Nationals in 2021; OR apply for our UCI-focused WE National Teamprogram to take your training and racing to the highest level towards National and World Championships!

Watch Us on YouTube. Check out our YouTube Channel for all our VLOG, training related videos and other fun content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyTPKJuJ996z52xbH7fvyLw/playlists?view_as=subscriber

Follow us on our Instagram: 

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This is installment number 3 in our rapid-release series of episodes intended to help you get your game-face on and ready to race!

One of the most common questions we get from athletes is “how should I warm-up for my race?”

Warm-ups are a tricky subject. The science says one thing, while 10 different athletes will tell you 10 different things… well one thing we can tell you is that warm-ups are highly individual and there are many factors at play.

In this episode we discuss several of the variables that influence warm-ups such as:

Then we share our “standard warm-up” protocol and provide some suggestions on how to modify based on the several variables that you may encounter.

Two big takeaways we hit on repeatedly are: Less is often more; and practice makes perfect (for you!).

Looking for assistance in dialing in your 2021 training? Check out our downloadable training plans on Training Peaks, or consider having us create a Custom Training Plan for you. See links below for more info…

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Within the Waite Endurance Podcast we share our successful training strategies surrounding endurance cycling from Base Building to Race Preparation to Race Day! 

Listening to our regular podcast will provide valuable insights into the weekly, monthly and annual training objectives that we prescribe to our WE Development Team and the hundreds of athletes we coach and train in Denver, Colorado and around the globe. Tune in each week to learn concepts you can apply to your own training program to help you maximize your endurance performance.

Training Plans. We have training plans created to help you build your base fitness (Base Builder) and sharpen your racing fitness (Race Prep) with progressive training concepts to have you reach your peak performance. Our training plans are available via Training Peaks here: https://waiteendurance.com/stock-training-plans/

** Plan Discounts for Podcast Listeners. Use code BASEBUILDER25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Base Builder Training Plans. Or use code RACEPREP25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Race Prep Training Plans. Use codes at checkout on TrainingPeaks.com  **

Training Plan Subscription Service. Available now to our podcast listeners! Gain access to our entire training plan library you can work through all of our plans with one low monthly fee. Switch between Base Builder, Race Prep, Booster plans and back to Race Prep as you need to fit your specific training and racing goals. And as we create new plans, you have access to those as well! Join for as little as $20 per month and cancel anytime!   https://waiteendurance.com/training-plan-subscriptions/

Join our WE Development Programs. Join the junior XC mountain bike focused WE Devo Team from anywhere in the country with our new 8-month online training program building towards XC MTB Nationals in 2021; OR apply for our UCI-focused WE National Teamprogram to take your training and racing to the highest level towards National and World Championships!

Watch Us on YouTube. Check out our YouTube Channel for all our VLOG, training related videos and other fun content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyTPKJuJ996z52xbH7fvyLw/playlists?view_as=subscriber

Follow us on our Instagram: 

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Welcome to the second installment in our rapid-release series of episodes intended to help you get your game-face on and ready to race!

The weeks of your high-priority events of the season can be stressful. In this episode we discuss strategies on how to minimize the stress so you can maximize your performance!

The discussion includes five key elements of race week:

Learn what we’ve found to be helpful in planning and executing on race week to help reduce your stress levels and increase your performance when it matters most!

Looking for assistance in dialing in your 2021 training? Check out our downloadable training plans on Training Peaks, or consider having us create a Custom Training Plan for you. See links below for more info…

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Within the Waite Endurance Podcast we share our successful training strategies surrounding endurance cycling from Base Building to Race Preparation to Race Day! 

Listening to our regular podcast will provide valuable insights into the weekly, monthly and annual training objectives that we prescribe to our WE Development Team and the hundreds of athletes we coach and train in Denver, Colorado and around the globe. Tune in each week to learn concepts you can apply to your own training program to help you maximize your endurance performance.

Training Plans. We have training plans created to help you build your base fitness (Base Builder) and sharpen your racing fitness (Race Prep) with progressive training concepts to have you reach your peak performance. Our training plans are available via Training Peaks here: https://waiteendurance.com/stock-training-plans/

** Plan Discounts for Podcast Listeners. Use code BASEBUILDER25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Base Builder Training Plans. Or use code RACEPREP25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Race Prep Training Plans. Use codes at checkout on TrainingPeaks.com  **

Training Plan Subscription Service. Available now to our podcast listeners! Gain access to our entire training plan library you can work through all of our plans with one low monthly fee. Switch between Base Builder, Race Prep, Booster plans and back to Race Prep as you need to fit your specific training and racing goals. And as we create new plans, you have access to those as well! Join for as little as $20 per month and cancel anytime!   https://waiteendurance.com/training-plan-subscriptions/

Join our WE Development Programs. Join the junior XC mountain bike focused WE Devo Team from anywhere in the country with our new 8-month online training program building towards XC MTB Nationals in 2021; OR apply for our UCI-focused WE National Teamprogram to take your training and racing to the highest level towards National and World Championships!

Watch Us on YouTube. Check out our YouTube Channel for all our VLOG, training related videos and other fun content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyTPKJuJ996z52xbH7fvyLw/playlists?view_as=subscriber

Follow us on our Instagram: 

The post Episode 60: Event Prep Series #2 – Race Week Strategies appeared first on Waite Endurance.

Racing is back in 2021! We just returned from a 6 week stint on the road traveling to races with the WE Development XC MTB Team and have plenty to share and discuss surrounding racing. The last 6 weeks and 9 races have left racing topics, like event preparation and managing stress & logistics to warm-ups, nutrition and fueling, fresh in our minds.

With so much info to share, we’ve decided to do a six-episode series, with 6 shorter episodes released in rapid succession over the next two-weeks to cover all the topics. We hope you join us and get yourself prepared to race in the coming weeks of the new season… with that, let’s dig into topic #1: Early Season Racing and the value in lower priority “C & B” events in the build up towards your “A” event.

In this episode we first cover all the racing we’ve done along with our WE Development Team in Arizona, Puerto Rico and Arkansas over the past weeks. Get our takes and anecdotes on the Cactus Cup MTB Stage Race, the first UCI XCO events of the season at the Tropical Challenge and Continental (PanAM)Championships, and the first truly “euro-style” modern XCO race track racing at the back-to-back OZ Trails US Cup XCO events in Fayetteville, AR.

After that we discuss the reason for, and value in, including some early season racing into your build up towards your main event. The discussion includes “blowing out the system” and getting those first really hard efforts in your legs & lungs; why the first races of the season typically feel so hard; how racing can be the best form of training; and getting, or regaining, your feel for racing with fast starts, bumping elbows, following surges and attacks, and all the obstacles that inevitably occur on race day.

Then there’s the race readiness side of things that include gaining more experience in the logistical processes like equipment choices, bike tuning, warm-ups, fueling and travel that you want to have dialed before your A event. Join the conversation on these topics in this show as well as the following five “mini-episodes” that will be released rapid succession over the next several days as you prepare yourself to race this 2021 season!

Looking for assistance in dialing in your 2021 training? Check out our downloadable training plans on Training Peaks, or consider having us create a Custom Training Plan for you. See links below for more info…

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Within the Waite Endurance Podcast we share our successful training strategies surrounding endurance cycling from Base Building to Race Preparation to Race Day! 

Listening to our regular podcast will provide valuable insights into the weekly, monthly and annual training objectives that we prescribe to our WE Development Team and the hundreds of athletes we coach and train in Denver, Colorado and around the globe. Tune in each week to learn concepts you can apply to your own training program to help you maximize your endurance performance.

Training Plans. We have training plans created to help you build your base fitness (Base Builder) and sharpen your racing fitness (Race Prep) with progressive training concepts to have you reach your peak performance. Our training plans are available via Training Peaks here: https://waiteendurance.com/stock-training-plans/

** Plan Discounts for Podcast Listeners. Use code BASEBUILDER25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Base Builder Training Plans. Or use code RACEPREP25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Race Prep Training Plans. Use codes at checkout on TrainingPeaks.com  **

Training Plan Subscription Service. Available now to our podcast listeners! Gain access to our entire training plan library you can work through all of our plans with one low monthly fee. Switch between Base Builder, Race Prep, Booster plans and back to Race Prep as you need to fit your specific training and racing goals. And as we create new plans, you have access to those as well! Join for as little as $20 per month and cancel anytime!   https://waiteendurance.com/training-plan-subscriptions/

Join our WE Development Programs. Join the junior XC mountain bike focused WE Devo Team from anywhere in the country with our new 8-month online training program building towards XC MTB Nationals in 2021; OR apply for our UCI-focused WE National Teamprogram to take your training and racing to the highest level towards National and World Championships!

Watch Us on YouTube. Check out our YouTube Channel for all our VLOG, training related videos and other fun content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyTPKJuJ996z52xbH7fvyLw/playlists?view_as=subscriber

Follow us on our Instagram: 

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…and we’re back after a brief hiatus due to travel, training, and team camps!

With spring on the horizon we’re turning our training focus towards high intensity aerobic training as the 2021 race season draws near. In this episode we’re breaking down the key points of high intensity aerobic training to finish off our base build. First we establish the primary difference between low-intensity aerobic training vs. high-intensity aerobic training, the Oxidative energy system vs. the Glycolytic energy system, and the Glycolytic “sub-systems” of Aerobic Threshold, Vo2 Max, and Anaerobic Power.

Be sure to check out episode 57 to learn more about our testing protocol and determining your power numbers associated with these energy system durations.

Then we explain our, simple & repeatable, high-intensity interval training methodology. Our primary goal is to make the training highly adaptable by applying appropriate levels of stress to your body with the minimal effective dose of strain. Using our power duration zones (rather than a % of FTP), your heartrate monitor, and RPE we can better make effective progressions.

After that we share our FOUR cornerstone high-intensity interval workouts that we’ve used over the last decade that address the Anaerobic Threshold, Vo2 Max and Anaerobic Power systems of high-intensity aerobic training.

Finally to wrap up the show we discuss the burning question of “to ERG or not to ERG?”  …listen in to discover the verdict!

SHOW REFERENCES

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Our Strength & Mobility for Cyclist: 24-week At-Home Program is now available for download in the TrainHeroic Marketplace. Use code ATHOME25 to receive 25% off the purchase and start using the training app today!

Looking for assistance in dialing in your 2021 training? Check out our downloadable training plans on Training Peaks, or consider having us create a Custom Training Plan for you. See links below for more info…

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Within the Waite Endurance Podcast we share our successful training strategies surrounding endurance cycling from Base Building to Race Preparation to Race Day! 

Listening to our regular podcast will provide valuable insights into the weekly, monthly and annual training objectives that we prescribe to our WE Development Team and the hundreds of athletes we coach and train in Denver, Colorado and around the globe. Tune in each week to learn concepts you can apply to your own training program to help you maximize your endurance performance.

Training Plans. We have training plans created to help you build your base fitness (Base Builder) and sharpen your racing fitness (Race Prep) with progressive training concepts to have you reach your peak performance. Our training plans are available via Training Peaks here: https://waiteendurance.com/stock-training-plans/

** Plan Discounts for Podcast Listeners. Use code BASEBUILDER25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Base Builder Training Plans. Or use code RACEPREP25 to receive 25% off any of our downloadable Race Prep Training Plans. Use codes at checkout on TrainingPeaks.com  **

Training Plan Subscription Service. Available now to our podcast listeners! Gain access to our entire training plan library you can work through all of our plans with one low monthly fee. Switch between Base Builder, Race Prep, Booster plans and back to Race Prep as you need to fit your specific training and racing goals. And as we create new plans, you have access to those as well! Join for as little as $20 per month and cancel anytime!   https://waiteendurance.com/training-plan-subscriptions/

Join our WE Development Programs. Join the junior XC mountain bike focused WE Devo Team from anywhere in the country with our new 8-month online training program building towards XC MTB Nationals in 2021; OR apply for our UCI-focused WE National Team program to take your training and racing to the highest level towards National and World Championships!

Watch Us on YouTube. Check out our YouTube Channel for all our VLOG, training related videos and other fun content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyTPKJuJ996z52xbH7fvyLw/playlists?view_as=subscriber

Follow us on our Instagram: 

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It’s testing time for many of our athletes as we make the transition from low-intensity aerobic base training to high-intensity aerobic training. This week we discuss the importance of training with BOTH heart-rate and power to identify trends in your training progressions and when it’s time to test!

We’re a fan of the multiple testing data points to determine your fitness orientation. This includes one HR-restricted sub-maximal “aerobic” test to track your aerobic power, along with two shorter “max effort” tests to identify your ‘max aerobic power’ and ‘max anaerobic power’. From here we can calculate your Fatigue Rate in order to extrapolate your training zones based on your own individual ‘power curve’.

We run through the Waite Endurance testing protocol: the concept behind it, where it came from, how it works, and when to do it throughout your training year. We also dig into our “Training Zone Spreadsheet” that takes your testing data and spits out your Fatigue Rate as well as all your power-based training zones.

It’s time to talk testing and nerd out on the data that helps us train to our maximum potential!

Looking for assistance in dialing in your 2021 training? Check out our downloadable training plans on Training Peaks, or consider having us create a Custom Training Plan for you. See links below for more info…

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Within the Waite Endurance Podcast we share our successful training strategies surrounding endurance cycling from Base Building to Race Preparation to Race Day! 

Listening to our regular podcast will provide valuable insights into the weekly, monthly and annual training objectives that we prescribe to our WE Development Team and the hundreds of athletes we coach and train in Denver, Colorado and around the globe. Tune in each week to learn concepts you can apply to your own training program to help you maximize your endurance performance.

Train with Us! Remotely at home this Fall/Winter with our *ALL NEW* Remote Base Builder Program. Follow the exact training progressions, both on the bike and in the gym, that we do in-house and gain the essential knowledge through our weekly podcast. Our 16th annual edition will begin in Fall 2020.

Training Plans. We have training plans created to help you build your base fitness (Base Builder) and sharpen your racing fitness (Race Prep) with progressive training concepts to have you reach your peak performance. Our training plans are available via Training Peaks here: https://waiteendurance.com/stock-training-plans/

Training Plan Subscription Service. Available now to our podcast listeners! Gain access to our entire training plan library you can work through all of our plans with one low monthly fee. Switch between Base Builder, Race Prep, Booster plans and back to Race Prep as you need to fit your specific training and racing goals. And as we create new plans, you have access to those as well! Join for as little as $20 per month and cancel anytime!

Join our WE Development Programs. Join the junior XC mountain bike focused WE Devo Team from anywhere in the country with our new 8-month online training program building towards MTB Nationals in 2021; OR apply for our UCI-focused WE National Team program to take your training and racing to the highest level towards National and World Championships!

** Base Builder Discounts for Podcast Listeners. Use code BASEBUILDER25 to recieve 25% off any of our stock Base Builder Training Plans. Use code at checkout on TrainingPeaks.com

Watch Us on YouTube. Check out our YouTube Channel for all our strength training videos and other fun content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyTPKJuJ996z52xbH7fvyLw/playlists?view_as=subscriber

Send Us Your Questions and Comments.  Email either Coach Cody at [email protected] or Coach Kathy at [email protected]

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The post Episode 57: Testing, Fatigue Rates & Training Zones appeared first on Waite Endurance.

Happy New Year!  We’re welcoming 2021 with open arms and excitement towards getting back closer to some sort of normalcy in the cycling/racing world in the new year.

We’re also deep into the heart of winter and recognize that training motivation may be an issue for some (particularly those in wintery climates)… so after we discuss what we’ve been up to, we dig into some motivation raising techniques that might help you get on the bike another day and keep following the plan!

After that we discuss the classic new years topic of goal setting. We find this to be a very important step towards success in the coming year (and to stimulate motivation). We run through our preferred method of goal setting (read blog article) as well as use ourselves as examples of how to put the goal setting thought process into action. We share and discuss our own goals and ways in which we plan to make them happen… and put ourselves out there having you, our listeners, hold us accountable!

Hope you enjoy the discussion and maybe learn a few tricks of the trade, or share a laugh, along the way. Cheers to 2021!

* please excuse the missing ‘intro & outro’ to the show this week as we experience technical difficulties

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