Fast Talk Special Edition: Talking Fast, Burning Mouths
Dr. Stephen Seiler joins Trevor, Rob, and Grant as they ask each other spicy questions while eating hot wings.
He is Co-Owner and Director of Coaching at Forever Endurance as well as the Director of the Blue-Stages Racing Cyclocross team. Grant began coaching while still a high school athlete himself and discovered a love that has allowed him to pursue that passion as a joyful pursuit and a profession. From beginners to national and world champions, he is committed to helping each athlete achieve their own personal greatness in athletics.
Grant’s personal background is as a collegiate swimmer, then a professional triathlete and now an impassioned amateur cyclist. His personal love for sport comes through in his dedication and commitment to his athletes and their goals. Grant is an American Swimming Coaches Association Level 5 certified swim coach, former U.S. national team coach, and a member of the USA Swimming World Championships staff in 2013. He is also a USA Cycling Level 2 certified coach and has coached athletes on U.S. national teams in 5 different sports. He has coached several national champions and a Paracycling World Champion.
Dr. Stephen Seiler joins Trevor, Rob, and Grant as they ask each other spicy questions while eating hot wings.
We discuss an eclectic group of odd, challenging, and humorous training topics in this week’s Potluck.
In this roundtable discussion, we dive into how personal connections between athletes and coaches may be more important than training plans.
We discuss a host of odd, interesting, and humorous training topics in this week’s show.
If Coach Holicky could boil sports psychology down to one concept, it’s being present in everything we do. We explore this concept and how it ties together mental toughness, motivation, and even pain tolerance.
In this week’s episode, our hosts talk about the best work to do leading into the race season, getting meditative during intervals, and preparing for an epic event.
In this week’s show, we talk about how we deal with the stress of competition, whether threshold intervals are old news, and the mental side of dealing with health setbacks.
In this week’s show, we talk about training over the holidays, why discomfort is important to our development, and our goals for 2023.
We all understand the purpose of high-intensity intervals and long endurance rides, but is there a value to kitting up and doing a workout that’s both short and easy?
In this week’s show, we talk about whether gravel racing can save North American racing, if adding a Zwift race to your interval work is still good training, and techniques our hosts use to keep in balance.
Whether you’re a roadie, a mountain biker or a triathlete, the unique demands of cyclocross mean it can make you better at your preferred discipline. On this week’s show we chat with cyclocross experts Grant Holicky and Stephen Hyde about the many benefits of ‘cross.
We have a wide range of odd and interesting topics for you in this week’s show.
In this week’s show, we talk about marginal gains in the Tour, how best to approach training races, and what to do if you encounter an emergency mid-ride.
Our hosts continue their potluck discussion and talk about what’s the ideal mental state for performance, whether we should be consistent with our intervals or not, and why failure is so important for an athlete to experience.
We discuss the difference between nutrition and fueling, and why focusing on performance versus health can lead to very different dietary choices.
Coach Grant Holicky describes how athletes are impacted by the additional experts and services that coaches make available to them.
With more ways to deliver individualized training, coaches are well-positioned to reach more athletes.
Many coaches are happy to focus their energy on coaching, not running a business. Some coaches choose to outsource specific tasks through business services.