Peter leo is an Austrian endurance training scientist and data analyst.

He currently works for the Australian track cycling endurance program and was apart of the mens team pursuit team who won gold at the Paris 2024 Olympics where they also broke the world record.

Mattia Gaffuri is an Italian Cyclist & Coach. He was a finalist in the Zwift Academy in 2023 and a brilliant mind to speak about training and sports science.

Sarah Gigante is an Australian Pro Cyclist & Olympian.

This Episode is With Jack Burke & Svein Tuft about what it takes to make it as a pro cyclist.

Alexander Kristoff is a Norwegian pro cyclist who has ridden in the world tour for 15 years and has been one of the best sprinters and classics riders for the last decade.

He’s won 4 stages of the Tour de France, Milano Sanremo, Tour of Flanders, Gent Wevelgem and many more.

5 previous guests on the podcast have all said Alexander Kristoff is the hardest worker and most focussed rider they’ve ever seen.

John Wakefield is a coach for Bora Hansgrohe/Bora RedBull and was previously a coach at UAE team emirates. He has coached many of the very best cyclists in the world over the last decade and also runs the Science to Sport lab in Girona and South Africa. 

Tim Podlogar is an Exercise Physiologist and Performance Nutritionist for Bora Hansgrohe/Bora RedBull. Tim Is regarded as one of the smartest and most credible nutritionists in professional cycling in 2024.

Joe Dombrowski is an American former world tour rider who raced in the world tour for 11 years on some of the very best teams in the world. He rode 14 grand tours and announced his retirement at the end of January 2024. 

Megan Jastrab is an American Pro Cyclist on DSM, an Olympic Medalist and Multiple time world champion who’s also ridden the Tour de France all by the age of 22.

Ian Boswell is an American former pro who raced 7 seasons in the world tour with team Sky and Katusha Alpecin. He retired after several head injuries, then won Unbound, the unofficial gravel world championships while working a normal job at Wahoo.

Ian Also has a podcast called Breakfast with Boz you can find here https://open.spotify.com/show/6Zcrdvkgj9cJt37765UAhN?si=25ddb93bcc4247b9

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Peter Leo is an Austrian sports scientist and head scientist for the Australian Cycling team. Peter also works with the Jayco Alula mens and womens world tour team.

His responsibilities are sports science for the Australian institute of sport leading into the 2024 Paris Olympic games and he’s responsible for road, track and mountain biking.

Steve Neal is a Canadian coach with more than 30 years of experiance working with mountain bike, road cyclists and XC skiers.

Where he stands out the most from other coaches is his attention to Respiratory Training and Testing. 

Niamh Fisher-Black is a 23 year old rider from New Zealand on team SD Worx - Protime and one of the best female GC riders in the world. This podcast was recorded just before she left for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Jani Brajkovič is a former Slovenian world tour cyclist and was one of the best GC riders in the world between 2010 and 2012.

He was the U23 TT world champion and won the Dauphine in 2010. He’s now dedicated his life to being an AEQ Method teacher which applies to sports psychology and the mind body connection. 

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Mattia Gaffuri is a cycling coach, podcaster and Zwift academy finalist

Asbjørn Hellemose is a Danish former world tour rider on Trek Segafredo

Dr. Kevin Sprouse is the head of performance for the world tour team EF Education - Easy Post and is the host of the Podium podcast which provides sports science related information and how it’s used in the highest level of pro cycling.

Ben Day is an Australian ex-pro cyclist, a former coach at the men’s world tour team Jayco Alula and the current coach for American Magic, the America’s cup yacht racing team where he trains Cyclors (big guys riding bikes on the boat to power the boat) to push 500W + for 20-30min races.

So much incredible training information in this episode. 

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Riejanne Markus is a Dutch world tour rider on Visma Lease A Bike. She’s a multiple-time national champion, won many pro races, multiple top 10s at the world championships and already raced the Tour De France twice. 

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Joss Lowden is a British rider on UNO X and current women’s hour record holder. 

Axel Merckx won an Olympic medal and stage at the Giro but he is also the owner and boss of the best development U23 cycling team in the world - Axeon.

This episode is for anyone who wants to become a pro cyclist or see inside the best development team in the world.  

Alex Baudin is a French world tour rider on Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale. 

Vasilis Anastopoulos is a Greek former rider and current head of performance at Astana where he is currently Mark Cavendish's coach.

He was the head coach at Quickstep where he also coached Remco Evenepoel.

Vasilis has had a long career of coaching the best riders in the world, those are just the two names that come up in this podcast.

Gabriele Gallo is an Italian PHD graduate student and the one behind the Knowledge Is Watt Instagram account which takes the latest sports science and makes it simple to understand. Translating PubMed research papers into Instagram content at a 3rd-grade level of understanding.  

Carina Schrempf is an Austrian rider for the Fenix-Deceuninck womens world tour team.

She was a middle distance runner who switched to cycling after an injury, only started racing at the age of 28 and by the end of her first year racing on the road, she had made it to the world tour.

Quinn Simmons is an American rider on Lidl Trek. A former Junior world champion and current US national champion.

Eduardo Sepúlveda is a pro from Argentina on Lotto Dstny. He’s been a pro for more than 10 years and has an incredible story that shows how hard it is just to get to Europe to get the chance to race the biggest races 

Jonas Iversby Hvideberg is a 25 year old Norwegian pro on UNO X and previously rode for DSM.

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Dries De Pooter is a 21 year old Belgian rider in his second year in the world tour with Intermarche Wanty

Frank van den Broek is a Dutch world tour rider on the DSM-firmenich PostNL world tour team.

He’s 23 years old and starting his first year in the world tour but he’s very open about the best tricks he’s tried to improve his performance so this episode is full of great new ideas.

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Chris Harper is an Aussie world tour cyclist on Jayco Alula. He turned pro older than most but with Jumbo Visma after almost quitting the sport the year before. He finished his first Tour De France in 2023.

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Marco Pinotti is a retired italian pro cyclist and was one of the best Time trialists in the world during his career. He’s now the head coach on the mens world tour team Jayco Alula.

Marco has published many documents over the years on training science and this episode may be the most dense source of information specifically on Time Trial training.

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Sven Erik Bystrøm is a Norwegian world tour rider. He was the U23 mens road race world champion in 2014 and has been a world tour rider for 10 years on Katusha, UAE, Intermarche-Wanty and now Groupama FDJ.

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Simone Petilli is an italian world tour rider on Intermarche-Wanty who previously road for UAE and Lamprey. 

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Mathew Hayman is an Aussie who was pro for 20 years in Europe between 2000 and 2019. He is now a Sports director on Jayco Alula (the mens Greenedge Aussie World Tour Team)

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Maud Oudeman Is a 20 year old rider on the Visma Lease A Bike womens world tour team who signed her first pro contract with Canyon Sram after winning the Zwift Academy in 2021.

Ide Schelling is a Dutch pro on Astana who spent his first 4 years pro on Bora Hansgrohe and wore the polka dot jersey at the Tour De France for the first week in the 2021 edition.

Todd Wells is one of the most famous names regarding American mountain bikers. He raced the world cup for many years, has more than 10 national titles, 3 wins at the Leadville 100 and is a 3 time Olympian. He splits his time between Tucson, Arizona and Durango, Colorado, 2 of the best places for cycling in the US. 

If you’re curious about the book we chat about, it’s called “How To Become A Pro Cyclist” and you can only get it at howtobecomeaprocyclist.com

Tobias Lund Andresen is a 21 year old (born 2002) Danish sprinter on the DSM-Firmenich PostNL world tour team. He’s about to start his second season in the world tour.

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Cesare Benedetti is an Italian/Polish world tour professional cyclist on Bora Hansgrohe. He’s been a rider on the team for 15 years, won a stage of the Giro and was part of the team which won the Giro in 2022. He’s one of the best and most experienced support riders in the world tour.

Matt White was the head sports director of the Greenedge men’s world tour team. He’s now the Director of High Performance and Racing, overseeing all 4 teams including the men’s and women’s world tour as well as the development teams. 

if you love sports science, training science, wanna learn a bit about motorpracing or just want some stats I think you'll enjoy this.

For me, this was overdoing it but it still kinda worked.

Hope it gives you some ideas to do it better and go further than I did

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Nickolas Zukowsky is a Canadian professional cyclist for the pro continental team Q36.5

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Nick is @zuke_0_o on Instagram

I tried Nils Van Der Poels threshold season training method but altered it a bit to make it more into a game. It worked. I did it at an altitude camp and after, I broke almost all my power records but I still don't think it's a good idea for road cycling.

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if you love stories, I think this will make you smile.

Share it but don't fill in the details I left out and get me in trouble. If you know, you know.

Hope it makes you laugh... or just get through some miserable training out in some awful weather.

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Ahmed Madan is a rider on the Bahrain - Victorious mens World Tour Team and the first person from Bahrain to make it to the world tour after graduating from the Bahrain Cycling Academy team.

here's a short clip from the podcast with Sepp Kuss that's inserted between chapters in the audio book and video series version of the book

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I hope you love it!

A clip from one of the podcasts with Dan Bigham. These podcasts are inserted between chapters of the audiobook and video series versions of the book

How To Become A Pro Cyclist

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A clip from one of the many podcasts inserted between chapters of the audiobook and video series versions of my first book, how to become a pro cyclist which you can only get at

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if you love details and specifics, this book is full of them and especially in the podcast with Jan we talked a lot about the crazy numbers and stats from racing currently (2023)

I hope you enjoy, I hope it helps you kill some time out training and if you need more, there's plenty more hours of this stuff to get you through some long rides in the full book.

Enjoy!

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A short clip from one of the podcasts with Svein Tuft. There are many podcasts like this inserted between chapters of the Audio book and video series versions of my first book How To Become A Pro Cyclist.

The only place to get my books is at ⁠howtobecomeaprocyclist.com⁠

if you like this content you ge the full podcasts and so much more in the book. I hope you enjoy and this helps you kill some time out training.

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