The GFNY Training Center Podcast: Find Every Episode Here

The GFNY Training Center Podast is dedicated to training, nutrition, and all aspects of improving your performance on race day.

Each week there’s new content, typically with two episodes per week for you to learn from.

Here you can find every episode of the GFNY Training Center Podcast.

Training for climbs where there are no climbs-an episode dedicated to how you can succeed in mountainous races even while training on flat terrain. Listen Here.

On-Bike Nutrition: the essentials for fueling properly during races and hard training rides. If you aren’t familiar with these guidelines, you may be leaving huge chunks of time on the table! Listen Here.

Junk Miles: How to avoid wasting your precious training time and avoid non-productive riding (without sacrificing fun). Listen Here.

Our Favorite Workouts-First up, we have a fun episode. Christian and Chris discuss their favorite workouts, and Christian explains their benefits and how you might incorporate them into your training. Listen Here.

De-Mystifying Thresholds and Zones-Our second episode of the week is a big one! Don’t understand why FTP matters, or even what it is? Want to know why training zones exist, what they are based on, and how they’re created? This is the episode to listen to! It’s a big one, so we’ve split it into multiple parts. Listen to Part 1Part 2Part 3, and Part 4.

Post-ride nutrition: This once gets into science and numbers, but it’s worthwhile if you want to maximize recovery and train hard day after day. Listen to Part 1 and Part 2

Cheap speed tips: We all love a new bike or a new set of wheels, but often the secrets to getting faster lie in different, and cheaper, areas. Listen to Part 1 and Part 2

Mailbag questions: We covered a few topics, including using Erg mode on the trainer, fasted training, and staying cool training indoors Listen to Part 1Part 2, and Part 3

Hydration: We’ve covered in-race nutrition in depth before, but focused on getting in calories. This episode we talked about hydration, and helped pair that with previous episodes to help you make a full nutrition plan for race day. Listen to Part 1Part 2.

General vs. Specific Training: Often athletes focus on the small details and lose sight of the big picture. We discuss the benefits to keeping training general and improving across the board instead of focusing on only one aspect of your cycling. Part 1Part 2, Part 3

Cadence: We bust the myths that a higher cadence is always better, or that a cyclist has one ideal cadence. We get a bit into the science on this one, but bring it back to discuss how it impacts your training. Part 1Part 2Part 3

Mailbag questions and check-in on Chris’s training: Listen here to Part 1Part 2, and Part 3.

Time Limited Athletes: Listen here to Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

Smart Weight Loss: Listen here to Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

And remember, the GFNY Podcast is available on a variety of listening platforms: