RERUN | Episode 5 - Top 5 Training Mistakes Everyday Athletes Make

The Matchbox - A Cycling Podcast

The last month has been busy with all of our hosts traveling every week for various racing/events so here's another throwback to an earlier episode.

The MatchBox Podcast - Ep. 5 - Top 5 Training Mistakes Everyday Athletes Make (3/29/22)

Individual Top 3

• Adam

1. Lack of consistency and structure - leading to plague
2. Under fueling training/ racing - leading to underperforming
3. Not targeting specific energy systems in a calculated and periodized approach - never maximizing specific improvement potential

• Drew

1. Not Taking Recovery Serious
2. Nutrition
3. Playing the Comparison Game

• Andrew

1. Too hard on easy days (which of course leads to not hard enough on hard days)
2. Under-fueling your rides (especially endurance)
3. Too much obsession with power and not paying enough attention to prescribed sensations (could include some good notes here’s about ego and FTP)
4. Doing too much early in the training year when you’re fresh, —> burnout when it’s time to race