Cycling in Alignment with Colby Pearce
Colby Pearce has been a Steve Hogg Certified expert bike fitter for the past 10 years and has worked with elite athletes and WorldTour teams, including EF Education First. He is also an elite cycling coach and has been passing along his wisdom to the riders he coaches for decades. Pearce’s repertoire of knowledge spans 30 years, five continents, hundreds of races, and countless miles in the saddle. The minutiae of cycling and riding technique are just part of the story that Colby shares. Alignment with nature, foundational principles of health, and treating the sport as a practice are some of the philosophies he shares. Cycling in Alignment features a diverse guest list, including those who may or may not be familiar names in the cycling world. Prepare to have your belief systems shattered.
Episodes
Axioms of Cycling: Chapter Two - Belief Systems - Ep206
In this dialogue I talk about how a rider’s belief systems can impede their progress or prevent them from expressing their highest potential as an athlete. This is quite a common presentation in my experience. Athletes and coaches often focus on training methods and get super granular on 4 x 4 or 3 x 8 but in reality, the barriers to performance are quite often more abou...
Axioms of Cycling, Chapter One - Ep205
Dream, Goal, Objective.
In this episode I outline why an athlete must choose a dream, goal, or objective, and some of the parameters in the process of the choice.
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Relationship to the Sun - Ep 204
What is your relationship to the sun? Are you heliophobic? Have you been told that the sun is an evil celestial orb that will give you disease?
For me, the sun is a source of life, health, rhythm and balance. To hear more of my thoughts on this topic, check out this episode.
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How to Train with a Power Meter - Ep203
In this episode I unpack the upside and shadow side of three different ways to use a power meter.
- As a pacing tool
- As a motivator
- To look at retrospective or futurespective data
I feel these perspectives are important as I think many riders in the sport are mis-using this technology. If you listen to my podcast, you will know it is filled with unpopular opi...
Assassination of the Perfectionistic Mindset - Ep 202
This is a walking podcast in which I talk about the perfectionistic mindset and make a case to meditate on death.
It is perhaps a heavy topic but I endeavor to make the case that when we approach sport as though there is a permanent record of every race we win or get dropped at, and we see this CV as something that will be read at our funeral as a meter of our worth as a human, ...
John Rutherford: Being Forced to Nail Down the Craft - Ep 201
Episode number two hundred and one is a discussion with John Rutherford, who grew up bike racing, is now an ultra runner, has served as Foreign Service Officer for the US Department of State, and has flown F/A-18s when he served as a member of the Marine Corps. As such he has a solid understanding of how to negotiate extreme environments in the field of play, and where i...
Posture and Bears - Ep200
In this walking podcast, #200! I discuss an alternate way to quantify training load. Or not really to quantify it, but to help dictate what proper training load is for a given athlete on a given day. It flies directly in the face of the way every other coach and program tells you to train. So be prepared to be like “wow this is weird”
In other words, SOP for this podcast. Also, bea...
Frankie Hall - Ep199
This conversations is with one of my colleagues at Team EF Coaching, Frankie Hall. We speak about Blood Flow Restriction Training and the potential training benefits is has for cyclists.
Frankie brings a high level of expertise to this discussion as she has a PhD in BFR training. I am sure you will find her insights and perspective interesting if BFR is something you would like to know more about.
T...
Peter Defty and Tony Konvalin: Reclaim your Nutritional Autonomy - Ep198
In this episode I have a discussion with Peter Defty and Tony Konvalin from Vespa Power. Peter reached out to me after my rant on carbs a few weeks ago and felt we should have another discussion. This is the second time Peter has been on my podcast.
We share a lot of common ground in the domain of sports nutrition, and on nutrition in general. Peop...
Slam that Stem? - Ep 197
In this PDWT pod, I attempt to provide a useful answer to a question submitted from my audience:
“Let's say someone comes to you and gets a perfect bike fit for an endurance road bike and everything is dialed in great. let's say they also followed all your advice on stretches/exercises etc...and now feel like want to work on developing a more aero bike position.
What would the steps be in your o...
Everything is not a Nail - Ep196
In this PDWT podcast I talk about the culture of cycling and how focused it is on one single thing: watts.
If a rider only has a hammer in their tool box, everything looks like a nail…
An old saying that has some truth to it: “Train your weaknesses, race your strengths”
Thanks for listening, space monkeys.
You Don't Eat Grams of Carbohydrates - Ep195
In this walking episode I talk about all the reasons I don’t sign up for carbs carbs carbs and more sugar = better so more more sugar sugar = better better.
Didn’t your mom tell you not to eat all that sugar?
She was right.
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Health is an Ongoing Practice - Ep 194
Hello there space monkeys. This episode is Post Dinner Walk Thoughts, a bit of a shorter format than I would typically do. A distilled digestion of ideas on health, and a bit of perspective on how it fits into our life and our relationship to sports and cycling.
If you have comments on this episode or my thoughts, fire the photons. As they say.
Blood Flow Restriction Training with Dr Mike DeBord - Ep193
In this episode I speak with Dr Mike DeBord about Blood Flow Restriction Training and how it is an extremely effective training method for endurance athletes. BFR simultaneously creates an environment of oxygen scarcity and elevated lactate levels, which stimulate mitochondria and also upregulate anabolic hormones. This training method is extremel...
Finding Center with Lawrence Van Lingen (Part 2) - Ep192
In this episode I sit down for the second half of my conversation with Lawrence Van Lingen. We discuss the magnificent Tadej and look at his position on the bike, how he makes power, and analyze some video of him in action. We also peek at videos of Bradley Wiggins, Tom Pidcock, and Remco.
Our conversation digs into the psychology of cyclists and why they do what they d...
Finding Center with Lawrence Van Lingen (Part 1) - Ep191
In this episode I sit down for another conversation with Lawrence. We discuss the magnificent Tadej and look at his position on the bike, how he makes power, and analyze some video of him in action. We also peek at videos of Bradley Wiggins, Tom Pidcock, and Remco.
Our conversation digs into the psychology of cyclists and why they do what they do. We agree that it is ve...
The Han Solo Effect - Ep190
In this walking podcast, I discuss the spectrum of athletes who are coached prescriptively vs those who are coached descriptively.
By examining this spectrum, we can understand how and athlete or coach understand and relates to the metrics they work with, or in many cases, seem to worship.
For the record, numbers should not be worshiped.
My perspective is always to understand the why. I...
Acorns and Ice Skating - Ep189
In this podcast, I take a walk in Girona and discuss the inspirational athletic arc of Alysa Liu. If you haven’t read about her story, I recommend it, she embodies a child like, joyful athlete, and also jumped straight from the archetype of the child to the queen.
3 North Stars - Ep188
As Obi Wan would say, Hello There.
In this walking pod, I offer 3 North Stars. Which should maybe be Three North Stars. But who cares, english spells lots of things wrong like the words receipts. Stupidest word ever. I digress.
The north stars, of which there are the same number as thou shall count before throwing the Holy Hand Grenade, are to help answer the question “How do I simultaneously...
On Meditation - Ep187
In this walking podcast, I outline some very basic ideas behind meditation. For some, meditation can be a daunting or challenging task; I offer a simple structure that can help it feel more productive. It is also important to be gentle with ourselves when we are learning something new; it is very rare that anyone can do a new thing at an accomplished level without experience or training.
Some would offer...
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