Here to unpack the duality of data and intuition in endurance athletics is cycling coach and former World Tour cyclist, Julie Young. She and Colby unpack some of the struggles they each faced in their earlier racing careers around doping in the sport. The main focus of this conversation is to understand the helpful and healthy place for data and analysis in your training. Learning to craft your own intuition is something that, when paired with the right amount of data, can lead you to becoming y...
Sep 29, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 20
In today's episode, Colby Pearce, a Steve Hogg Certified bike fitter, sits down with Chris Case, host of Fast Talk, to dissect the minutiae of how to pedal a bike. Saddle position, ankling, dead legged drills, plantar and dorsal flexion of the foot, all of this and much more is unpacked in today's episode. Resources: https://www.anatomytrains.com/blog/2016/05/31/review-jan-wilkes-evidence-based-myofascial-chains-holly-clemens/ http://back-in-business-physiotherapy.com/images/stories/cyclingkinem...
Sep 22, 2020•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 19
Greetings and salutations, listeners. I am so excited for today’s show, the guest is none other than Paul Chek. I have been a student of Paul’s for a few years now, and I am so grateful and honored he has taken time to speak to my audience. Paul Chek has been an exercise coach for over three and a half decades, but he is much more than someone who can tell you how to do a Swiss Ball crunch. Paul has hundreds of hours of YouTube videos that detail everything from proper relationship to coffee, to...
Sep 15, 2020•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 18
In his continued efforts to help you find balance between life and sport, in this episode Colby focuses on the six foundational principles of a well-balanced life, as prescribed by Paul Chek of the Chek Institute. As a proponent of Chek’s methods and philosophy, Colby will walk through the practical applications of each of these for cyclists. The six principles are: Eating Drinking Sleeping Movement Breathing Thinking
Sep 09, 2020•44 min•Ep. 17
Jess Elliott is an experienced strength and conditioning coach working at EXOS, and as an affiliate faculty member at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Jess is here to help you understand why it is so important to make time for off-the-bike strength and conditioning work. The low-impact aspect of cycling is advantageous to your body in many ways, but it does have some downsides as well. Ensuring that your body can move in a multi-planar fashion with ease and strength can prevent you from ...
Sep 01, 2020•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 16
The fundamentals of cycling are simple; even small children do it. Yet it’s vital that we occasionally revisit the core principles of our favorite sport. In this episode of Cycling in Alignment, Colby outlines many of the key components of cycling, including the physical characteristics that make for great cyclists. He also ponders the question: if your body doesn’t match with this description, can you still be a great rider? Colby also touches upon torque, the pedal stroke, fascial system, phys...
Aug 26, 2020•2 hr 11 min•Ep. 15
Travis Brown is an Olympian and a mountain bike Hall of Fame inductee. His road to the Olympic Games was twisty and narrow, and often fraught with obstacles—not unlike a section of Rocky Mountain singletrack. In today’s episode, listen to his conversation with Colby to hear about how he began his return from a severe leg injury on the bike, even before that leg was weight-bearing. Brown still works with his long-time sponsor, Trek, developing new bikes and equipment. He also develops young talen...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 14
As an athlete, specifically a cyclist, you know that your diet greatly affects your performance on the bike. Your ability to go hard and long depends to some extent on what you've been fueling yourself with. Colby isn't and doesn't claim to be a dietitian or nutritionist; that said, this podcast is a collection of his thoughts on wholesome, clean eating. References: https://secure.metabolictypingonline.com/ https://www.westonaprice.org https://secure.metabolictypingonline.com Eugene Trufkin: htt...
Aug 11, 2020•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 13
Jessi Stensland, the creator of FeetFreex, a website designed to help people connect with their healthy, strong feet, and re-establish a connection with nature. Thanks for coming along with us to experience Jessi’s powerful journey and listen to the lessons she’s discovered along the way. She has deeply developed her relationship with her body in the years since competing as a professional triathlete, swimming at the Olympic trials, and winning a bronze medal at XTERRA World Championships. Her i...
Aug 04, 2020•1 hr 56 min•Ep. 12
Your feet are a critical component to the cycling experience. Proper alignment between feet and body is one of the keys to both power and comfort on a bike. Because of the repetitive motion of pedaling, any issues you might have are compounded by the thousands of kilometers you endure, and you can quickly exacerbate poor foot pronation or supination. If not addressed, sub-par foot alignment can increase your risk of injury. Today’s guest, an expert in this field, is Aaron Anderson, the founder o...
Jul 28, 2020•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 11
Today on Cycling in Alignment we take a step back, off the bike, to focus on the alignment of your mental state. Every activity can be classified as “yin” or “yang” according to ancient Chinese philosophy. You’ve likely seen the interlaced black and white circle representative of this philosophy; the symbol illustrates how seemingly opposite forces can be complementary and interconnected. But have you ever had an in-depth lesson on yin and yang? More importantly, have you learned how to apply th...
Jul 21, 2020•37 min•Ep. 10
Mountain biker Lydia Tanner has won two collegiate national championships and raced internationally with Team USA. She is a long time coach at Boulder Junior Cycling and content strategist at TrainingPeaks. You may have read some of her gear reviews in Bike Magazine. Colby once coached Lydia, and in this interview, she recalls her apathy toward training and riding during that period of her racing career. Lydia reveals why she was struggling so much at the time: Sadly, she was dealing with the al...
Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 9
Which cycling shoes should I buy? This may seem like a straightforward question. But the better thing to ask is: Which shoes are right for my feet? If you’ve been a professional cyclist with extensive experience as a bike fitter, like show host Colby Pearce, the answer to that more complex question becomes an hour-long podcast, filled with the nuances of human anatomy. There are several questions about your physiology and biomechanics that need to be answered before you can select the ideal shoe...
Jul 07, 2020•52 min
Long-time friends, training partners & competitors, Jonathan Vaughters and Colby Pearce have a deep racing history and relationship. Colby & JV first discuss their early training techniques, taught to them by their first cycling coach, Adrie Van Diemen, a Dutch exercise physiologist now with UAE Team Emirates. Vaughters, who has coached many pro cyclists over the years, then gives examples of experiments gone right—and wrong—and how certain training regimens should be applied to certain ...
Jun 30, 2020•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 7
This short bonus episode is meant to clarify that formulas are a useful starting point in cycling and training. Formulas can help you race a faster time trial, to gauge how many bottles per hour you need to consume during a long ride in the mountains, and how long a break should be taken in between. A formula is a proxy for experience. As always, the goal of this show is to help guide you towards the alignment of scientific athletic pursuit with the right relationship of mind and body.
Jun 24, 2020•20 min•Ep. 6
Nikki Costello, lifestyle coach with the CHEK Institute, operator of MyWholeBody, and an experienced ELDOA teacher—in English, it stands for Longitudinal Osteo-Articular Decoaptation Stretching—a practice that she and Colby discuss at length. http://mywholebody.net/about-us/nikki-costello/ Anatomy Trains https://www.anatomytrains.com/ Weston A. Price https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/abcs-of-nutrition/why-we-need-carbs/ Black Onyx https://www.savoryspiceshop.com/black-onyx-cocoa-powder
Jun 16, 2020•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 5
Charlie Merrill, physical therapist and Tabi shoe enthusiast, takes a deep dive on pain in this week’s episode of Cycling in Alignment. https://www.mperformance.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MPerformanceBoulder Kit Laughlin: https://stretchtherapy.net/ Peter O’Sullivan: http://www.pain-ed.com/team/ Stu McGill: https://www.backfitpro.com/about-us/ Steve Bauer “chopper” Paris-Roubaix bike circa 93: https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/product-news/top-five-worst-cycling-inventions
Jun 02, 2020•2 hr 5 min•Ep. 4
Dr. Allen Lim, founder of Skratch Labs, is today’s esteemed philosopher. REFERENCES LUX camp June 15 - July 15 Dr. Allen Lim https://www.doctorallenlim.com Skratch Labs https://www.skratchlabs.com/ Dr. Stacy Sims https://www.drstacysims.com/ Chek https://chekinstitute.com/product/holistic-health-and-performance-for-women-e-learning/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cyclinginalignment/ Twitter https://twitter.com/CyclinginAlign_ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/cyclinginalignment-110271017351...
May 27, 2020•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 3
My goal is to help people express their highest potential by illuminating a path that enables alignment with truth and coherence. There will be some episodes without guests in which I divulge the intricacies of riding a bike. Other times I will invite guests, some of whom come from the sport of cycling. Other guests may not come from cycling, but they’ll always have a connection to living a holistic life. Resources: www.industrytap.com/knowledge-doubling-every-12-months-soon-to-be-every-12-hours...
May 19, 2020•50 min•Ep. 1
When strict stay-at-home orders first struck Spain months ago, Nathan Haas, who rides for the Cofidis WorldTour team, was at his adopted home in Girona. Colby Pearce, who has known Nathan for many years, shared a deep conversation about their longing for nature, made ever more vivid and poignant due to the Australian’s confinement in the medieval Spanish city. Ultimately, the conversation is a tool to teach us about ourselves, from two friends who love nature and who are passionate about bikes....
May 19, 2020•2 hr 18 min•Ep. 2
The "Cycling in Alignment” podcast is the brainchild of Colby Pearce, a U.S. Olympic track cyclist & Hour Record holder. Colby has been a Steve Hogg Certified expert bike fitter for 10 years & has worked with elite athletes and WorldTour teams. Alignment with nature, foundational principles of health, and treating the sport as a practice are some of the philosophies that will be discussed. The show will feature a diverse guest list, including those who may not be familiar names in the cy...
May 07, 2020•2 min
