THE SHORT ANSWER
Jay Vine, uae team emirates professional, zwift academy winner, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast 4 times. Here's where Vine lands on coaching. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
WHO IS JAY VINE?
Jay Vine is the proof that the path into professional cycling has changed. He won the Zwift Academy from his pain cave and rode it into a WorldTour contract, then into Grand Tour stage wins. For the amateur grinding away on a smart trainer, he's the clearest example yet that watts measured indoors are real watts — and his reflections on how easing his training load made him faster cut against the more-is-better instinct most amateurs share.
VINE ON COACHING
Vine’s key positions on coaching.
- Won the Zwift Academy and converted an indoor-racing breakthrough into a WorldTour career — the watts you produce on a trainer are real.
- Found that doing less training, not more, made him faster as he moved up — recovery is the limiter at the top.
- Came through as a neo-pro without the traditional junior-ranks pathway, a thoroughly modern route into the sport.
- Built a reputation on big Strava segment records before the pro contract — performance is performance, wherever it's measured.
IN VINE’S OWN WORDS
Verbatim from Jay Vine’s appearances on the podcast.
“the hours I'd say dropped dropped a little bit but they dropped more than what most people would think like before I was probably doing 24 hours a week now I'm doing 20 hours a week on average and you know if you said to most people what do professionals do they'd they'll probably give you a number like 30 hours a week of of actual writing and that's that's just not something that I I end up doing”
“any sort of Technology like that that we can't use that we that we use in training that we can't then use in racing is sort of useless to us because we can't train all year around using a certain metric and then come to the Tour de France and then get told oh we're gonna swap you back to the old system”
“it just estimated my FTP to be ridiculous like contador eating a bad steak sort of ridiculous um which meant that I just couldn't complete any of my sessions um whereas now we're testing a lot more with just FTP stuff and in race uh in race you know 20-minute efforts to to work out FTP that way um which I think is a much better value to to go off because you're going to get the best out of yourself in a race”
“No, no amateurs are doing 40 hours in 10 days and then having a rest day and then doing 30 hours and then having another rest day. It's just not what amateurs do, so it's not comparable.”
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Episodes where Jay Vine covers coaching and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Jay Vine say about coaching?
Jay Vine, uae team emirates professional, zwift academy winner, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast 4 times. Here's where Vine lands on coaching. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Vine's main point on coaching?
Won the Zwift Academy and converted an indoor-racing breakthrough into a WorldTour career — the watts you produce on a trainer are real.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover Jay Vine on coaching?
Vine discusses coaching in these episodes: "Jay Vine Opens Up About How LESS TRAINING Made Him Faster", "Jay Vine - Here For The Long Run", "Jay Vine - Battling The Big Boys".
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