THE SHORT ANSWER
Matt Beers, professional mtb and gravel racer, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Beers lands on threshold training. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
WHO IS MATT BEERS?
Matt Beers is one of the best off-road cyclists in the world — three-time Absa Cape Epic winner, multiple Lifetime Grand Prix podiums, and the dominant South African MTB/gravel rider of his generation. He is part of the cohort of mountain bike pros who have crossed into US gravel without losing competitive ground, which is the model amateurs trying to balance disciplines should be looking at. His training partnership with Keegan Swenson under coach John Wakefield is one of the most-watched preparation programmes in modern gravel racing.
BEERS ON THRESHOLD TRAINING
Beers’s key positions on threshold training.
- Metabolic intervals at 3.8–4.2 W/kg early in long sessions, plus full-gas 3–5 minute efforts at ride's end, train buffering and lactate clearance under fatigue.
IN BEERS’S OWN WORDS
Verbatim from Matt Beers’s appearances on the podcast.
“I think last week we did like 35 hours and then this week is going to be like 30 hours um yeah a few eight nine hour rides clocking massive clocking CES off yeah in the desert so it's been cool.”
“I more do it to actually figure out how to fuel and how much water you need to consume it's it's not really the physical like you know you just got to raise 10 hours I don't think you can be too prepared for that um but yeah just figure out how to fuel and manage your the valys and and uh the highs and lows when you go through an 9 hour ride I think it's quite important just to know that you're going to you'll be fine.”
“The protocol is to it's basically 110 to 100% of your FTP so for me it's at 510 three minutes God that's absolutely brutal so you know pretty quick if you if you're on a good day or not.”
HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST
Episodes where Matt Beers covers threshold training and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Matt Beers say about threshold training?
Matt Beers, professional mtb and gravel racer, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Beers lands on threshold training. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Beers's main point on threshold training?
Metabolic intervals at 3.8–4.2 W/kg early in long sessions, plus full-gas 3–5 minute efforts at ride's end, train buffering and lactate clearance under fatigue.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover Matt Beers on threshold training?
Beers discusses threshold training in this episode: "Beers & Keegan Swenson's Insane Unbound Preparation | Matt Beers".
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