Alistair Brownlee is the standard the rest of triathlon spent a decade chasing. Back-to-back Olympic golds, four European titles, a Commonwealth title, and a career built on a training philosophy of high aerobic volume layered with brutal threshold work — the same template the Norwegian school then refined. For Roadman's masters and triathlete audience he is the bridge from World Tour-level cycling fitness to multi-discipline endurance, and a credible voice on what genuinely transfers from elite training and what does not.
The major positions Brownlee is known for in cycling and endurance sport.
Every appearance by Alistair Brownlee on The Roadman Cycling Podcast — 1 episode in total.
Roadman blog articles that reference Alistair Brownlee’s work.
5 Endurance Lessons from Alistair Brownlee That Apply to Every Cyclist
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Triathlon Bike Pacing: The FTP Percentages That Actually Work
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“I uh I had one real goal in my swimming and that was how do I come out the the water in a race in about fifth position as easily as possible so I was never trying to train to be the fastest I could be I was trying to train to be the most efficient I could be.”
“There is no doubt that um that is exercise training is a DOA response relationship the more of it you do the the better you adapt to it um until you get to some kind of Tipping Point um you can increase that Tipping Point by fueling effectively you can do more work and uh um and adapt to it better to get fitter faster stronger I mean I I think that probably summarizes most of sport Science knowledge about a sentence.”
“People pushing up to some of the crazy numbers you hear about to 160 180 g an hour um which there's zero evidence for from a kind of literature point of view so far um but seems to be some anecdotal evidence uh we'll see what that happens uh what happens in the kind of long run whether um people are actually absorbing metabolizing that amount of carbs or not.”
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