John Wakefield is the South African-born coach and bike fitter who runs Science to Sport in Girona — one of the leading lab-to-bike performance facilities in cycling — and now serves as Director of Coaching & Sports Science at Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe. He spent four seasons as Performance Coordinator and Coach at UAE Team Emirates working alongside the Pogačar-era programme, and has coached riders from amateur to Grand Tour level using a metabolic-testing-led methodology. His work matters because he is one of the few coaches who systematically translates lab data — VO2max, Fat Max, lactate response — into the actual training week amateurs and pros ride.
The major positions Wakefield is known for in cycling and endurance sport.
Every appearance by John Wakefield on The Roadman Cycling Podcast — 1 episode in total.
“the minute fatigue kicks in which it does and you can't turn a higher Cadence or higher power you need to then revert which if you if you watch Cadence of these Ultra cyclist the Cadence always goes lower and lower and lower as fatigue sets in and the sessions go harder there will be a point where you're not running on watch you're running on newton meters of torque and when that fatigue kicks in you need to revert to torque to keep going”
“it's a three minute test at a specific power range that you would prescribe to that athlete so hypothetically it's anything from threshold to 110% of threshold as a power value and they would perform that three minute at that specific power uh as I said every sort of 7 to 10 days”
“just because you don't do it during the event it doesn't mean that you don't do it in training because essentially that stimulus you want increase your V2 you increase your V2 your threshold can improve your metabolic phase improves so you want to improve as an athlete essentially going forward from a physiological Point regardless of whether you're going to be doing 4020 type simulation in that endurance event”
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