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Blog Featured April 24, 2026

Weight is a willpower and math problem

Before I get into this, I want to make one thing clear: this isn’t about moral judgement or assigning blame. It’s about being honest when we define the problem. It’s really hard to solve a problem when you define it poorly, and we’re bad at this one as a society. We preach stupid diets, market miracle exercise machines, and blame the people who fail when these things don’t work for very obvious…

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Blog April 2, 2025

Zone 2 is magic, not a shortcut

I’ve been planning this post for a long time, then a couple weeks ago the NYT posted this article about how Zone 2 isn’t magic. It was all the push I needed… Because it is kind of right, but also mostly wrong. I think the author doesn’t understand how this works, but it’s possible that they dumbed it down so much that it only appears that way because the article is intended…

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Blog June 7, 2023

Is “Training with Torque” any different from “Training with Cadence”?

No. Not unless I’m missing something… As I’m sure you all know, and the author of the article below readily admits, we calculate power (i.e. the metric that matters) by using the incredibly simple formula “cadence * torque = power” in watts. So when Zach gets on his soapbox about Training with Torque, and how it’s all important and stuff, what he’s actually trying to sell is Training with Cadence by a…

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News June 2, 2022

Antibiotics May Impact Endurance Athletes

Anecdotally, I have absolutely noticed a decline in motivation and performance after a course of antibiotics. Although, in each of these cases there has also been a reason why I was taking the antibiotics. Usually because I crashed my bike and needed them to prevent or fight off an infection. For that reason, I’ve never really thought about the potential that antibiotics were exacerbating the problem – until last night when I…

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Blog Featured April 10, 2022

Some Unqualified Training Advice :)

A friend recently asked me to assist them with putting together a training plan. They didn’t provide much in the way of specific goals, so I shared some thoughts on how I approach training. What I’m currently doing, which includes work on the bike as well as off. Some of the way, or maybe why, I do the off-bike work is structured for cycling fitness, but even before I started cycling I…

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