Ask a FasCat Q&A from our Sweet Spot Saturday Group Ride
FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast
Release Date: 12/22/2025
CoachCat 4.0 + Tour de Femmes Ventoux Power + LIVE Q&A
FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast
Coach Frank goes live with the brand new CoachCat mobile release v6.3.8 and breaks down the winning power up Mont Ventoux at the Tour de France Femmes. Bring your training questions and get them answered live. In this episode: NEW MOBILE RELEASE v6.3.8 Frank shares his screen and walks through everything you can do in the app: The new Recovery tab: your percent recovered readout, plus Sleep, HRV and OTS with tap to ask conversation starters The brand new Progress tab: Power PRs, weekly duration and OTS, all answering the one question every athlete has, am I improving The new Conversations...
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Ask a FasCat #32: Tour de France Power, Cyclocross Training, Using the CoachCat App + Q&A
FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast
Frank "the Big Cat" Overton is back for the Friday livestream with a full walkthrough of the new CoachCat app plus a deep dive into the numbers behind this year's Tour de France. Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel: In this episode: Getting started in CoachCat. Frank tours the custom training plan builder, the 12 most popular conversation starters, adaptive training, and how to push your workout to your bike computer, Zwift, or Rouvy. He also explains why "follow the plan" beats letting your wearable give you the morning Jedi mind trick, and why a low recovery...
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Ask a FasCat #31 , LIVE Q&A + your Summer Training
FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast
Summer Training is here 🚴 This week on Ask a FasCat (#31): durability rides, heat adaptation, race week tapers, and how to survive your local Tuesday night crit. You may also watch this podcast on our youTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zuvdWqk_Dw Coach Steve joins us for 30 minutes fresh off his win at the Tosa Criterium. He's breaking down what it takes to podium in a crit and how he can help you build your own crit training plan. Bring your questions. All of them. FTP plateaus, structured workout tweaks, "should I skip this interval because it's 95°F" — we're...
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Ask A FasCat #30
FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast
On Ask a FasCat #30, we gave away a Stages Power Meter to the listener who asked the most thoughtful question + an annual CoachCat subscription to analyze all that shiny new power data. 🎥 Watch the episode: Here's how it worked: participants dropped their training questions in the comments, and Coach Frank Overton picked the winner live at the end of the show. Not sure what counts as "most thoughtful"? Go back and binge the previous 29 episodes of Ask a FasCat 😂 Just kidding, it's simply the question that sparks the most interest and helps the greatest number of listeners.
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The 8-Minute Workout That Increases Your VO2 Max
FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast
8 minutes of full-gas work. 14% VO2 max gain. But only if you do them right on the CoachCat training app. Your first 7 days FREE: Dr. Izumi Tabata's 1996 study proved that 20-second efforts at supramaximal intensity produce more anaerobic capacity AND VO2 max gains than traditional steady-state training, and in a fraction of the time. In this training tip, Coach Frank Overton breaks down the exact workout 20+ years of FasCat athletes have used to win races: 3 sets of 8 × 20 seconds at 170% of FTP, with 10 seconds rest and 10 minutes between sets. There's a RIGHT way to do Tabatas and a WRONG...
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Build a Custom Training Plan from these 5 Questions
FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast
Build a custom cycling training plan in 5 questions. For a visual walk through of the custom plan builder watch this podcast on our youTube channel here https://youtu.be/nO94dhqgjBg In this podcast & video, Coach Frank walks you through the new CoachCat Custom Training Plan Builder. We use over 100 of our coach-built training plans as phases of your training — Sweet Spot base, builds, intervals, weight lifting, and event-specific phases for road, gravel, fondo, century, time trial, triathlon, mountain bike, cyclocross, and crits — and stitch them together based on your answers to 5...
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Full Gas Zone 4, 5 & 6 Intervals
FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast
Are you doing your zone 4, 5, and 6 intervals as hard as you can? Try CoachCat free: In this video, Coach Frank shows you how to go full gas and get more out of your intervals — more watts, more physiological benefits, and more race craft. Plus the 3 best zone 4, 5, and 6 interval workouts we prescribe to our 1:1 coaching athletes and in the CoachCat app. 🚴 THE 3 WORKOUTS Zone 4 Threshold: 3 x 8 minutes @ 103-110% FTP Zone 5 VO2 Max: 2 sets of 2 x 3 minutes @ 106-120% FTP Zone 6 Anaerobic: 2 sets of 3 x 1 minute @ 120%+ FTP 🐱 TRAIN WITH COACHCAT Your AI cycling...
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5 Training Rules for Masters Cyclists (What Bicycling Magazine Left Out)
FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast
Are you a master's cyclist trying to get faster but feel like something is missing from mainstream advice? Train this way FREE for 1 Month In this video, Coach Frank breaks down the 5 most important training rules for cyclists over 40, 50, and 60+ , and more importantly, what Bicycling Magazine didn’t have space to tell you. Frank was recently featured in their article on coaching older cyclists, and while they nailed the headlines, there’s a lot more nuance that can make or break your performance. Today, Coach Frank is giving you the full coaching perspective. 🚴♂️ What You’ll...
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Unbound Gravel Training: Developing Your Diesel Watts
FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast
Coach Frank describes a 3 month Unbound training plan that you can follow FREE for 30 days → Develop your Diesel Watt power by knowing how to train it in March, April, and May to arrive in Emporia fresh, fit, and ready to send it. Whether you're lining up for the 200, 100, or XL, this video covers the training concepts that have helped thousands of FasCat athletes finish strong,from sweet spot base building to full gravel simulation rides to the art of a proper taper. You'll learn: the Gravel Power Workout (the single best workout for gravel racers) how to build your long ride from...
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Gravel Pacing: the Right and the Wrong Way
FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast
Are you making this gravel pacing mistake? It could be costing you 30 minutes or more — and you won't even feel it happening until it's too late. In this video, Coach Frank breaks down the #1 pacing mistake I see in gravel race power files, why it happens, and exactly how to fix it. I'll show you the one tactical decision you need to make in the first hour of your next gravel race that could save you 30 minutes — without being any more fit than you already are. What you'll learn: - Why gravel racing is really a time trial (and why that changes everything) - How to use Intensity...
info_outlineWhat happens when you mix a live Sweet Spot group ride, real-time coaching, fueling advice, tech questions, and unfiltered athlete Q&A?
You get a live, no-BS training session led by Coach Frank that covers how cyclists train. Pardon the audio as we recorded from our discord channel that was live during the ride.
In this ride & podcast, we dove into a dozen or more topics, including:
1. How to ride Sweet Spot by feel (no rigid intervals required)
2. Why Sweet Spot is “not too hard, not too easy — just right”
3. Fueling correctly indoors (70–90g carbs/hr and why it matters)
4. ERG mode: when to use it and when it hurts your training
5. Using time-in-zone instead of chasing perfect watts
6. Heart rate vs power for Sweet Spot Time in Zone Accuracy
7. Training consistency, durability, and long-ride fatigue resistance
8. How to adapt training when life, travel, injuries, or holidays happen
9. Festive 500 strategy for road, gravel, crit, and masters athletes
10. Strength training + endurance: how to blend them without burnout
11. Why most plateaus are caused by doing the same thing too long
12. How CoachCat helps revise plans, answer questions, and guide decisions in real time 🎯
Who this ride and podcast is for:
Masters cyclists
Time-crunched athletes
Gravel, road, crit, and fondo riders
Athletes training indoors on Zwift
Anyone tired of over-complicating training
🧠 Key takeaway: Fitness comes from doing slightly more work than yesterday and recovering well enough to do it again tomorrow.
Sweet Spot training done right builds durability, raises FTP, and teaches you how to pace long efforts — without burying yourself.
🚴 Join us live again on January 3rd, 2026 Sweet Spot Saturday is part of a 7-ride progression series: Each ride gets 30 minutes longer Builds durability and confidence Ride #7 culminates in the legendary Uber Pretzel
📅 Next ride: January 3 👉 Join the FasCat Coaching Club in the Zwift Companion app
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