Power Rankings - Our top-5 bike sessions to improve triathlon cycling performance

We rank our most effective bike sessions in this “Power rankings” episode. If you want to improve your cycling performance, try adding some of these sessions to your program. Whether your training for sprint distance triathlon or Ironman, or even pure cycling events like road or gravel races, there will be several sessions on these lists that can help you take your cycling to the next level. HIGHLIGHTS AND KEY TOPICS: VO2max, threshold, and race specific sessions we really rate Two different ways of executing threshold sessions Why micro-intervals reign supreme of our favoured VO2max-sessions “Sessions” that might surprise you as number one on both Mikael’s and Jack’s top-5 list And, we upvote and downvote each other’s sessions DETAILED EPISODE SHOWNOTES: We have detailed shownotes for all of our episodes. The shownotes are basically the podcast episode in written form, that you can read in 5-10 minutes. They are not transcriptions, but they are also not just surface-level overviews. They provide detailed insights and timestamps for each episode, and are great especially for later review, after you've already listened to an episode. The shownotes for today's episode can be found at LINKS AND RESOURCES: All cycling related episodes on That Triathlon Show WHAT SHOULD I LISTEN TO NEXT? If you enjoyed this episode, I think you'll love the following episodes related to sswimming: Power Rankings – Our top five sessions to improve your triathlon swimming Triathlon Base Training Series 3 – Cycling Beginner Series 6 – Cycling for beginner triathletes Cycling training methods from the WorldTour with Stephen Barrett, Head Coach of Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale and coach of Felix Gall Luca Zenti – UAE Team ADQ coach on Tour de France Femmes and bike training for triathletes | EP#469 Anna Kiesenhofer – Olympic Champion | EP#454 Training talk with Tom Bell | EP#356 You can find our full episode archives here , where you can filter for categories such as Training, Racing, Science & Physiology, Swimming, Cycling, Running etc. You can also find separate archives for specific series of episodes I've done, specifically Q&A episodes , TTS Thursday episodes , and Beginner Tips episodes . LEARN MORE ABOUT SCIENTIFIC TRIATHLON: The Scientific Triathlon website is the home of That Triathlon Show and everything else that we do Contact us through our contact form or email me directly (note - email/contact form messages get responded to much more quickly than Instagram DMs)

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Power Rankings - Our top-5 bike sessions to improve triathlon cycling performance is an episode from That Triathlon Show by Mikael Eriksson.

This episode is 00:52:45 long.

This episode was published on Jan 29, 2026.

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