The Cycling Performance Podcast, presented by Team EF Coaching, explores the ideas and philosophies shaping modern endurance sport. Hosted by Nathan Haas and Colby Pearce, the podcast brings together coaches, athletes, sports scientists, and leaders from professional cycling to discuss the science and strategy behind performance.
From recovery and racing to training methodology, fatigue management, and athlete psychology, each episode explores both the data and human side of elite performance. New episodes drop bi-weekly.
What does being healthy mean for an athlete, and how much does it affect performance on the bike?
In this episode of the Cycling Performance Podcast, Nathan Haas and Colby Pearce step back from watts, intervals and training plans to look at the foundations that everything else is built on.
They explore the everyday habits that shape both health and performance, from prioritizing sleep and staying hydrated to eating well, breathing with intention and paying attention to the way you think.
Along the way, Nathan and Colby discuss why more recovery isn’t always better, how breathing and posture can change the way hard efforts feel, why consistency matters more than perfection, and how your internal dialogue can influence the way you train and perform.
Because getting faster isn’t only about what you do on the bike. It’s also about building the foundation that allows you to keep showing up.
15 Sept 2026
What it takes to reach your potential with Esra Tromp
What separates raw talent from a rider who actually reaches their potential?
Nathan Haas sits down with Esra Tromp, General Manager of EF Education-Oatly, to talk about how talent is identified, developed and sometimes missed in professional cycling.
Drawing on her experience as a rider and years spent building and leading women’s cycling teams, Esra shares what she looks for beyond the numbers, from curiosity and mentality to adaptability, patience and simply enjoying the sport.
They discuss why young riders shouldn’t rush their development, the danger of comparing yourself to cycling’s rare “diamonds,” how to figure out what kind of rider you really are, and why asking questions can be one of the most valuable traits an athlete can have.
They also explore why coming to cycling later isn’t necessarily a disadvantage, how playing different sports can build better athletes, and why reaching your potential often has as much to do with time, environment and personality as physical ability.
19 Aug 2026
Maddy Nutt: How Good Could You Actually Be?
What if the biggest thing limiting your performance isn’t your physiology, but what you believe you’re capable of?In this episode of The Cycling Performance Podcast, Nathan Haas and Colby Pearce sit down with elite gravel and ultra-endurance racer Maddy Nutt to talk about performance, identity, risk, data, and what it really means to find your limits.Maddy’s path into cycling hasn’t been a conventional one. She only started riding seriously at 20, with cycling initially built around coffee rides, adventures, and having fun on the bike. Eventually, she left a career in finance to see how far she could take racing. Five years later, she’s become one of the world’s top ultra-gravel riders, with a second place at Unbound XL among a growing list of results.But recent physiological testing with Team EF Coaching challenged something Maddy had long believed about herself as an athlete.She’d always thought of herself as a classic endurance “diesel”: someone who could ride hard for a very long time, but without much ability to produce short, explosive efforts.The testing showed something different. Alongside her exceptional endurance capacity, Maddy also had a surprisingly powerful glycolytic system.And that raised a bigger question: how much of what we think we’re capable of is shaped by physiology, and how much is shaped by the story we’ve been telling ourselves?That discovery becomes the starting point for a much wider conversation about data, self-belief, risk, and whether finding your limits sometimes starts with questioning what you thought they were.
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