Luca Zenti - UAE Team ADQ coach on Tour de France Femmes and bike training for triathletes | EP#469
Luca Zenti is a coach and data analyst for the UCI Women's WorldTour team UAE Team ADQ, and a triathlon coach working with Kate Waugh, Gregory Barnaby, Seth Rider and Max Stapley. In this interview, we discuss the training and the (ever-increasing) race demands in women's cycling, as well as bike training for triathletes, with examples from Kate Waugh's and Gregory Barnaby's preparation for T100 London.
HIGHLIGHTS AND KEY TOPICS:
- Luca's coaching style and training principles
- A look back at the Tour de France Femmes, including highs and lows
- What does it take to win a mountain stage, a bunch sprint, or win from a breakaway in women's cycling in 2025? (Luca shares the exact numbers)
- Comparing the performance level and the training of WorldTour cyclists with top professional triathletes
- Kate Waugh's and Gregory Barnaby's key training weeks and key sessions in the leadup to T100 London
- Advice for age-group triathletes on how to improve triathlon bike performance
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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. Naturally, as great as they are, they do not cover absolutely everything in as great detail as we can do in a 45-90 minute podcast episode.
- The shownotes for today's episode can be found at www.scientifictriathlon.com/tts469/
LINKS AND RESOURCES:
- Luca's Instagram
- Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance - book by Alex Hutchinson (recommended by Luca)
- Endurance Training - Science and Practice (2nd edition) - book by Iñigo Mujika (recommended by Luca)
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