Does Breath Training Actually Make Cyclists Faster? | Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 567
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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// TOPICS COVERED
(00:00) Welcome!
(02:46) Research Insights on Breath Training
(06:00) Implications for Cyclists
(08:49) Training for Leadville: Sub Nine Strategy
(12:03) Key Components for Successful Training
(14:51) Managing Fatigue for Stage Races
(19:54) Returning to Fitness Post-Transplant
(26:02) Positioning Strategies for New Racers
(30:12) Nutrition and Hydration Plans for Endurance Events
In this episode of the podcast, Coach Jonathan Lee discusses the effectiveness of respiratory muscle training for cyclists, exploring recent research and its implications for performance. He addresses various listener questions, including strategies for training for the Leadville race, managing fatigue during stage races, and returning to fitness after a medical procedure. The conversation emphasizes the importance of personalized training plans, nutrition, hydration, and recovery strategies for optimal performance.
// RESOURCES MENTIONED
- Effects of Respiratory Muscle Training on Performance in Athletes: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analyses, Bahareh, et al., 2013 ( https://journals.lww.com/nsca-jscr/toc/2013/06000 )
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Eskicling Coach podcast presented by Trainer Road. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and today we are going to look at some studies that look into |
| 0:06.3 | respiratory muscle training or breath training to see if it actually helps us get |
| 0:10.6 | faster. We're also going to answer a lot of questions that you submitted down on |
| 0:13.9 | the YouTube comments or on Spotify. Let's just get straight into it. This first |
| 0:17.9 | question comes from David says, I'm an avid listener to the podcast. I |
| 0:21.2 | blame you for the Suffer Fest that was Leadville 2025, though I did get to meet Hannah Otto and thank her for |
| 0:26.7 | her appearances on the podcast, we'll call it even. Good to hear. I see a lot of ads these days for tools, |
| 0:31.8 | physical or apps to increase my breath strength. Is there any value beyond marginal gains in using something like an |
| 0:38.8 | aerofit to increase my lung or breathing strength in the same way trainer road increases |
| 0:43.1 | my cycling strength? I haven't validated to see if David is like associated with |
| 0:47.7 | aerofit. I actually wasn't sure what that product was until going through this question. |
| 0:52.0 | There's quite a few different products that you can look at. So with that caveat out of the way, I have no clue. I'm just going to rely on the research. |
| 1:00.3 | Looking through the research, and we've covered this before, but perhaps this is going to be a bit more of |
| 1:04.9 | like a more up-to-date review. I look through there isn't a lot of recent research that looks into |
| 1:10.3 | performance improvements for endurance athletes with breath training. Now, all, review. I looked through there isn't a lot of recent research that looks into performance |
| 1:10.9 | improvements for endurance athletes with breath training. Now, all reference review that I think |
| 1:17.0 | we actually have reviewed previously on this podcast years ago. It's called effects of respiratory |
| 1:21.5 | muscle training on performance in athletes, a systematic review with meta-analyses from |
| 1:26.6 | Baja Re. it's probably wrong, |
| 1:29.3 | and colleagues 2013. So when you read the abstract, it seems like breath training helps. |
| 1:34.8 | And now, what is breath training? We should probably define that first. It's basically |
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