Evidence-based Training for Cycling and Triathlon Performance | Sebastian Sitko

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Fitness, Ironman, Endurancesports, Run, Sports, Cycling, Triathlon, Swimming, Health, Bike, Swim, Sportscience, Health & Fitness, Running

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Sebastian Sitko is a cycling and triathlon coach, and a sports scientist. His active involvement in coaching both amateur and professional athletes, as well in conducting and evaluating research means today’s episode is a perfect opportunity to discuss how to approach the integration of science and practice in cycling, triathlon, and other endurance sports.

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0:00.0	Welcome to That Trafflon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Trafalon and hosted by me, Michael Erikson.
0:15.0	Today I have Sebastian Sitko on as a repeat guest of the show. Sebastian, welcome back. How are you doing?
0:22.2	Many thanks for your invitation, Michael. It's always a pleasure to come here to discuss
0:27.3	current science on triathlon, cycling and other endurance sports. Yeah. It's great to have you.
0:33.6	Can you, for newer listeners who didn't listen to the previous episode, I actually didn't
0:38.8	check before when it was we actually recorded, but probably at least a couple of years ago.
0:43.2	Give the listeners a one minute recap of who you are.
0:47.0	Yeah, so I'm basically a professor of sports science at the University of Zaragoza, which
0:53.0	is located in the north of Spain.
0:55.0	I'm also a researcher here. And I also have my own business where I coach mainly cyclists,
1:03.6	specifically road cyclists, but also some triathletes and trial runners. And, you know,
1:09.2	I work with both pro and an amateur athletes.
1:12.1	All right, great.
1:14.3	And what is your research focus?
1:16.6	What sort of research have you been doing yourself?
1:19.6	In general, we are researching performance in road cycling and particularly all that can
1:26.6	be related to power-based training.
1:29.6	Yeah, yeah.
1:30.7	And yeah, you have your book there for people watching on YouTube.
1:34.1	They can see your book next to you, Cycling 2.0.
1:36.4	So some of the topics we discuss here today are inspired a bit from chapters you have in your book.
1:41.7	But then in general, we will also discuss a lot of the
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