HOW PROS BUILD MASSIVE FTP GAINS | Matt Beers | Ask a Cycling Coach 547
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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(00:00) Welcome!
(12:14) Should bigger riders focus on FTP or weight?
(18:29) Matt Beer’s crazy story about how he get into cycling
(42:29) Race Tactics For Larger Riders
(53:45) Should big riders be punchy or steady?
Pro rider Matt Beers joins the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast to share what it’s like racing as a big, high-FTP athlete. He and Coach Jonathan cover his season’s highs and lows, the challenges of gravel’s “no teammates” rule, and strategies for maximizing power and FTP gains through threshold work, low-cadence training, and smart fueling. Matt also answers listener questions on weight vs. power, tactics for bigger riders, and why consistency is the ultimate performance hack.
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| 0:00.0 | Matt Beers, I'm excited to have you on the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by Train Road. |
| 0:03.6 | It's been a while since you were on last. That was your first time. This is your second. We've had a bunch of questions come in from athletes that suffer from the same ailment that you have of having such a high FTP and not knowing what to do with it. So we have those questions earmarked and we're going to go over him today today. How you doing, man? Cool. Yeah, thanks for having me. |
| 0:22.0 | The last pod got, yeah, a lot of people really liked it. |
| 0:25.9 | So hopefully we can, yeah, make another good one. |
| 0:30.1 | Yeah, here we are, doing our best for it. |
| 0:32.0 | Where are you right now? |
| 0:33.6 | Where in the world? |
| 0:35.0 | I'm in Lincoln, Nebraska. so the land of humidity and corn at this point. |
| 0:45.3 | It's interesting out here. A bit different than the Western Cape. Yeah, a little different, |
| 0:53.8 | not as scenic, for sure, but at least we, a little different, not as scenic for sure, |
| 0:55.8 | but at least we have a little bit of humidity, that's the same. |
| 1:00.4 | But yeah, the roads are super nice. |
| 1:03.0 | We did a little bit of a recon this morning, |
| 1:05.2 | and yeah, it's fast, super fast. |
| 1:09.4 | Fast rolling course. |
| 1:11.5 | That's good for big power rider like you, I feel like. |
| 1:15.5 | I think so. |
| 1:16.5 | Felt good. |
| 1:18.6 | At least you can use your weight on these big rollers and kind of carry them up the other side, |
| 1:24.4 | which is real nice. |
| 1:25.9 | And we'll see. |
| 1:28.3 | We just got to manage the heat, the heat and the water. |
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