Pro Cyclist. Coach. Musician. Science Communicator.
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined April 2012
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Cyrus Monk retweeted
Maybe the best kept secret of the #TDF2025?
Our daily 🇫🇷 Tour podcast with @Cyrus_Monk and Aiden Burgess.
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Up there with the best Grand Tours I can remember. Unpacked it with the Domestique team here 🎙️
‼️ NEW PODCAST ‼️
🇬🇧 Simon Yates wins the 2025 #GirodItalia with a legendary ride on the Colle delle Finestre.
🔸Was Yates the smartest or the strongest?
🔸Did UAE play it too safe with Del Toro?
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Cyrus Monk retweeted
Want to know what it's like being a pro cyclist? @Cyrus_Monk takes us behind the curtain.
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Been lucky enough to get access to a few CORE sensors over the last few years to aid heat prep for races. Can’t say I rely on them solely for executing heat acclimation sessions and this is partly why. Graph from Stage 1 Tour of Thailand today in 38°C.
Any exercise physiologists out there thinking these numbers are in any way plausible? Definitely cooked it up and noticed a performance decrease but also didn’t end up in hospital as this data would suggest.
@boyntoncoaching @MenaspaP @AbbissC
Sometimes I feel like we’re making inroads to bridge the gap between sports scientists’ findings from the lab and athletes/coaches practicing in the field. Other times we find a sports scientist trying to gate-keep endurance training…
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Cyrus Monk retweeted
The last study from my PhD investigating the effects of cool and hot HIIT on temperate performance and physiological response in trained cyclists is now available open access in @JSCRonline.
Here is a summary of our (@AbbissC & @JeremiahPeiffer) intriguing findings with a number of practical applications at the end. 1/🧵
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Pleasure to chat with Noemi a few days after her TDU victory.
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2025 Ins and Outs
In
⁃ HIIT
⁃ Carbohydrate intake tailored to temperature
- (Even) Less race days per rider
⁃ Short cranks
- Breakaways winning
- Creatine for endurance athletes
- Drone race footage
- Aero bidons on road bikes
- Big helmets
- Bicarb gels
I’m big on learning from the top dogs, not just in my own sport but across all professional sports. This time last year I took a leaf out of @JustinThomas34’s book and wrote down some goals for 2024.
As you can see, a lot of them didn’t go so well.
🧵 (1/5)
It’s rewarding to tick things off; it’s even more rewarding to push yourself to new limits and see just how far you can get, even if reality gets in the way of some of those dreams. Don’t get so fixated on the destination that you forget to enjoy the journey along the way. (4/5)
Cyrus Monk retweeted
Train Like a Monk is one of my favourite podcasts, so it was fun to jump on as a guest and have a chat with @Cyrus_Monk (although I’m still unsure about the Would You Rather question regarding hunger flatting or dehydration!! 😵💫🤣)
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Always a pleasure to chat with @climbingcyclist. This sport is built on stories and not all of those are full of sunshine and rainbows. Thanks to Matt for helping tell mine.
He might be fighting to find a contract, but @Cyrus_Monk is impressively philosophical about the whole thing. He offers some wonderful perspective in this Q&A. escapecollective.com/qa-cyru…
Really strokes the ego
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