The Matchbox - A Cycling Podcast
The Matchbox podcast presented by Ignition Coach Co - a cycling show that covers training-related topics in a discussion-oriented format. Show hosts, Adam Saban and Kaitlyn Maddox, are endurance coaches with Ignition Coach Co who share a passion for expanding their knowledge of endurance training. They have also competed as elite cyclists across various disciplines and often lean on their experiences competing at the highest level to provide unique perspective into the world of bike racing. Tune in each week to find out how you can find that extra match for your next race.
Episodes

Friday Jun 03, 2022
Friday Jun 03, 2022
Welcome to episode 14 of The Matchbox Podcast presented by Ignition Coach Co. Hosts Adam Saban and Andrew Giniat are joined by Ignition co-founder, Drew Dillman, and fellow Ignition coach and pro cyclist, Scott McGill (find him on Instagram @scottmcgilljr). The crew briefly talks about some recent racing before diving straight into the topic of training your sprint.
As always, if you like what you hear, leave us a five-star review and share this show with your friends.
If you want us to cover a specific training-related topic in the future, drop us an email to info@ignitioncoachco.com with email title "The Matchbox Podcast" or send us a DM on the social meds.
For more social media content, follow along @ignitioncoachco @adamsaban6 @supertukt @dizzle_dillman @dylanjawnson - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnvEDN2A2ZjhNHb6uxh84PQ https://www.youtube.com/c/DylanJohnsonCycling https://www.ignitioncoachco.com
Intro/ Outro music by AlexGrohl - song "King Around Here" - https://pixabay.com/music/id-15045/

Friday May 27, 2022
Friday May 27, 2022
Welcome to episode 13 of The Matchbox Podcast presented by Ignition Coach Co. Hosts Adam Saban and Andrew Giniat are joined by Ignition co-founders, Dylan Johnson and Drew Dillman. The crew briefly talks about some recent racing and current training before diving straight into some listener-inspired topic conversations. Tune in to hear everyones take on training in the heat and whether you should be focused more on power to weight or raw power for racing.
As always, if you like what you hear, leave us a five-star review and share this show with your friends.
If you want us to cover a specific training-related topic in the future, drop us an email to info@ignitioncoachco.com with email title "The Matchbox Podcast" or send us a DM on the social meds.
For more social media content, follow along @ignitioncoachco @adamsaban6 @supertukt @dizzle_dillman @dylanjawnson - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnvEDN2A2ZjhNHb6uxh84PQ https://www.youtube.com/c/DylanJohnsonCycling https://www.ignitioncoachco.com
Intro/ Outro music by AlexGrohl - song "King Around Here" - https://pixabay.com/music/id-15045/

Friday May 20, 2022
Friday May 20, 2022
Welcome to episode 12 of The Matchbox Podcast presented by Ignition Coach Co. Hosts Adam Saban and Andrew Giniat are joined by Ignition co-founder, Dylan Johnson. The crew briefly talks about some recent racing and current training before diving head first into the rest of the listener questions from last week. Again, some really good topics were during this episode. These Q&A specials were meant to provide high level insight from our coaching and athlete perspectives without going full deep dive into any one subject, however, if you want to hear us discuss more details about any of these posed questions let us know.
As always, if you like what you hear, leave us a five-star review and share this show with your friends.
If you want us to cover a specific training-related topic in the future, drop us an email to info@ignitioncoachco.com with email title "The Matchbox Podcast".
For more social media content, follow along @ignitioncoachco @adamsaban6 @supertukt @dizzle_dillman @dylanjawnson - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnvEDN2A2ZjhNHb6uxh84PQ https://www.youtube.com/c/DylanJohnsonCycling https://www.ignitioncoachco.com
Intro/ Outro music by AlexGrohl - song "King Around Here" - https://pixabay.com/music/id-15045/

Friday May 13, 2022
Friday May 13, 2022
Welcome to episode 11 of The Matchbox Podcast presented by Ignition Coach Co. Hosts Adam Saban and Andrew Giniat are joined by Ignition co-founder, Drew Dillman. The crew briefly gives an update on what they have going on in their own training world before diving into a BUNCH of listener questions. We covered some really great topics during this episode and there were quite a few questions we didn't even get to, so stay tuned for more Q&A to come in the future.
As always, if you like what you hear, leave us a five-star review and share this show with your friends.
If you want us to cover a specific training-related topic in the future, drop us an email to info@ignitioncoachco.com with email title "The Matchbox Podcast".
For more social media content, follow along @ignitioncoachco @adamsaban6 @supertukt @dizzle_dillman @dylanjawnson - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnvEDN2A2ZjhNHb6uxh84PQ https://www.youtube.com/c/DylanJohnsonCycling https://www.ignitioncoachco.com
Intro/ Outro music by AlexGrohl - song "King Around Here" - https://pixabay.com/music/id-15045/

Friday May 06, 2022
Friday May 06, 2022
Welcome to episode 10 of The Matchbox Podcast presented by Ignition Coach Co. Hosts Adam Saban and Andrew Giniat are joined by Ignition co-founder, Dylan Johnson. The show kicks off with some race recap from each including Dylans mediocre Belgian Waffle Ride (BWR) result, Andrews less than pleasant experience at the UCI Tour of the Gila, and Adam played in the local US Open qualifier and also kicked off the local grave race series. Then they get into the main topic for the week, Vo2 Max. What is it, can we train it, and if so, how? Stay tuned to learn from.
As always, if you like what you hear, leave us a five-star review and share this show with your friends.
If you want us to cover a specific training-related topic in the future, drop us an email to info@ignitioncoachco.com with email title "The Matchbox Podcast". Next week will be an entire show devoted to Q&A so get those questions in now!
For more social media content, follow along @ignitioncoachco @adamsaban6 @supertukt @dizzle_dillman @dylanjawnson - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnvEDN2A2ZjhNHb6uxh84PQ https://www.youtube.com/c/DylanJohnsonCycling https://www.ignitioncoachco.com
Intro/ Outro music by AlexGrohl - song "King Around Here" - https://pixabay.com/music/id-15045/

Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Welcome to episode 8 of The Matchbox Podcast presented by Ignition Coach Co. Host Adam Saban is joined by Ignition co-founder, Drew Dillman, and their first female guest, coach Kaitlyn Maddox. They get into the topic of pre-race preparation in a discussion-based format while also carrying out some of the usual off-the-rail tangents.
As always, if you like what you hear, leave us a five-star review and share this show with your friends.
If you want us to cover a specific training-related topic in the future, drop us an email to info@ignitioncoachco.com with email title "The Matchbox Podcast".
For more social media content, follow along @ignitioncoachco @adamsaban6 @supertukt @dizzle_dillman @dylanjawnson @coach.kmaddox - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnvEDN2A2ZjhNHb6uxh84PQ https://www.youtube.com/c/DylanJohnsonCycling https://www.ignitioncoachco.com
Intro/ Outro music by AlexGrohl - song "King Around Here" - https://pixabay.com/music/id-15045/

Friday Apr 22, 2022
Friday Apr 22, 2022
Welcome to episode 8 of The Matchbox Podcast presented by Ignition Coach Co. Hosts Adam Saban and Andrew Giniat are joined by Ignition co-founder, Dylan Johnson. Andrew talks Boulder Roubaix from his first experience at the iconic Colorado classic, Dylan mentions his 4x40min tempo repeats from last week, and Adam is preparing for a golf tournament?! This weeks topic, periodized training, is a fairly common subject but we each added some unique flair to the conversation to provide insight into our own approaches to periodizing a season. We also cover another listener question at the end on aerobic decoupling, so stick around to hear some of our takes on that.
As always, if you like what you hear, leave us a five-star review and share this show with your friends.
If you want us to cover a specific training-related topic in the future, drop us an email to info@ignitioncoachco.com with email title "The Matchbox Podcast".
For more social media content, follow along @ignitioncoachco @adamsaban6 @supertukt @dizzle_dillman @dylanjawnson - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnvEDN2A2ZjhNHb6uxh84PQ https://www.youtube.com/c/DylanJohnsonCycling https://www.ignitioncoachco.com
Intro/ Outro music by AlexGrohl - song "King Around Here" - https://pixabay.com/music/id-15045/

Friday Apr 15, 2022
Friday Apr 15, 2022
Welcome to episode 7 of The Matchbox Podcast presented by Ignition Coach Co. Hosts Adam Saban and Andrew Giniat are joined by Ignition co-founders, Dylan Johnson and Drew Dillman, to talk about some of the training they're doing for upcoming races, Dylan's experience at the first ever Lifetime Grand Prix Series event this past weekend at The Sea Otter Classic, as well as this week's topic of event prioritization and planning your race season. We also cover a listener question at the end about breaking up longer endurance rides into 2-a-days for logistical feasibility, so stick around to hear some of our takes on this approach.
As always, if you like what you hear, leave us a five-star review and share this show with your friends.
If you want us to cover a specific training-related topic in the future, drop us an email to info@ignitioncoachco.com with email title "The Matchbox Podcast".
For more social media content, follow along @ignitioncoachco @adamsaban6 @supertukt @dizzle_dillman @dylanjawnson - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnvEDN2A2ZjhNHb6uxh84PQ https://www.youtube.com/c/DylanJohnsonCycling https://www.ignitioncoachco.com
Intro/ Outro music by AlexGrohl - song "King Around Here" - https://pixabay.com/music/id-15045/

Friday Apr 08, 2022
Friday Apr 08, 2022
Welcome to episode 6 of The Matchbox Podcast presented by Ignition Coach Co. Hosts Adam Saban and Andrew Giniat are joined by Ignition co-founder, Drew Dillman, to talk about athletic fatigue. What areas of training (and life) are adding to your state of fatigue? What are some good training habits to mitigate chronic training fatigue? Find out more in this episode. Also, if you're into criterium racing, tune in to the Sunny King crit this weekend to watch our very own, Drew Dillman, racing with the rest of his Texas Roadhouse squad.
As always, if you like what you hear, leave us a five-star review and share this show with your friends.
If you want us to cover a specific training-related topic in the future, drop us an email to info@ignitioncoachco.com with email title "The Matchbox Podcast".
For more social media content, follow along @ignitioncoachco @adamsaban6 @supertukt @dizzle_dillman @dylanjawnson - https://www.youtube.com/c/DrewDillmanChannel https://www.youtube.com/c/DylanJohnsonCycling https://www.ignitioncoachco.com
Intro/ Outro music by AlexGrohl - song "King Around Here" - https://pixabay.com/music/id-15045/

Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Welcome to episode 5 of The Matchbox Podcast presented by Ignition Coach Co. Hosts Adam Saban and Andrew Giniat are joined by Ignition co-founders, Drew Dillman and Dylan Johnson, to talk about the top five training mistakes we have seen everyday cyclists make. Find yourself falling into one of these habits? Fear not, we present some ways to address these mistakes as well. We also hear from Dylan on his recent 2nd place finish at the Croatan Buck Fifty as well as Drew's mishaps at Barry Roubaix.
As always, if you like what you hear, leave us a five-star review and share this show with your friends.
If you want us to cover a specific training-related topic in the future, drop us an email to info@ignitioncoachco.com with email title "The Matchbox Podcast".
For more social media content, follow along @ignitioncoachco @adamsaban6 @supertukt @dizzle_dillman @dylanjawnson - https://www.youtube.com/c/DrewDillmanChannel https://www.youtube.com/c/DylanJohnsonCycling https://www.ignitioncoachco.com
Intro/ Outro music by AlexGrohl - song "King Around Here" - https://pixabay.com/music/id-15045/