#148 - How To Not Suck At Cycling Part 2
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
After a short warm-up we take a deep dive into how you can make huge cycling gains. This is not a technical discussion as much as how you can train more effectively and how it translates into race performance along with an overall stronger body for long-term health. We hit on proper (and custom) cadence, pedal stroke, power vs. MPH, hill techniques and many more insights that will take your cycling to a new level.
- Simulating Course Conditions
- Understanding The Right Cadence
- Training For Hills When You Live In Flat Country
- How To Dominate Trainer Efficiency
- Balancing Your Body
- Building Power Out of The Saddle
- The Purpose Of Intervals
- When Recovery Ruins Your Effort
- Adapting to Gearing with Hills
- Different Pedal Strokes
- Finding Your Most Efficient Pedal Stroke
- Trading MPH for Power
- Benefits of Big Gear Work
- Climbing Cadence
- Cadence Gray Zone
- Working Below Your Cadence
- Varying Your Stroke On Purpose
- How Cycling Techniques Help Your Running
- Running Economy
- How To Get To Places Your Body Hasn't Been Before
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:09.7 | Today is March 22nd, 2018. |
| 0:13.8 | And this is the crushing iron triathlon podcast. |
| 0:19.3 | I am Mike Tarale, your color man, and this is Coach Robbie, inspiring others to be |
| 0:26.8 | inspired by themselves all over the world. |
| 0:32.3 | Yeah, I like that. |
| 0:34.2 | Okay. |
| 0:34.9 | It should be our new tagline. |
| 0:36.5 | Inspiring others to be inspired by themselves |
| 0:38.4 | yeah all over the |
| 0:40.4 | universe all over the universe |
| 0:41.8 | all over the universe |
| 0:43.5 | yeah just in case |
| 0:45.5 | you get like a space force or something |
| 0:47.3 | do you believe in aliens |
| 0:49.3 | you know what |
| 0:51.6 | when it comes to things that aren't uh on this planet i tend to really just |
| 0:58.9 | not give a shit wow well i mean listen there are very there are very few things that directly |
| 1:07.6 | impact my life uh and i can guarantee you that unless we do like an |
| 1:11.9 | Armageddon, Bruce Willis kind of thing, or they start enlisting mid-30s or early 40-year-olds |
| 1:21.4 | for a new Space Force, I believe that my time would be well spent in other places. I think they're very well |
| 1:30.2 | could be. I mean, if you, you know, I mean, there, me, who knows? Because I mean, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a big |
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