#322 - How To Not Suck At Cycling - Part 3
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.7 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
How do we get better at cycling while retaining a strong run? Today we look at how your FTP can be misleading and taking you down the wrong road. We also look at key training sessions that make the difference in long distance racing. Better testing, cycling's body punches, and how every session is connected.
Topics:
- Challenges of Northern Weather
- Godfather of polarized training
- Cross country skiing
- Keeping cycling simple
- The 80/20 principle in cycling?
- Managing time
- 3 kinds of cyclist categories
- Sweet Spot training
- Is the 95% FTP rule accurate?
- What happens when your FTP is wrongly high
- The hard pill for cyclists to swallow
- Are you gambling with your fitness?
- Swift and Trainer Road
- FTP Inside vs. Outside
- Testing to get better at testing
- Testing + Body of Work Equals . . . .
- How do you know if you had a good or bad day?
- Every training session is a “test”
- The most underutilized bike session
- Building Deep Cycling Strength
- Preparing for the body punches
- The most efficient use of limited time
- Extended intervals or shortened with raised intensity?
- Monitor the 22 hours of the day
- Every session is connected
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| 0:00.0 | You also have to take into account the fact that some people just don't test well. |
| 0:05.0 | And that's true in academics. Their resume might look like crap, but they interview well. |
| 0:09.0 | Or they interview great and their resume looks terrible or vice versa. |
| 0:13.0 | So when you look at an FTP or you base everything on a test, if you're not looking at what else they can do before that and what they do right after, like I had a few athletes that did a test, and then a week or two later, |
| 0:24.6 | they're doing these a workout I built in, and they're averaging over their FTP for an hour and 15 minutes. |
| 0:31.5 | And I'm like, all right, dude, we've got to make some changes. |
| 0:33.6 | Like, you obviously tested very poorly, or you just had a bad day. |
| 0:42.9 | Hey, hey, what's up, buddy? |
| 0:49.1 | Hey, welcome aboard, Rush United |
| 0:51.6 | Podcast. |
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| 0:58.1 | Got it. |
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