#695 – How To Not Suck At Cycling - Part 6
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Back into the cockpit for another round of how to not suck at cycling. Today we look at how cycling is often overlooked as a technical or athletic discipline. We go deep into high cadence, intensity, balance, and big gear work. We also take a dive into lactic acid and V02 max training. How to do it, why it's important, and how to look at things differently if you're training for long course vs. short course. We get into a lot of methods to develop your cycling economy so you can ride strong, but also get off the bike ready to run your best race.
Topics:
- Cycling fitness and how to build it
- Swim and Run fitness
- Technique as it comes to cycling
- You need to ride a LOT
- Intensity vs. Riding long
- Sprint/Oly cycling vs. Long Course
- High Cadence
- Big Gear
- Mountain biking "phase"
- Be an athlete, think, react
- Forcing your legs to make quick changes
- Own your gearing
- Focus on cycling economy
- Maximize your pedal stroke
- Struggling from long course to short course
- Lactate/Vo2 Max
- Glycogen or Fat?
- Turning energy into speed
- Burning through glycogen stores too soon
- Energy reserves
- Big gear work at threshold
- Why you bonk
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ready, set, go. I think that's the name of the song. |
| 0:21.1 | It's one, two, three, go, or something like that. |
| 0:23.8 | I love that. |
| 0:24.3 | This theme song gets a lot of good feedback. |
| 0:27.5 | Hopefully, this podcast today, it's the same. |
| 0:30.1 | It's June 20th, the year, 2023. |
| 0:33.9 | Welcome aboard, everybody. |
| 0:35.0 | You listen to the Crushing Iron podcast, episode 600 in 95 yeah it is it is |
| 0:40.9 | yeah we're cranking it out crank it out let you catch a fiber in there yet is a it's |
| 0:46.1 | Nashville camp week our longest standing camp we got 40 athletes coming in town from all over the |
| 0:53.2 | united states looking forward to seeing |
| 0:55.3 | everybody tomorrow. We have a little bit of dinner and then a whole lot of swim biking around the |
| 0:59.4 | next four days. So it's going to be awesome. One of my favorite camps, a blast. It's such a great. |
| 1:05.4 | Not a lot of people think about Nashville is a great training ground for triathletes. But with the |
| 1:09.9 | trace, great pool places, Percy Warner Park, Anderson Road Beach, it is awesome. So it is a great training ground for triathletes. But with the trace, great pool places, |
| 1:11.6 | Percy Warner Park, Anderson Road Beach, it is awesome. So it is a great camp. Really looking forward |
| 1:16.1 | to that and looking forward to today's podcast as well, which is podcast part duh of the |
| 1:21.4 | how to not suck at cycling that we did last week. Last week was more of the technical aspect. |
| 1:26.6 | Technical meaning handling your |
| 1:29.0 | bike, bike fits, PSI, tire choices, wheel depth, all the things that you don't like to think |
| 1:35.3 | about because you can't put them on Strava, but it'll gain you 10 minutes, therefore beating |
| 1:39.8 | and getting your KOM on Strava. So go back and listen. If you haven't listened, |
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