#746 – How To Not Suck At Cycling - Part 7
Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast
Mike Tarrolly
4.8 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
What are the keys to becoming a better and more efficient cyclist? Today, we look at the diffrent methods of training. We explore quality over quantity and also look at the "gameification" of cycling. We get into the biggest trap people fall into along with a detailed look at what it means to really improve your aerobic threshold. We talk about dialing in your zones and efforts, along with the lowest hanging fruit for most triathletes. Are you doing too much V02 max work? How do you train hard and race easy? We look at the importance of good torque and moving that ceiling. Neuromuscular connectivity along with great workouts to improve it. Big gear training and the power of grinding in a slow cadence. Avoiding knee pain. Learning how to feel out what your body is capable of today. Aerobic efficiency is the name of the game. Thanks for listening!
Topics:
- Negotiating moods in cloudy weather
- The 2024 Club Plan is Now Available!!
- Introducing New Coaches!
- The keys to inside cycling
- Different methodology when it comes to cycling
- Quality over quantity?
- Cycing has become "gameified"
- Are you hammering yourself to death?
- The biggest cycling trap people fall into
- How to stay engaged in hte workout
- Make sure YOUR intensitity is dialed in
- Over-inflated FTP
- What to be doing this time of year
- Understanding Aerobic Threshold
- Too much V02 max work?
- Dialing in zones and efforts
- Are you riding enough?
- Lowest hanging frut for most triathletes
- Train hard - race easy
- Aerobic efficiency is the name of the game
- Efficiency of Torque
- Neuromuscular connectivity
- When slower makes you faster
- Big gear Z2, Z3, Z4
- Hills are king
- Deep cycling muscular strength
- How to balance leg power
- Are you compensating on one side? Check your saddle
- When the knees splay out
- Knee pain?
- The Next Level of Feel
- A coach can't perfectly predict how you will feel
- Learn mistakes on your own
- The work matters
- Let the hills work for you
Coaching Inquiries
Mike Tarrolly - CrushingIron@gmail.com
Robbie Bruce - C26Coach@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, all right. |
| 0:25.2 | Before we get started, I thought maybe you could help remind me what the sun looks like. |
| 0:27.5 | Are you not getting any? |
| 0:29.5 | I had a sliver yesterday. |
| 0:30.8 | Oh, man. |
| 0:31.7 | Sun Day. |
| 0:33.2 | Gray blanket city. |
| 0:34.1 | Oh, man. |
| 0:36.6 | Sunday reminded me, at least here, Sunday reminded me of somewhere in the early summer of 21, where there wasn't like an official end to this stay-at-home shelter-in-place deal with COVID. |
| 0:52.9 | And everybody just emerged from their house like you step |
| 0:56.4 | like you see and stepping like do when you step on an hill you walked outside every single |
| 1:03.2 | person here was outside oh yeah oh my god it was not a cloud in the sky it was like mid 40 it was |
| 1:10.6 | 45 degrees but it felt like 90. |
| 1:12.8 | I was in shorts and a hoodie. |
| 1:14.5 | I was outside doing yard work. |
| 1:16.0 | People were walking their dogs, going out for runs. |
| 1:18.5 | I saw people on their bikes. |
| 1:21.2 | Unbelievable. |
| 1:22.4 | And we haven't had a cloud since. |
| 1:24.1 | And it's unreal the difference it makes in your movie. |
| 1:26.5 | Because I'll just be honest |
| 1:27.6 | those that two weeks stretch with doom and gloom like cloudiness and grayness and rain and the only |
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