Welcome to a special episode of the podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist,

Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road. It's just myself and our CEO,

Nate Pearson today. And we're going to be talking all about adaptive training because

it's a big day, Nate. It's watch day. It's live.

Exciting. I know. Big day. I know. The audio will sound a bit different. Nate's in a

different location today. But we are here to answer all the questions that you have about adaptive

training. So if you've joined us live, if you've been to the trainer road forum,

if you've gone on Instagram and followed trainer road and you've seen us asking for questions,

we've been compiling all of those questions, finding the best ways to answer those questions,

getting all the information you need. But of course, everybody is joining us live. You can send

in those questions that you have to the YouTube chat and we'll be able to answer them as we go

through this. But first, Nate, I know a lot of people are probably going like, I already know

all about it after training. I've been using it. It's awesome, but there are plenty of people that

have not actually started using it after training. It might not even know what it is. So we should

probably give them the basics, right? We should describe why we built it first, right?

Yeah, I have something else I have to say, I'm getting on my head. I actually don't have you

so big on my screen and you look so good on this. I'll just do all big. Good vibes.

The live is perfect. It's very cool. It sounds like it feels like you're right here.

Okay, so why do we build adaptive training? Adaptive training, like, this idea has been around for

a long time. Back in like early 2011, 2012, I knew this was part of Trainroads Future. That's

why I say it's been a long time. That was the vision back then to be able to do this.

And what we needed is a system that responds to your performance because

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