Aerobic Metabolism 101, Openers, Tahoe Trail 100 and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 212
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2019
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
Join us for a livestream of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast! We'll be discussing the basics of aerobic metabolism and how you can use it to make you faster, the physiological and psychological effects of openers, analysis of Coach Jonathan's Tahoe Trail 100 performance and more!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Analyzing Coach Jonathan's Performance at Tahoe Trail 100
- How to nail perfect pacing
- Can you absorb more than 90g of carbs per hour?
- How to transition to cyclocross season
- How your body turns food into energy
- Everything you needed to know about aerobic metabolism
- Should you mix VO2 and threshold intervals in the same workout?
- How to get big legs
- Advantages and disadvantages of wheel-off trainers
- The psychological and physiological effects of openers
- How to train for Enduro
- Variability Index explained
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist that's a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:06.0 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman. Hi everybody. Our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello |
| 0:10.9 | And this is where we answer the questions that you submit the cycling and triathlon related ones or I guess unrelated to at |
| 0:16.3 | trainer road calm slash podcast and we'll just get straight into this actually the first thing |
| 0:21.2 | I do want to say is that you can join us on YouTube and there are people doing that now live and it's usually every Thursday at |
| 0:25.8 | AM Pacific and you can ask your questions and then we take some time of course and answer those at the end and it's fun to |
| 0:31.6 | I don't know maybe it's fun to see us maybe it's not fun to see us but just the same Matt submitted a question |
| 0:36.7 | That's not the hard to. Yeah, that's true and this is really getting at the most important things in life |
| 0:41.6 | So Matt says love the podcast and app five out of five. Thank you. Appreciate that |
| 0:46.2 | My question is a tad silly but theoretically if my only goal from training was to get giant and he says that in all caps |
| 0:51.6 | Giant quads |
| 0:53.1 | What would optimal training look like he's not silly |
| 0:58.0 | He says I've tried strength training in the past reaching a squat of 305 and a deadlift of 415 at |
| 1:04.5 | 160 pounds. That's his his body weight |
| 1:07.4 | But never saw gains in leg size since growing my ftp from 170 to 215 at |
| 1:13.0 | 155 pounds with trainer road |
| 1:14.7 | I've actually started to see some growth in leg size |
| 1:17.5 | So how could one push this further? |
| 1:19.8 | Chad I think there's two answers one is cycling the one is strength training |
| 1:23.5 | You want to go both routes? Sure. Which route you want to start? |
| 1:26.9 | Well with cycling you're seeing it right now |
| 1:29.2 | You're you're probably getting some slow |
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