Aggressive Racing, Sprint Power, Over-Unders and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 297
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
Where should you draw the line with aggressive racing, why your sprint power may be lower than you want and how to improve it, why over-unders are so hard and what you can do to improve with them and much more in Episode 297 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
-Intro 00:11
-Get a sneak peek of the Science of Getting Faster Podcast! 00:44
-Work for TrainerRoad! 7:48
-Fueling advice for improving body composition 14:52
-Is racing getting too aggressive? 26:07
-How to deal with overly competitive friends 58:45
-Is the supertuck ban a good thing? 1:21:15
-What is the “one bike to rule them all”? 1:29:44
-Can you race a gravel bike in a criterium? 1:32:44
-The hosts’ favorite girl scout cookies 1:38:00
-Are there good beet supplements? 1:39:06
-What workout would you only wish upon your worst enemy? 1:41:37
-Why over-unders are so hard and how to get better at them 1:44:12
-Why your sprint power is low and how to fix that 1:53:56
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road and coach Jonathan |
| 0:06.8 | Lee we have trainer road and canondales amber pierce |
| 0:09.3 | Good morning everyone |
| 0:10.8 | We also haven't I'm gonna screw up the name here ivy so I apologize |
| 0:13.9 | But hand up gloves and the black bibs racing's ivy a drain. What's up ivy? That's right? You got it. Hey good morning |
| 0:19.4 | Hey, yes nailed it also trainer roads of course ivy's our awesome community manager and our CEO Nate Pearson hey Nate |
| 0:24.8 | Hey John good to have you man |
| 0:27.4 | Good to be excited. You we missed you for those couple weeks |
| 0:31.1 | We have a couple things that we're gonna answer a cover here are really exciting announcement just right off the top |
| 0:36.5 | So if you're listening to this now you're awesome and special person because you get a preview of the science of getting faster |
| 0:42.6 | Podcast if you look and it's it's populating now on different podcasting apps |
| 0:47.8 | So it may not show up on the podcasting app you use you might have to search around for a little bit |
| 0:52.3 | If you're listening to this and we're talking now on February 11th of 2021, right? |
| 0:56.4 | But the science of getting faster podcasts is now publishing so you can google that and check it out |
| 1:01.5 | We'll put a link down below in the description. You can listen to it. We have episodes one through three |
| 1:06.8 | Number one. It's all about heat training number two. It's all about |
| 1:10.3 | Carbohydrate glucose and fructose and if changing the ratios that you get affects your performance on your subsequent workouts |
| 1:17.4 | Later on in the day and then the third one that we have is one where we actually talk about |
| 1:23.0 | ketones but by carbonate and how the two of them work together and how in some cases |
| 1:28.6 | It's almost like a requisite for them |
| 1:30.6 | ketone answers |
| 1:32.6 | ketone answers about yeah different things and so just I want to just |
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