Are Wide Tires Better, The Fat Burning Zone Myth, Brick Training & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 131
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Are wider tires really better, what intensity is best for fat burning and can you brick strength training and cycling workouts? Get the answers in this episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• TrainerRoad Party at Cyclocross National Championships!
• We're hiring software engineers! Apply here.
• Why you should sync Strava and Garmin Connect to TrainerRoad
• Training entertainment suggestions
• How to manage motivation when life won't let you train
• Which Build Phase training plan is best for time trialists
• Why you shouldn't copy other's training
• Are wider tires better?
• What size tire should you be running on your rims?
• How to make your current wheelset more aero
• How to avoid weight gain when you can't train
• Why do triathletes always keep their shoes clipped in?
• Are road shoes faster than MTB shoes?
• Should you pick road shoes or triathlon shoes?
• Do low intensity workouts really burn more fat?
• How to train for Leadville and Epic Rides
• Is it bad to do strength training right after a cycling workout?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast. It's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer |
| 0:05.7 | Road and coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timberman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:10.5 | Hey, hey, and we are here to answer more of your cycling and triathlon related questions today |
| 0:15.3 | You can submit them at trainer road comm slash podcast |
| 0:19.3 | Before we get into the questions we have a number of things to cover as we usually do |
| 0:24.0 | Firstly reminding you once more that we have a cycle cross nationals event coming up |
| 0:28.9 | So crossnats are in the USA of course are here in Reno Nevada this year and |
| 0:34.8 | 2018 in 2018 in January so she's in six weeks or so and we are going to be having a live event |
| 0:42.1 | We'll share more details next week, but it's gonna be a ton of fun. We're gonna have some some drinks and light refreshments here |
| 0:48.7 | We're gonna have some some very interesting and knowledgeable people here |
| 0:52.2 | And we're going to be doing a live podcast event |
| 0:54.4 | So if you're here racing the events are here in the region you should join us. It'll be a ton of fun |
| 0:58.9 | That's the first thing |
| 1:00.9 | We have we still have the job posting up for three software engineers C sharp |
| 1:05.3 | slash angular two you can specialize in back end or front end and |
| 1:09.1 | If you want to apply go to trainer dot com slash jobs and allows for remote work to which is cool |
| 1:13.6 | Yeah, you can live anywhere you want cool almost anywhere US US helps a lot for time zones and taxes |
| 1:21.0 | Yes, and then the next thing is if you haven't done this yet |
| 1:25.5 | You can go into trainer road if you use trainer road you can go into trainer road and go into your website on the website and |
| 1:31.8 | You can enable something it's called sports sink and you can enable |
| 1:35.4 | Sinking with Garmin and Strava or Garmin connect I should say in Strava and we highly recommend doing this because we have some exciting stuff |
| 1:42.2 | That's coming down the road. Yeah, good and do that now. Yes, and |
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