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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Ask a Cycling Coach: 003 – TrainerRoad Podcast

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.94.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

• How to incorporate weekend rides into a training plan • How to adjust your training if you're feeling tired • Which training plans to follow for multiple peaks • Why your threshold heart rate is different when running and cycling • Fast and slow twitch muscle fibers and long term changes • How to train for an Olympic distance Triathlon • How to adjust your training during recovery from an injury • How to become a better climber • Self-coaching vs. hired coaching • Back-to-back build plans • How to train for Race Across America (RAAM) • What to do in between training blocks • How to know how much time you should take off in the off season • How to use cyclocross as cross training • How to train for a Sportive or Gran Fondo • How to lose weight and manage Caloric deficits with cycling • How to pick a training plan and how power-to-weight ratios affect this • How to manage overuse knee injuries for cyclists

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the ASCA Cycling Podcast for the end of my trainer road for giving

0:04.8

me their ASCA Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road. I'm coach

0:08.2

Jonathan Lee and here with me is coach Chad Timmerman. How you doing Chad?

0:12.7

Doing well Jonathan. Thanks. Good to hear and also our CEO and founder Nate

0:18.4

Pearson is also here with us. Hi Nate. Hello. And we're going to go through a lot

0:24.0

of the questions that you guys have sent through since receiving the invite

0:27.1

for this podcast and also all the ones that you have live for us. So the way to

0:31.0

enter those in is to look at the questions panel within the go-to webinar

0:34.1

window or the chat panel and send sending your questions type them in. We'll

0:39.6

get to as many of them as we can and we'll provide any answers that you need.

0:43.6

Also if you are waiting for an answer on a question that you submitted

0:47.4

earlier and perhaps there's some additional information that we may not have

0:51.5

that may help us provide a better response feel free to type that in there as

0:54.9

well. That will help us answer these in a more complete manner so you get the

0:59.3

knowledge you need. So we'll go ahead and kick things off with Joe. Joe has a

1:03.3

number of questions and the first one goes as follows. How do I incorporate weekend

1:09.4

rides into one of your training plans? In general I can do a Monday Wednesday

1:13.4

Friday training and then ride a long ride on Sunday. However if I do that ride

1:18.5

on Sunday a couple of times a month I'm generally too exhausted on Monday to

1:22.7

start training again. Should I just move that Monday training to next Wednesday

1:26.9

for example and just shift? What do you think Chad? Yeah I think what's

1:32.2

important to understand here Joe is that these training plans are malleable and

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