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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Ask a Cycling Coach: 033 - TrainerRoad Podcast

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.9 β€’ 4.6K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

– How does speed relate to FTP – Is speed better than heart rate? – Is speed better than power? – Is heart rate better than power? – How to use your power meter indoors – How to use your power meter and electronic trainer – Is it normal to have power data fluctuate? – How do you know if you're doing VO2 intervals? – How to perform high intensity workouts – How to do a VO2 Max workout – How to warmup before a race – Criterium warmups – Mountain Bike warmups – Cyclocross warmups – How to adjust your training plan – How to train when injured

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast. It's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist. The Ask a cycling

0:04.9

coach podcast presented by trainer road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee and with me as always

0:10.0

is coach Chad Timmerman. Hello. And our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello. And this is where you

0:16.9

get your chance to ask your coaching questions, whether they're cycling or triathlon related

0:22.5

and they don't even have to be coaching related. Whatever questions you have about training

0:26.1

cycling, triathlon, whatever they may be, we'll do our best to answer them. And you

0:30.1

can submit those to us at trainer road.com slash podcast. There's a form on there where

0:35.1

you can fill out your questions. You can see other questions we've answered. Listen to

0:38.4

the latest episode. Check everything out there. You can also find this podcast on iTunes,

0:43.6

Stitcher or whatever other podcasting app you use. And you can also leave us a review

0:47.8

on there. Give us five stars. We love that. Or however many stars you feel is merited,

0:52.7

we feel like we deserve five, right? It's less than five. You can email Jonathan at trainer

0:57.9

road.com. Tell them why you gave out my email. It's not all right. That's true. It's

1:04.5

pretty straightforward. All right. So let's kick things off. Actually this week with Ray's

1:10.7

question, it's from Twitter. He used the Ask trainer road hashtag. And that's another way

1:15.4

you can ask us questions on Twitter or Instagram. Just hashtag asks trainer road. And we can

1:21.0

see it there. And that keeps it to 140 characters, which surprisingly enough guys, you can get

1:26.0

across quite a lot in 140 characters. So Ray's question, he says, why isn't speed considered

1:31.9

when talking about power and FTP? I can hold 300 watts all day at 10 miles an hour, but

1:38.4

at race speed, only 158 watts. So that's a little crazy difference in the wattage. I'd

1:49.2

be curious to see what power meter. But in general, speed is the output of like is the result

1:54.9

of your power. So this goes back to like high school physics or college physics wherever

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