Ask a Cycling Coach: 049 - TrainerRoad Podcast

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

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🗓️ 5 August 2016

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

– How to figure out your power zones – How to figure out your heart rate zones – Are your heart rate zones accurate? – How to get started with structured training – How do you know if you have enough base fitness? – How to train for cyclocross – Best training plan for cyclocross – Should you train for running if you're racing cyclocross? – What is CTL? – What is TSB? – How to measure your training load, fitness and fatigue – How to taper for a century – How to train for a gran fondo – Why triathletes need VO2 max training – How to use high intensity training for triathletes – How to use ramp tests to understand your performance – How to perform a ramp test – How to power the KICKR remotely – Is pedal smoothness important? – Why pedal drills matter – How to know if you have a bad pedal stroke – How to train for time trials – Low volume training plans: how to use them in race season – How to time your cyclocross training for a long season – How does fasted training work? – Is it important to eat before an indoor workout? – How to know if you're a sprinter – How many watts is a good sprint? – Sprint race strategy – What to do in order to be a better sprinter – How to win races if you're not a good sprinter

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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
0:06.0	I'm coach Jonathan Lee and with me today is our head coach Chad Timmerman
0:11.4	Hi everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson
0:13.7	Hello, and we are going to answer more of your coaching questions today
0:17.1	You can submit them to us using the hashtag ask trainer road or just directly to us at trainer road comm slash podcast
0:24.7	So let's get straight into it today
0:27.7	Let's see well actually before we get into it. I should probably admit to you guys so a few weeks ago
0:34.1	I told you my grand plan just cut to the chase who was right?
0:37.4	Jonathan has a confession. Yes, who was right and who's wrong coach Chad was right. I was very wrong. I think I was right
0:43.0	Yeah, yeah, you were too. Yeah, but here's the here's what I'm getting at coach Chad is usually right so
0:50.1	Whenever I think I have this plan so basically a few weeks ago
0:53.9	I said I'm gonna train three times a day because baby we have a new baby in the home splitting it up in between
1:00.2	Naps and everything else I couldn't get out for an extended ride and I figured I would try to chop up all that time
1:05.9	That I do plan to spend training just into smaller chunks and it wasn't working from a logistical perspective
1:11.3	But also I wasn't getting the improvements that I wanted to see
1:14.6	so I
1:16.6	All I ended up doing was just following our training plans and that is working famously
1:21.3	Every time that's like the three is way harder than one
1:24.7	It was just the setup and tear down that was the hard thing was every time I would have a window
1:29.4	I'd be getting kidded or getting ready and then the baby would cry and it wouldn't be able to do it or it would get cut short because of that
1:36.5	It's just it was really tough
1:38.5	The three-in-post actually adds up so when you do it three times a day
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