Ask a Cycling Coach: 051 - TrainerRoad Podcast

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

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🗓️ 18 August 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

• Body fat analysis • How to measure your body composition • What is the best way to lose fat • How to lose fat and gain muscle • How do you compare to Chris Froome? • Chris Froome's VO2 Max, FTP and power to weight ratio • Does poor quality sleep affect performance? • Why measuring your training with mileage is pointless • What is the best way to measure your training • Why isn't your training plan making you faster? • What to do if you feel fatigued • Which earbuds / headphones are best for indoor training • Do aging athletes have to adjust their training plans? • How to adjust your training for your age • What does excessive salt buildup from sweat mean? • Are salty sweat stains bad? • How to use a smart trainer to warmup at a race • How do you know when to start a race hard or go easy? • Why positioning is so important in racing • What course features or characteristics make positioning critical • How to position yourself well in a race • How to pace after a hard start • Different ways to train for cyclocross

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast. It's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist. The Ask a cycling
0:04.8	coach podcast presented by trainer road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee and here with me this
0:10.1	week and as always is coach Chad Zimmerman. Hello. And our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello. And we
0:15.4	are here to answer more of your cycling and triathlon related questions. You can submit
0:19.8	them to us at trainerroad.com slash podcast or use the hashtag Ask Trainer Road. We come
0:26.4	through as many questions as we can find or as we get because we get plenty of them.
0:30.0	And then we put them into a list and hopefully yours gets answered. Go through as many as we can.
0:35.2	So let's get into it. But first things first before we get into to talk about our bodies.
0:40.4	Talk about our bodies. Let's talk about our bodies. The fat or lack thereof or presence there of
0:47.3	go ahead. So okay, so let me frame this whole thing. So we have been doing something called
0:52.2	a dexaboddy scan analysis and that what a dexab scan is is it's the gold standard for measuring
0:58.5	body fat on your body. And basically what they do is they shoot two different types of x-rays
1:04.0	through you. And based on how those go through your body, they can measure your body fat,
1:10.8	bone mass and muscle mass. And so we've been doing that since what February. And we've been trying
1:17.2	to keep it up every two months. I missed the last one. Yeah. So we've been waiting for Jonathan
1:21.0	and now we're just at screw Jonathan. And now Chad just told us he's never doing one again.
1:26.3	It's a lot of pressure. Thousands of people listen to how fat we are. Yeah, it is.
1:32.2	One second on that by the way, people are listening to that and following us, I got called out
1:37.3	the other day because I missed a workout on my training plan. Somebody on Strava was following
1:43.0	all the workouts I've done. They realized that I must be doing a specific plan which I was doing
1:47.6	in sweet spot based two. And then I got called out because I missed a workout. That was weird.
1:51.6	So Simon. Yeah, you guys are you guys. Simon's your new born. They really do care. They're paying
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