Ask a Cycling Coach: 061 - TrainerRoad Podcast – Special Guest: Matt Lieto

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

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🗓️ 12 October 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Professional Triathlete and IRONMAN commentator Matt Lieto. • How to go from average joe to pro triathlete • What type of power it takes to win an IRONMAN • How to pace a triathlon • Do triathletes use elevation training? • How to train for hot weather • How to acclimatize yourself to Kona • How to control your appetite • How to lose weight quickly • How to keep weight off • Tips to overcome food temptations • How to know if you've tapered correctly • What the pros do to taper • High intensity training for ultra-endurance athletes • Managing distractions at a big race • How to stay focused building up to race day • What type of accommodations are best when traveling to a race • Is carb loading best? • How to manage gluten intolerance while traveling • What should you eat before a race or big day of training • Triathlon bike tactics • Triathlon drafting rules explained • Do triathletes actually draft? • How to use drafting rules against your competition • Why you should attack and change your pace in a triathlon • How to deal with cross winds on a TT bike • How to pace yourself on climbs and hills in a triathlon • Are descending skills important for triathlon? • How to increase your efficiency on the bike • Marginal gains to maintain speed on the bike • What mountain bikers and IRONMAN athletes have in common • How triathletes use mental tactics to influence a race • Is it better to go easy on the bike or go hard on the bike? • Ideal gearing for triathlon • How to read wind conditions and use them to your advantage • How to know when to favor power and when to favor aerodynamics • How to manage heat on race day • Do saunas help performance? • How triathletes can benefit from mountain biking • Should triathletes do cyclocross? • What triathletes should do in transition • How to catch a bike

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Asuka Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road and we are here in Kona.
0:05.7	Woo-hoo!
0:06.3	Yeah, yeah, it's really hot in the humid for us up in the dry desert and our guest is used to that
0:12.2	dry either heat or cold too. Matliato, what's up Matt?
0:15.8	I am, yeah it's good to be here and good to be sweating for once.
0:19.3	Yeah and we have our head coach Chad Timberman with us.
0:22.0	Hey everybody.
0:22.8	And also our CEO Nate Pearson.
0:25.4	And today much like we talked about with the Cliff Bar team about crit racing,
0:31.1	Matt has had a long and successful career in draft on.
0:35.2	Yeah really impressive stuff.
0:36.9	I mean everything from wildflower to all over the place you've had success at a bunch of
0:41.2	different races.
0:41.8	So the half here a few times right?
0:43.2	Yeah, yeah, I put him here at Honeau a couple times and raised on this course as a pro for
0:47.3	the Iron Man as well so yeah, been around.
0:49.2	Awesome and the story that most people are that you see a lot of the time with you is about your
0:54.2	weight loss that you had and how that it was a huge transformation for you and how you ended up
1:00.8	going from the guy that in fact I read you were trying to catch somebody to hand off water when
1:06.5	they were in the run and they had already of course swam and biked and you were trying to catch
1:10.5	them to give them water and you couldn't do it and you're like that's enough right?
1:13.0	Yeah pretty much.
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