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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Ask a Cycling Coach: 069 - TrainerRoad Podcast

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.94.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

• Can you replace a workout with a commute? • Does commuting count? • Does an espresso shot negatively impact my morning workout? • Are power zones different than heart rate zones? • Which is best, power or heart rate? • If you have to skip a workout, how do you choose which workout to skip? • Is it bad to train more than prescribed? • How to not get dropped • How to improve your climbing • Why do different apps give me different power readings? • How does TrainerRoad calculate Normalized Power (NP)? • How to do single leg drills without clipless pedals • Should you skip pedaling drills? • Are rollers bad for your training? • Which type of workouts should you do on rollers? • Bike setup changes that warrant a new FTP test • Fasted training explained • Should you eat sugar on every ride? • How to lose weight during base training

Transcript

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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

0:06.8

I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson

0:12.3

Hello, and we are here again to answer more of your coaching questions whether they be cycling our trough on related and you can send those to us at

0:20.0

trainer road calm slash podcast

0:23.1

We've got a lot of questions to go through this week guys

0:25.7

And a lot of people have been asking about which training plans to pick I don't want to talk about that yet and I yeah

0:31.1

I want to talk about pull pedal

0:35.0

Just because it's kind of fun. So I guess we technically didn't poach

0:40.3

Spin class competition. No, it's honest. So there was there is a

0:44.2

The place has been a spin business in Reno called full pedal and they have a

0:49.4

AC Shwin bikes and there's power meters. I'm using air quotes power meters on it and

0:54.5

They had a little Thanksgiving

0:56.5

competition teams of nine and

0:59.0

Whoever put out the most power had the farthest distance have this virtual distance kind of thing based on your weight and your power and whoever had the most

1:05.5

Killed jewels had this convoluted kind of formula to figure out who would win would win some little lemon stuff and the lemon sponsored it so

1:13.8

we

1:15.3

As trainer road, I felt it was our duty to win this competition and

1:19.9

So we we developed a

1:22.7

Highly stacked team Chad and Jonathan both Chad was out of town Jonathan was out. Yeah, my let's be clear here

1:31.0

Yeah, I don't know what you have and then you went for an outside ride instead no, I didn't ride at all

1:37.2

Oh, I thought you were out. No, heck no. No, if I could have ridden I would have been there

1:41.5

But there's no way I could do a 20 minute 3 20 3 15 minute efforts. I think so there was 15 minute efforts team and nine

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