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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Ask a Cycling Coach: 113 – Different FTPs, bike fits, visualization and more!

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.94.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

• Live podcast recording at Rapha Cycle Club in San Francisco Nov. 4!
• Why Breck Epic is one of the hardest races in the world
• Nate's new approach to nutrition
• Should you have different FTPs for different circumstances?
• How focus and motivation can improve your performance
• Is visualization damaging or enabling?
• How to know if your helmet is ruined
• How bike fits work and how to pick the best one
• Do sugar coated pills hurt fasted training?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist that ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timberman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello, we're gonna answer more of your cycling and triathlon related questions today and you can submit them to us at trainer road calm slash podcast.

0:18.8

Before we get into things, we have something that's actually pretty freaking exciting to talk about very cool.

0:24.2

Yeah, the first live podcast recording in person will be happening will be doing it Saturday November 4th, 2017.

0:32.7

And it'll be on the west coast in the US here. It'll be at the Rafa cycle club in San Francisco.

0:38.3

And we're going to have a special guest with us. Matt Fitzgerald. We've talked about his book a lot.

0:44.4

Absolutely books. Yes, that's true. And we reference them regularly.

0:48.8

One book that we've talked about at length is how bad do you want it?

0:53.4

A personal favorite in mind. And it's a book that I give to cyclists a lot. And hopefully they don't judge me that I'm judging them for giving them that book.

1:00.3

But it's a really helpful book incredibly helpful.

1:03.4

He's not only a master on all things psychology in terms of performance on the bike.

1:08.9

But also, geez, even in terms of nutrition and everything else, he covers a lot of stuff.

1:13.3

So you can join us for that once again Saturday November 4th.

1:17.4

And we're also going to do a group ride after that.

1:19.6

We're going to head up to the Marin headlands. If it's not raining, we'll get in a tam climb there.

1:25.1

We might even take the dirt way up. We'll see.

1:27.3

I'm guessing all these cyclists when you get into a room and we're going to talk just about motivation and how bad you want it for like an hour.

1:34.4

And then jump on our bikes together.

1:35.9

You're going to be a rock group ride.

1:36.8

There's going to be some people. Yeah.

1:38.4

And especially people riding with us for the first time that might want to show us how strong they are.

1:42.8

Like, yeah, feel free.

1:45.2

Yeah, feel free.

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