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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Ask a Cycling Coach: 115 – More carbs = more speed, cold weather tips, power data from the pros

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.94.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

• How more carbohydrate actually improves performance
• Updated mobile apps!
• Depleted glycogen stores vs. skipping breakfast
• What it takes to win Park City Point 2 Point (beat the best XC racers in the country)
• Can CX training replace Base training?
• Is cold training as important/beneficial as heat training?
• Gear and strategies for cold weather riding
• What is muscle "activation"?
• Is smooth pacing in CX a bad idea?

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

0:05.5

I'm coach Jonathan Lee here with our head coach Chad Zimmerman

0:08.8

All right, buddy and our CEO Nate Pearson

0:10.8

Oh, and we are going to answer more of your cycling related questions today and triathlon and

0:16.4

Hopefully we'll anticipate some of them because we've got a lot of different items to cover too

0:20.7

The first one that we want to cover is once again letting everybody know we have a really cool live podcast

0:26.7

Recording event coming up. I say really cool. I don't know if that's necessary for me to say hopefully you'll just understand that by

0:32.9

Listening to us and wanted to come chat won't be there. So that's true. Actually. Yeah, so it won't be very cool

0:38.8

This will be dropped down now. It's gonna be a great time. We're gonna have Matt Fitzgerald author

0:44.9

Knowledge source on everything from

0:47.2

Nutrition to psychology and we're going to be focusing on the psychological

0:51.7

Contribution to performance in the context of cycling. So we're gonna be talking about the mental game in short and

0:57.0

It's gonna be really cool a deep dive of sorts and you can come to that podcast recording into the Rafa cycle club at San Francisco

1:04.5

on Saturday November 4th and you can ask your questions

1:08.6

You can see how great Nate and mine's hair is in real life. Here's as better than mine

1:13.8

I far but we are both way better than Chad

1:17.3

I've got a funny thing about mass Fitzgerald. Yeah, please. This is from his book

1:22.6

endurance diet, okay, and

1:24.6

This is just a one about motivation. It was it there with I'm reading excerpt from his book

1:29.5

This was one more fun thing about motivation. This was shown in a 2006 study in which recreational runners completed a 5k race

1:37.0

83 seconds faster on average drinking super oxygenated oxygenated water

1:42.6

And they did after drinking ordinary tap water

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