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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Ask a Cycling Coach: 86 – TrainerRoad Podcast

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.94.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

• Is it normal to have your wheel lift off the ground in a sprint? • Should you buy a used power meter? • Are dropper posts beneficial for road riding? • What sports drinks have low sodium? • How much sodium should your drink mix have? • Should you focus on your strengths or weaknesses? • What are "limiters"? • How to train for punchy road races • The best way to train for 2017 USAC Road National Championships • Is it a good idea to do hard efforts at the beginning or the end or a long ride? • Is road riding good training for mountain bikers? • How to best train for mountain biking • What crank length is best? • What should you know before you change your crank length • How to know if you are fatigued, ill, or training too hard • Our best descending tips for road racing

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cyclist coach podcast

0:05.2

Coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson

0:09.8

Hello, and we are here to answer more of your cycling and traffic on related questions today

0:14.3

You can submit them to us at trainer row dot com slash podcast

0:17.9

We comb through them we put them into a list and then we answer them here for you every week

0:23.6

We don't have any any house cleaning items take care of beforehand

0:27.4

So let's jump straight into the questions. This is kind of a fun one because I've I've dealt with this

0:31.8

I'm sure you guys have to but from Luis. He says hey guys love the podcast and love the product

0:36.5

Just finished sweet spot base one mid volume and I'm already seeing huge improvements good to hear Luis

0:41.5

Keep it up. He says I was wondering if you guys have ever dealt or heard of rear wheel hop while hard while sprinting hard

0:49.0

It happens to me and I'm hoping to fix it could it be correct or could it be incorrect body positioning incorrect pedaling poor bike fit

0:56.3

Thanks for your help if you guys ever had problem with wheel hop the rear wheel hopping up in a sprint. Yep

1:02.3

Are we talking on a trainer or outdoors outdoors? Oh, yeah, yeah

1:05.7

I mean if you're pulling up the rear wheel on a trainer

1:09.1

You've got some serious strength. No, I have an only front wheel

1:11.7

I pulled the front wheel off the ground a few times on the train rear wheel

1:15.2

Not on the bike outside. Oh, it's time outside. Yes. Yeah, no, I haven't you've never pulled the rear wheel up

1:21.2

And you've pulled the front. Oh, yeah

1:24.8

Dive into it kind of like a BMX hard start sort of thing. He has someone

1:28.1

Out of the gate pulls wheelies and a sprint

1:30.8

Back and do it

1:32.8

I've told the experiences you two Nate. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, um, you're sprinting and

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