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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Ask a Cycling Coach: 94 – TrainerRoad Podcast

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.94.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

• DEXA vs. BodPod • Knee pain rehabilitation for cyclists • Coach Chad is going to The Giro! • Is lactate a myth? • What causes pain during a hard effort? • Is it more important to hit your power goals, or stay in aero position? • How to train indoors in a hot environment • Should you wait to take an FTP test after rehabbing from an injury? • Do smart trainers measure power differently than power meters? • Should triathletes train like roadies in the off season? • How to balance massive weekend rides/races with a training plan

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast. It's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ASCA cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road

0:05.7

I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timmerman. Hi everybody our CEO Nate Pearson

0:10.4

Hello, we're going to answer more of your cycling and traffic on related questions today

0:14.2

You can submit them at trainer road calm slash podcast before we get into that

0:19.0

We just wanted to go over something we had people writing in about recently

0:24.1

We talked about our dexascans and that's where it's a it's a body fat scan

0:28.1

We've talked about that duel x-ray. It's able to scan lean mass and then get or actually I should say it's able to pick up fat

0:35.6

Right and the all the fat on your body and also it gives you a read out of that

0:40.4

Somebody mentioned that in certain states Utah is one of them that it actually you have to have a prescription to get a dexascan kind of crazy

0:47.3

huh?

0:47.8

So certain states are you have to have a prescription in Nevada. We're lucky. We don't have to which is pretty nice

0:54.5

They also I had one or two people actually recommend

0:58.5

Bod pod or ask if bod pod was the same thing

1:01.4

Basically, that's a pressure chamber that you sit in and they say that it's a replacement for dexascans

1:07.5

Basically the same thing and it actually isn't so it uses pressure

1:11.8

to and variable pressure to be able to figure out your fat mass and your lean mass

1:16.9

It's a pressurized chamber you sit in but the thing is it doesn't give you a report that breaks down limb by limb and like your

1:24.4

Android and gynoid regions into quadrants it doesn't break all of that down and show you lean mass and fat mass in those areas

1:30.4

And that's something that we really like about the dexascans is the fact that we can see where the changes happening

1:35.8

What exactly is happening instead of just having an overall number because for just an overall number those teneta scales

1:41.1

We've found the bf6840 w I believe is the one yeah, it's like 50 bucks and it works really well

1:47.9

so that would give you more or less the same data

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