Attacking Like a Pro, Easy Sweetspot Work, Supplements & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 141
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
What most people don't understand about attacks, how to make Sweetspot work easier, supplements for cyclists & more in this episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• (9:30) The best way to ease into long intervals
• (15:00) How early should you start pre-race nutrition?
• Are attacks more mental than physical?
• How to carry more corner speed
• How to pick races that make you faster
•(30:40) How to time nutrition with racing
• What type of food is best before a race?
• (40:35) Why VO2max intervals are more complex than you think
• (43:30) How the same workout can deliver different benefits
• (45:25)How to warm up for a sprint triathlon
• (53:00) How to pace a time trial
• How to train for short time trials
• (1:00:00) How to use your power meter and smart trainer
• (1:06:10) Are anti-oxidants bad for cyclists?
• (1:12:40)How much water is needed to store glycogen
• (1:14:10) Why cyclists shouldn't take creatine
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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 |
| 0:05.6 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:10.2 | Hello, and we are going to answer more of those cycling and triathlon related questions today |
| 0:14.0 | And you can submit them to us at trainer road calm slash podcast |
| 0:17.4 | We will read all of the questions that are submitted every week |
| 0:20.0 | We'll go through them and then we put together the best conglomerate or best |
| 0:24.2 | Mashing together of questions if you feel like makes for some interesting and informative discussion for you all |
| 0:29.1 | Before we get into that though, we had a product release this week. It was pretty exciting stuff |
| 0:33.8 | Yep, this isn't the one we've been teasing, but now when you finish a ride and when it goes to Strava the image of the ride will be uploaded |
| 0:41.8 | Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah, it's nice. The thing that's cool about it is |
| 0:46.2 | when |
| 0:47.6 | When you're doing an interval and you know that people are gonna see it afterwards |
| 0:51.3 | You're much less likely to bail early. Yeah, yeah, so that's cool |
| 0:55.1 | And you get to see it compared to what you're supposed to do right whereas before like you might be able to drill into the ride and actually see what they did and |
| 1:01.4 | It was to look at their power graph now. It's front and center. Yep, so we are we all it's not just us three that have to watch our pees and cues now |
| 1:09.6 | The next thing I wanted to say is the podcast is now on Spotify as well |
| 1:13.2 | So you can look that up on Spotify and listen after the fact |
| 1:16.8 | It's not live on Spotify, but you can listen after the fact you can share them |
| 1:20.4 | You can follow us there and then you'll get notified every time it just kind of sets up right there |
| 1:25.4 | So that's in your feed and Spotify, which is pretty handy to have |
| 1:27.9 | So if you don't like using podcast apps you could always use Spotify as well |
| 1:31.3 | How do you find it on Spotify if you just look for ask a cycling coach or if you look for trainer road |
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