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

presented by trainer road coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman everybody and our

CEO Nate Pearson hello and we're going to answer more of those cycling and triathlon related

questions today you can submit them at trainer road calm slash podcast uh before we get into things

Chad your hat's uh very appropriate we've got a lot of things to talk about because he's got the

local racing organizations had on their Reno wheelman um we're going to talk about a bunch of uh

or a handful of things before we get into some questions that whether it be corrections or whether

it be uh things that we've learned from racing last night plenty of stuff we'll share all that

stuff uh but first Chad uh I think you wanted to talk about some of the end of ride sprints yeah

just just to wrap up something we talked about a couple weeks ago where someone was asking if it's

beneficial to finish a ride with hard efforts sprint efforts and I said certainly from a cycle

lot psychological perspective knowing that you can muster a really high intensity uh meaningful

sprint at the end of what would be an otherwise depleting ride and and I didn't really have any

physiological backup for it any reasons why you would want to train that way but I did come across

and uh studied by martin jibal a while back that talked about how you finish a ride can

can set off a different signaling cascade in terms of adaptive uh signals down at the genetic level

so so for instance if you do hard efforts at the beginning of a long ride and then you do a

couple hours of endurance all those uh signal all the signaling that was taking place all the the

genes that switched on after the sprints is long gone whereas if you finish that long ride with those

sprints those genes are switched on so you can get a slightly different adaptive effect depending

on how you close a ride so then everyone who does like their long ride a group ride it's kind of slow

in the end they sprint could that be kind of productive yeah and what they're going for I don't

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