Burning Fat, Testosterone, Coach Chad's Booklist and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 167
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2018
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Every cyclist wants to burn fat, but it's more complicated than low intensity riding. Join us live for deep dives on fat burning, testosterone in cycling, and Chad's favorite books in this episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
How to burn fat with cycling
What is “spot-burning” for fat?
What is the difference between visceral and subcutaneous fat
Why food matters more than training for fat burning
What role intensity plays in losing weight
How insulin and sugar affect fat loss
Why athletes have a surprisingly complex time with weight control
Testosterone and cyclists
Is hormone replacement therapy banned for cyclists?
Why taking testosterone is cheating
Natural ways to increase testosterone production
What effect sleep has on testosterone
Should cyclists always avoid weight gain?
How cyclists can ad weight that helps make them faster
Why cyclists should strength train
Why sugary drinks can be bad for cyclists
The difference between hydration during a race and recovery
What is osmolality and why you should keep track of it
Which nutrition products optimize hydration
How mountain bikers can improve their pacing
Why mountain bike races start so hard
How to train your body to start races hard
Coach Chad's favorite books
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist that asks a cycling coach podcast |
| 0:04.8 | presented by a trainer road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timmerman |
| 0:08.7 | everybody our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello. This is where we answer those cycling and |
| 0:12.3 | traffic unrelated questions that you have submitted to trainer road.com slash podcast. And you can |
| 0:16.8 | do so at any point throughout the week. I'll read through every one of those questions and then |
| 0:20.4 | we put them together in a list of questions that we want to answer or feel that we can answer |
| 0:25.0 | that would provide you guys with information and also some sort of entertainment. It's pretty hard |
| 0:29.8 | to be entertaining. We're not exactly not show ponies over here, but just pretty good |
| 0:34.1 | job every now and again. Thank you. So if you are listening to us on whatever podcast app, |
| 0:41.6 | welcome glad to have you here. If you we have folks that are joining us live as well, you can |
| 0:45.7 | join us live every Thursday at 8 a.m. Pacific. And you can join us on Facebook or YouTube by doing |
| 0:50.9 | that. We have a number of folks joining us right now. They're sending in live questions that we |
| 0:55.2 | then answer after we record the podcast. We have kind of like a behind the scenes fun Q&A. |
| 0:59.5 | So you can join us live if you want to for that. And with that, I guess we should kick things off |
| 1:06.0 | really quick. The first thing we have something that I should say the podcast group on Facebook, |
| 1:13.4 | you can join that the ask a cycling coach podcast Facebook group. You can look up on there. We |
| 1:18.2 | have a bunch of stuff. A huge amount of questions the other day I was looking at it this week. We get |
| 1:21.7 | somewhere around like 20 questions a day that are put in through there from different people. |
| 1:26.3 | And then everybody chimes in and you know provides their thoughts on it. It's pretty interesting |
| 1:30.4 | stuff. There's a forum then. There is something I'd like people to answer. There's a survey in |
| 1:35.0 | there about how to no, that's actually in the beta group. So this is all gets confusing. I know |
| 1:41.0 | that's why we need to just consolidate. But there's a trainer road beta group on Facebook. And inside |
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