Carb Cycling, Sweetspot Training, Masters VO2Max and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 255
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 148 minutes
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Summary
How to use carb cycling for endurance athletes, a deeper look into sweetspot training, how genetics and age affects performance and more in Episode 255 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- The effect of exercise on traumatic brain injury induced depression
- How to keep your training flexible with a busy schedule
- Training and dietary tips for junior riders
- Why too much sweet spot training won't ruin your sprint
- The effects of carbohydrate cycling during different training phases
- How genetics play a role in VO2 Max training for master aged athletes
- The coach's favorite type of interval workouts
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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 and you can see with us here on this Brady Bunch arrangement that we have on YouTube or if you're listening to the podcast |
| 0:12.1 | Down below me right here is coach Chad Timberman. How you doing Chad? |
| 0:16.0 | I'm doing well. Hi everybody and |
| 0:18.4 | Then we also have Amber all canondale and trainer roads and amber pierce. How you doing? |
| 0:24.2 | I'm doing great. Hi everyone and our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:28.7 | Hello, and we are actually live on YouTube right now for the first time and quite sometime and it's first time testing something else |
| 0:36.9 | So bear with us if there are any sort of |
| 0:39.2 | Issues or anything else that come through constant improvement will do better as it goes on |
| 0:43.2 | So don't worry about that. We're gonna answer more the cycling and travel on related questions |
| 0:47.8 | You submitted to us at trainer road.com slash podcast. Thank you so much for doing that and |
| 0:52.5 | We'll continue to constantly go through and read all those questions that you send to us and |
| 0:57.7 | Answer them every week. So we really do appreciate it. So first things first |
| 1:02.7 | We should probably mention if you are on YouTube right now and you are watching live giving this a thumbs up |
| 1:07.3 | I'll help a lot and then it'll make it so that other people can see this and also for listening to the podcast |
| 1:11.7 | Please share as well, but this week earlier on our YouTube channel |
| 1:15.6 | We did we launched a new feature which was ramp test for group workouts right Nate |
| 1:21.1 | We sure did it was fun. We've streamed it live on YouTube |
| 1:25.6 | Supposedly the sound was a little weird |
| 1:29.6 | After about 15 minutes in you should just watch and you'll understand |
| 1:40.6 | Not safe for work. Make sure you have your laptop open, but no one can see the screen and just pump the volume up |
| 1:48.0 | Just so everyone can experience what we experienced |
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