Coffee & Dehydration, Poor Sleep Quality, Getting Dropped, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 375
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🗓️ 4 August 2022
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Coach Jonathan is out on paternity leave, so the rest of the podcast crew will be hosting for the next month. Up first? Our very own Coach Chad! We’ll cover whether coffee drinkers should manage their hydration differently, whether recovery days hurt sleep quality, and why you are getting dropped even when you’re fit. Tune in to Episode 375 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast for discussions on these topics and much more!
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(4:28) Coach Chad's TdF 2022 Observations
(13:20) Should coffee drinkers hydrate differently
(26:15) Why are you getting dropped
(38:15) Do recovery days hurt sleep quality?
(52:40) When you do and don’t need to fuel workouts
(1:14:30) How to return to training when motivation is low
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone and welcome to another edition of the podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist trainer roads ask a cycling coach podcast |
| 0:08.8 | I am trainer roads head coach. He's called me Chad. You can call me coach Chad if you insist upon that but uh don't |
| 0:15.6 | Well, unformality and quite honestly. I've never really been comfortable with the moniker |
| 0:20.3 | I'm joined by a couple of co-hosts today first of which is the CEO with the big FTP and an even bigger heart |
| 0:27.1 | Nate Pearson |
| 0:29.3 | I'm very reluctant to be on the podcast today |
| 0:32.5 | Just easing into this is very weird for me. I've been through this so many times |
| 0:36.6 | My FTP is not high. It's very very small at the moment and Chad too. We should say Jonathan had uh |
| 0:42.3 | Oh no no no I'm gay. I'm getting to that. Yeah |
| 0:44.6 | No dude let me host |
| 0:46.6 | I'm just gonna lean back and let you do the smooth radio lines. Okay. Okay. This is gonna be interesting everyone |
| 0:52.2 | Mm-hmm a little bit. Okay. Also joining us uh you want a hater because she's faster than you |
| 0:58.2 | Because she's just so darn likable |
| 1:01.2 | Squid bikes ivy uddering. Yeah welcome ivy. My dad. Thank you. That's a nice. I should clap |
| 1:07.5 | And and ivy it's not a PB or an avic or anything like that. Is this squid bikes? Is that right? Yep. Squid bikes. Okay. Cool. Easy |
| 1:15.2 | Easy. Okay, so as as Nate just mentioned |
| 1:17.6 | Jonathan and his wife just welcomed a new baby girl into the world literally today |
| 1:23.2 | So we're gonna mix things up and each of us is gonna take turns hosting the podcast for better for worse. We'll see how it goes |
| 1:31.2 | Today I'm hosting and as such there are a couple rules or I guess requirements really |
| 1:37.6 | The first of which is that beer is mandatory |
| 1:40.0 | So if you guys need to run to the fridge run to the store. I'll wait |
| 1:43.6 | For a hotel, but they have a bar downstairs so I could go I could go get a beer if you guys want to pause the life stuff |
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