Cramping, Sodium, Women's Hydration with Precision Hydration's Andy Blow – Ask a Cycling Coach 260
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
Precision Hydration's Andy Blow joins the podcast this week to discuss all things hydration, including dealing with muscle cramps, balancing your sodium levels, women's specific hydration and more in Episode 260 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- About Andy Blow and How Precision Hydration started
- How to increase your sweat rate if needed for your event
- Properly loading your body with sodium and electrolytes before an event
- How much salt should an athlete be getting in their diet
- What do the salt stains on your clothes after exercise mean?
- Sodium and hydration requirement differences for indoor vs outdoor workouts
- The effect of dousing yourself with water during exercise
- Why do cramps happen and what we can do to prevent them
- The role of sodium in cramping
- Women's specific practices for proper hydration
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Coach Jonathan here with a quick announcement before this podcast. |
| 0:03.6 | We were actually starting a brand new podcast that will run in parallel to the Asuka |
| 0:07.4 | Cycling Coach podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | It's called the Successful Athletes Podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | It's where we interview athletes that have done something particularly interesting, |
| 0:14.1 | noteworthy or achieved some sort of feats on the bike. |
| 0:17.9 | That could be winning a race or it could just be achieving a PR or doing something else |
| 0:22.5 | that's extraordinary in some way. |
| 0:24.5 | We're going to interview these people, dig into their preparation and how they executed |
| 0:28.4 | on the big day or throughout that process or whatever it may be to learn how we can |
| 0:33.1 | become faster cyclists and multi-sport athletes as a result. |
| 0:36.9 | Stay tuned for that. |
| 0:38.1 | You'll see more episodes coming up from this this week. |
| 0:40.2 | We've already recorded one and we gave you that sample on the last episode here. |
| 0:43.7 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:45.1 | You'll have a new podcast to subscribe to and we will have weekly episodes with athletes |
| 0:49.1 | doing incredible things. |
| 0:51.2 | Stay tuned for that and for now, enjoy this podcast with Andy Blow of Precision Hydration. |
| 0:56.6 | It's an awesome one. |
| 0:59.2 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:00.2 | It's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist, the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented |
| 1:04.2 | by trainer road on coach Jonathan Lee and we have a special episode today. |
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