Crank Length, Achieving Mastery, DOMS and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 287

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

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🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

What is the best crank length for cycling and how does it affect your power, how to achieve mastery of cycling skills and is muscle soreness a requirement for effective strength training. All this and more in Episode 287 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE

How to know which skills to focus on
• How to achieve mastery of a skill
How to set effective goals
• Insider tips to getting the most from TrainerRoad
• How to measure your improvement with TrainerRoad
• Is DOMS necessary to get benefit from strength training?
Does crank length matter?
What crank length is best?
• How crank length affects your power output
• How to pick the right crank length
• Does mountain biking make you a faster road cyclist?
• How COVID-19 has made us faster cyclists
• Endurance training with limited time
• Saddle bag or no saddle bag?
• How to measure distance for indoor cycling
• Why ramp tests use steps
• Cold weather cycling tips

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RESOURCES AND STUDIES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

- https://www.trainerroad.com/blog/a-conversation-about-bike-fit-with-dr-andy-pruitt/
- https://www.trainerroad.com/blog/calories-and-power/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the Asuka cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road
0:05.6	This is episode 287 or gonna answer more of your cycling and traffic on related questions today that you've submitted at trainroad.com
0:12.4	Podcast with the original crew. We have trainer road and cannon dales amber piers morning everybody
0:18.6	We have our head coach Chad Timberman everyone and our CEO Nate Pearson hello
0:25.1	Chad how's the ankle can we start off with that? Yeah, it's
0:28.0	uh
0:28.9	Improving for sure it's not bleeding anymore, but it's still swollen and going for my first session of physical therapy today
0:36.4	I have five weeks basically to show that I can rehab it to a point where I don't require surgery
0:40.8	So I go back for a recheck in four weeks and at that time they'll decide whether or not surgery is necessary
0:46.5	Can you ride?
0:48.4	Yeah, I can I can't really press and getting out of the saddle is a little tenuous
0:52.8	So I try not to but but gets pretty sore especially when you're riding it low resistance, but yeah at least I'm on the bike
1:01.6	Hmm, this is kind of gonna cut into your ski season two jack. I know
1:05.0	I'm just banking on the fact that ski boots are super supportive. So I just need to get to a point
1:11.6	Don't like a cast right getting in and out of them
1:14.5	They are a cast. I should just put one of those on. I didn't even need to buy a food
1:17.8	I got a good point right
1:21.6	So like I mentioned you can submit questions at trainroad.com slash podcast
1:25.7	Thanks for doing that by the way we get so many of them we have a great selection this week
1:29.2	We're gonna talk about crank length going to a deep dive in that of sorts
1:32.8	We're gonna talk about doms and muscle growth and how they relate to each other
1:36.6	Healthy snacks tons of other stuff. So it'll be a good episode
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