Cross-Training, Raising Power While Dropping Weight and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 325

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

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🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Cross-training is not usually considered as necessary for cyclists, but should it be? We’ll cover the science of cross-training, how to raise power while dropping weight and much more in this episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE

- TrainerRoad launched a Free Trial!
- How to raise power while losing weight
- Why some athletes drop power while losing weight
- The science behind cross-training and why cyclists should do more of it
- Rapid Fire questions
- How to level up your sprint skills in a week
- Is pre-workout weight training a way to get more adaptations?
- Is it better to focus on the effort or distract yourself?

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Coach Jonathan here before we get in today's episode, I have a very special
0:04.2	announcement for all of you. Today, we have launched a free trial here at Trainer Road. What that
0:08.8	means is that anybody gets to try Trainer Road free for seven days and you can try absolutely
0:14.0	everything within the Trainer Road system. So that means yes, you can even try Adaptive Training
0:18.6	free, totally obligation free and free of cost for seven days. Don't have to enter your credit
0:23.1	card info, anything else. You can go over to trainerroad.com and sign up right now, give Adaptive
0:28.0	Training a try for free. It's super exciting and all the other features calendar, training plans,
0:32.9	all that stuff. So go check it out. Go to trainerroad.com, go sign up and please tell all your friends
0:37.9	who've been on the fence and maybe you've wanted to suggest maybe than thinking about Trainer Road
0:42.5	but haven't jumped on yet. Go tell them now because they can do it free of cost for the free
0:47.0	with the free trial. So thanks everybody and without further ado, let's get to this episode.
0:51.7	Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist, the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast
0:56.3	presented by trainer road and joined by our head coach Chad Timberman. Everybody. And also
1:03.1	gosh, I swear it's a mental thing. I crack on this every time. Hand up plus the black bibs,
1:08.2	racing's IVA drain. Nice. You got it. It's fun. I started speaking. I almost laughed because I was
1:15.9	like, oh no, we didn't we didn't do the team name review. He's gonna mess it up.
1:20.8	You know, it's like one of those things that you can absolutely do it, but you have so much anxiety
1:25.1	without messing up over that one thing that you just screw yourself up every time and that's it.
1:29.9	But I'm glad I nailed it. It's exciting because you're getting ready for cycle cross racing. It's
1:34.0	starting. Yeah, I'm flying out to a little UCI block tomorrow morning going to go cross in
1:40.9	Rono, Virginia and then up to Rochester, New York and then over to Trum City, Baltimore. Try to
1:47.6	get some points, baby. That's exciting. If you're at those races and you see IV high fives, hand
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