Crushing Long Climbs, Sleep, Training Timing and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 356
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 24 March 2022
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
Amber Pierce and Alex Wild join Coach Jonathan for a guide on how to crush long climbs, sleep’s effect on training adaptations, and whether it matters if you train at a specific time of day with consistency. Tune in and share this episode with your friends!
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(4:25) Does training time consistency matter?
(22:17) Pacing marathon MTB and gravel courses like the Tahoe Trail 100
(46:33) Rapid Fire Questions
(01:10:13) How lack of sleep affects training adaptations
(01:33:18) The pro’s guide to crushing long climbs
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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 |
| 0:05.3 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee. We have with us canadael and trainer roads amber peers |
| 0:09.7 | Good morning everyone and we have ice friction specialized Alex wild |
| 0:14.6 | Hey everyone. It's just the three amigos today. Just us three. It's gonna be a good episode. I think I |
| 0:21.2 | Just came back from family vacation and I'm I'm like straight into it |
| 0:24.7 | So pardon me if we mess up, but we're gonna answer the questions that you submitted at trainer road calm slash podcast today |
| 0:30.2 | You can submit them every week and please do so but above all please share this podcast everybody if you're on Spotify |
| 0:36.7 | You can do that in two ways you can rate the podcast right there and |
| 0:40.3 | Rating is pretty new to Spotify so go over there and rate it so then you can give us five stars |
| 0:44.2 | That makes more people find the podcast hugely helpful |
| 0:46.7 | It also has a share button you can just hit the share button share it via Instagram stories message email |
| 0:51.6 | Any of the different apps WhatsApp whatever you use and you can just share it directly from there |
| 0:55.6 | So please share this episode with other people also in addition to this you can do the same thing on iTunes app or basically any other podcast app |
| 1:02.8 | You use so rate and share super appreciated |
| 1:05.3 | I wanted to share something that's pretty cool |
| 1:09.7 | From Jeff he's a listener he said not a question but more of a thanks |
| 1:13.3 | I listened to episode 354 today and there was a good segment about finding joy and workouts coming off the back of overunders |
| 1:19.3 | Maybe one of the hardest spots to find joy. He says I get it there rough definitely type two fun |
| 1:25.4 | I've been a long time user of trainer row with admittedly a one-year hiatus that proved not really effective to my training |
| 1:31.2 | This season when I heard about the introduction of adaptive training |
| 1:34.1 | I signed back on with interest in the new software and how it worked and safe to say it's worked very well for a number of reasons |
| 1:40.8 | Yes, I'm getting much more fit than probably ever and training more consistently than ever |
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