Cryotherapy, Dehydration, Low Heart Rate, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 368
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🗓️ 16 June 2022
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Cryotherapy is a recovery modality that is gaining popularity, but what does science say about its effectiveness? We’ll cover this as well as a look into scientifically-backed hydration strategies, what low heart rate means during races, and more.
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(0:49) Keegan’s Unbound Experience
(04:12) Does cryotherapy make you faster?
(31:51) Why do I have low heart rate during intense races?
(42:34) How to return to training after time off
(52:10) How Keegan fueled at Unbound Gravel
(01:08:23) Scientific hydration recommendations
(01:20:09) Is there benefit to perfectly steady intervals?
(01:28:16) An alternative progressive training strategy?
(01:30:57) Live Questions
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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 |
| 0:05.4 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee back with us again. Congratulations. A married man coach Chad Timberman |
| 0:10.9 | Hi everybody good to have you here Chad good to be here you look a you look exceptionally happy right now. It's good to have you |
| 0:18.9 | Pretty happy. Yeah, yeah, and then we also I don't think we've ever had this combo |
| 0:22.6 | Just one other person here joining us. We have Santa Cruz hit squads Keegan Swenson. It's up Keegan |
| 0:27.2 | Hey guys |
| 0:28.2 | Your back up in the mountains no more Tucson. I know I'm back. I'm excited. It feels good to be back in the thin air |
| 0:34.9 | Yeah, actually I we're just gonna get straight into like training advice and questioning right now |
| 0:39.2 | Are you taking a few days? |
| 0:41.2 | Like to get back into training because of the altitude or did you take a few days just because you've recently done on bound |
| 0:47.8 | So you're really not like you know hammering it with training. How did you respond to the altitude change considering you've grown up a whole life? |
| 0:54.4 | Yeah, um last week was pretty easy. We were moving kind of back moving back to Tucson and took a few days chill just hanging out right the ebike and |
| 1:03.4 | Hang out a bit and then this week's just kind of mellow volume to kind of ease back into training and the altitude at the same time |
| 1:09.6 | Normally the altitude doesn't bother me too much coming back up from Tucson |
| 1:14.4 | But it is nice to still kind of east back into a little bit |
| 1:17.4 | You don't want to go straight into intervals at least because give myself a weaker so to adjust |
| 1:21.1 | Yeah, yeah, for sure are you still gonna keep your FTP the same that it wasn't to you son out of stubbornness? |
| 1:27.5 | Yes, it is the same |
| 1:29.5 | Because altitude isn't real |
| 1:31.5 | Just ride into it |
| 1:33.5 | I like it so you'll just get faster. Yeah good approach. Yeah close enough. Yeah, there we go |
| 1:39.2 | It's like an FTP test to just force yourself in the altitude and keep doing it and just you know keep exactly there |
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