Cyclist Body Types, Descending, Training for Repeatability and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 277
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
How your body type and muscle fiber composition relates to your cycling training, improving your power and speed on descents, how to train for repeatability in races and more in Episode 277 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- How your body type relates to your cycling training
- How to train for repeatability in a race
- Adjusting your training when life gets stressful
- Improving your power and speed on descents
- How oval chainrings affect power meter readings
- The difference between a warm-up and an opener
- Why weightlifting can help your muscular endurance
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:07.6 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and today we have the three amigos. There's no amber. There's no Nate |
| 0:13.4 | Instead it is the true three amigos here. We have clip bar racing and trainer roads peep Morris |
| 0:19.0 | How's it going guys and we also have our of course our head coach had some room. What's up chat? |
| 0:24.4 | Everybody hi are we excited to have like the best podcast ever with us three right now. Yes, it's make it happen. It's gonna be great. Yes, definitely excited |
| 0:33.4 | And this is another way to phrase this is this is me with team thunder and honey from Cape Epic so |
| 0:39.9 | The team that |
| 0:43.2 | Easy on that |
| 0:45.2 | Great. Great. We're already going off the rails. So thanks for listening to the podcast everybody and tuning in on YouTube |
| 0:52.2 | If you're doing that right now, give us a thumbs up drop your comments into the chat join the chat |
| 0:56.3 | I'm sure you're planning on doing that. It's a ton of fun to have everybody in there and if you're just listening to this podcast |
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| 1:06.0 | That's really helpful for us |
| 1:07.6 | So you head over there and you're gonna be able to find strength training calculators plan builder all that stuff |
| 1:12.6 | So you can send your friends that way and they can check out why you are so fast |
| 1:16.7 | Of course, don't worry. You think that that's gonna make them as fast as you but everyone will increase together |
| 1:22.3 | So don't worry rising tide |
| 1:24.2 | Okay, with that just a couple of things before we get into getting to everything now |
| 1:28.4 | Speaking about training with your friends group workouts if you go over to Nate's Instagram or our Instagram |
| 1:33.0 | Just follow us at trainer road or Nate is TR dot Nate on Instagram |
| 1:37.2 | He always shares the workouts that he's doing every week |
| 1:39.8 | So he's not here this week and next week he'll be I think back to the training grind |
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