Detraining, Is Recovery Trainable, Mental Health and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 293
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 15 January 2021
⏱️ 136 minutes
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Summary
How quickly do you lose fitness and how quickly does it come back, do you get better at recovering as your training experience increases, how to improve your mental relationship with cycling and much more in Episode 293 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Coach Chad’s 2021 New Year’s Resolutions
- Do you get better at recovering with more training experience?
- Why riding singletrack can be surprisingly tricky
- How to balance interval training with skills training
- The Science of Getting Faster podcast
- Should you do long rides on the weekends?
- How to fuel during threshold intervals?
- What to do if you’ve failed a ramp test
- How much do you have to train to maintain fitness?
- Does fitness actually come back quickly?
- How to improve your mental relationship with sport
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RESOURCES AND STUDIES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7740244/
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236590070_Detraining
- https://www.jsams.org/article/S1440-2440(05)80042-8/pdf
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.2165/00007256-200030030-00001
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10966148/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10999420/
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1724429/
- https://www.trainerroad.com/blog/minimum-effective-dose-how-much-should-you-train-to-get-faster/
- https://www.trainerroad.com/app/cycling/workouts/363858-dardanelles-2
- https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/japplphysiol.00636.2019
- https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jgs.13365
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31027172/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road coach Jonathan |
| 0:07.0 | Lee we have trainer road in canondales amber peers good morning everyone our head coach Chad Timmerman is back |
| 0:13.7 | Hi |
| 0:19.6 | No, it's been a while and of course we also have orange seal and specialized Alex wild. What's up Alex? You know |
| 0:25.3 | Excited to have this crew have we ever had this this quartet here between the four of us. I'm not sure we have I think |
| 0:32.4 | Chad's trying to avoid me |
| 0:35.0 | It's strategically |
| 0:40.7 | Well welcome to the podcast where we answer the questions that you've submitted every week you can do so at trainer road.com slash podcast |
| 0:46.6 | We received a bunch from this week. We received a ton keep it going whatever questions you have |
| 0:51.0 | Whether the rapid fire fun questions whether the questions about your performance or an upcoming goal how to train anything like that |
| 0:58.1 | Just set them over trainer road.com slash podcast and within that as well. I also want to mention |
| 1:02.6 | a successful athletes podcast if you've used trainer road in any way to accomplish anything and this doesn't have to be some big |
| 1:08.8 | Feet you should go to trainer road.com slash |
| 1:11.9 | SAP and if you go there you'll be able to submit your story |
| 1:15.0 | You'll be able to find out information about the successful athletes podcasts listen to the latest episode and do all that stuff |
| 1:20.3 | So please do that. We need as many applicants as possible all the time for that as I'm scheduling things out months in advance |
| 1:26.5 | So please do that and please share your story. I want to hear it. We all want to hear it |
| 1:30.2 | That podcast has been people are loving it and it's picking up a ton of steam |
| 1:34.1 | We had an episode with |
| 1:36.1 | Edgar pura from Estonia. He's the Estonian |
| 1:39.4 | Erin Estonian Elite National Champion an age group national champion for time trials and he's a triathlete |
| 1:44.4 | So he's just flexing on everybody |
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