Do 30/30s Make You Slower, Rest vs. Taper Weeks, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 453
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 14 December 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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(0:00) Welcome!
(0:20) Hannah Otto’s most crazy race experience yet
(15:24) How to race without pressure but still get the best out of yourself
(24:41) Are 30/30s making you slower?
(34:08) How to know if you should do more or less intensity
(47:24) Do pro cyclists do reflex training?
(56:57) The use of PEDs in sports to improve reflexes and focus
(1:10:26) The roles of gratitude and comparison in training and racing
(1:17:12) Why don’t rest weeks look like taper weeks?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Asco Cycling Coach Podcast presented by trainer road. |
| 0:03.0 | Today we're going to talk about one of your favorite V.O.2 max workouts and if they are making you slower, |
| 0:07.0 | maybe if there's like an opportunity cost. |
| 0:10.0 | That's our CEO, Nate Pearson. |
| 0:12.0 | We also have Ventum Bikes Ivy |
| 0:13.4 | Adrain and trainer roads Ivy Adrain of course with us. Check out Ivy all over our |
| 0:16.9 | Instagram, Tik-Tok, YouTube. It's pretty great. And we also have Hannah |
| 0:20.3 | Auto, Hannah, you're fresh off the plane from not fresh off but you just came back from |
| 0:25.4 | La Ruda the most one of the most famous stage races did you see a Python like we were |
| 0:30.7 | fearing you would see in a river when you were crossing it. |
| 0:33.3 | I'm kind of disappointed. I did not see a python. But I was affirmed that they are there |
| 0:40.9 | because people sent me photos from last year of like these huge pythons in the rivers with people |
| 0:47.5 | walking across rivers so no pythons but I saw a lot of animals while I was there so I'm pretty pumped. |
| 0:53.4 | This is the Costa Rica one? |
| 0:55.4 | Yeah, yeah in Costa Rica. |
| 0:57.4 | So La Ruda, it's a three day stage race across Costa Rica this year. |
| 1:02.0 | It started at the Caribbean and ended at the |
| 1:04.0 | Pacific. And you had a great ride. You did great. Yeah it was amazing. It was an |
| 1:09.5 | absolutely incredible experience. I it far and away exceeded my expectations. My goal |
| 1:15.9 | was really just to go there to experience it because it is such a legendary race and |
| 1:20.7 | you know this race it felt like it was it was just for me like it was just |
| 1:26.2 | something that I wanted to do and I think as professional athletes it's still |
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