Does Bonking Make You Faster, Making VO2max Easy, and More - Ask a Cycling Coach 390
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🗓️ 17 November 2022
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(0:06) Does Bonking Make You Faster?
(19:56) How VO2max work becomes easy
(36:32) Should you fuel your strength workouts?
(51:57) Trivia!
(58:25) How to not lose fitness in the off-season
(1:07:05) Why gels make people sick / training on a budget
(1:19:12) Live Questions
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| 0:00.0 | Today we are going to talk about if bonking makes you faster. Let's get into it. Just write into it Chad |
| 0:04.9 | We have a question from Jeff |
| 0:06.3 | He says if I train to lie bonk does that mean my body will start using fat stores and I get leaner your answer |
| 0:12.5 | First you want to rephrase the question you're asking does bonking make you faster |
| 0:17.7 | Absolutely, it's the least known most productive quickest path to getting obscenely fast |
| 0:24.6 | Amazing who knew and none of that's true. Okay, none of that's true |
| 0:28.9 | But we do know so it's gonna cut that out |
| 0:33.9 | That's why I left the long pause afterwards so they could |
| 0:37.6 | So so let's talk about what is actually true and we have covered this before we did a podcast podcast way back |
| 0:43.2 | I think it was 200 and a subsequent blog post that Sean did quite good covers all the these bases |
| 0:48.8 | But I'm gonna restate them nonetheless |
| 0:50.8 | First off and maybe this wasn't in there so there will be some addition to it and then we'll get to the real stuff |
| 0:56.9 | For bonking can be a slow decline and it can come on real quick |
| 1:02.5 | You can put yourself in a spot where you do a whole lot of work with not a lot of sugar on board or you just burn through it |
| 1:07.3 | And it can happen quickly |
| 1:08.3 | But as it's described here by Jeff |
| 1:10.5 | I think he's talking about running himself into the ground and then asking if you know the slow twitch fibers will take over and |
| 1:14.8 | Helmetabolize fat more and get leaner etc |
| 1:17.6 | But so in that case with this slow decline |
| 1:20.5 | This does include the training stimulus and thus you're training adaptations |
| 1:26.6 | So if you're just kind of going lower lower lower the stimulus that the muscle fibers that the energy systems and all of those things that are linked to it are |
| 1:34.4 | Experiencing is probably not what you're after not in terms of the adaptation that you're trying to derive |
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