Does Stretching Make You Faster, Heat Training, Bodyweight Training and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 352
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🗓️ 24 February 2022
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Summary
Coach Chad, Amber, Nate, and Jonathan take a deep dive into stretching, if it makes you faster, how you should do it, and more in Episode 352 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast. Tune in for this and discussions on heat training, bodyweight vs. weighted strength training and much more!
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
19:49 Deep Dive on Stretching
01:27:49 How to heat train at various budgets
1:37:45 How to drink and eat during interval workouts and not miss a beat
1:55:35 Is bodyweight training a substitute for barbell training?
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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. We're joined by trainer road in cannon dales amber pierce good morning everyone |
| 0:11.3 | By our head coach Chad Timmerman. Hi everyone |
| 0:14.3 | Our CEO Nate Pearson. Hi everyone. And that makes us the OG crew. Here we are. You're back again |
| 0:21.4 | It's good to have everybody mate. How are you doing? I'm doing good. How are you doing John? |
| 0:25.4 | Doing great. You was your birthday last week happy birthday was I turned 40. Yeah big 40 |
| 0:31.2 | You know, I went a little trip and I forgot my shaver and now I'm like maybe I'll you can't even see it |
| 0:36.1 | It's so like weak. Maybe I'll have a little bit of scruff now. Maybe I'll gonna go a little bit of a beard mountain man midlife crisis |
| 0:42.4 | Like you do. Chad did you do something when you turn 40? Did you like change something about your appearance? |
| 0:47.1 | Yeah, just stopped caring stop shaving. Chad, do you have any 40 like a 40 year old or midlife crisis tips for Nate? |
| 1:01.7 | Yeah, no, I've yet to experience my midlife crisis because I'm not quite there. I think I plan to live to be about 140 |
| 1:08.0 | So 70s midlife for me. That's good plan. That's all the night like this |
| 1:12.6 | That's impressive. We're gonna answer your questions. We're gonna have a deep dive on stretching today |
| 1:19.3 | We're gonna discuss stretching how to do it why you should do it? |
| 1:22.9 | What it actually does for you also the concept of does it actually make you faster or not because there's so many different things that we can do as endurance athletes |
| 1:30.3 | Yet we all have limited time |
| 1:32.3 | So we kind of have to make these decisions about like |
| 1:34.8 | Where we allocate our efforts and resources because it's just limited right so we'll talk about that if it makes us faster |
| 1:42.7 | We're gonna talk about heat training a little bit and how to do it at like accessible |
| 1:47.1 | Our different budgets are different accessibility levels and how you can actually accomplish quite a lot with it |
| 1:53.5 | Outside of the traditional context of you know, a sauna protocol and everything else |
| 1:57.5 | Then we'll also talk about body weight versus strength training |
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