Energy Cost of Recovery, Training Camps and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 324
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
We know you burn energy in training, but what about when you recover? What processes happen in your body and how much energy does it take? We’ll cover this and go into the do’s and don’ts of training camps with two pros from the Orange Seal Off-Road Team, Hannah Finchamp and Alex Wild!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Intro 00:14
- Why do pro athletes still have elevated breathing rates on the podium? 13:07
- What happens in your body after a hard effort 17:04
- Is your caloric burn still elevated after training? 29:19
- Adjusting training for high-stress situations 1:22:44
- A guide to planning training camps from the pros 1:31:32
- When should you increase training volume? 1:43:10
- Is harder training actually better training? 1:50:29
- Live questions and answers 2:01:54
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STUDIES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Effects of incomplete pulmonary gas exchange on VO2 max. Powers, et al 1989: https://bit.ly/3BVWnS9 9:36
Calorimetric measurement of postexercise net heat loss and residual body heat storage. Kenny, et al 2008. https://bit.ly/3zXeqXC 22:52
Triglyceride/fatty acid cycling is increased after exercise. Bahr, et al 1990. https://bit.ly/3zTHQWq 28:43
Effect of Exercise Intensity, Duration and Mode on Post-Exercise Oxygen Consumption. Borsheim & Bahr 2003. https://bit.ly/3E58YUM 29:24
Effect of exercise intensity on post-exercise oxygen consumption and heart rate recovery. Mann, et al 2014. https://bit.ly/3hjG1Lk 31:09
Effect of exercise intensity and duration on postexercise metabolism. Gore, et al 1990. https://bit.ly/3l8bt0b 32:15
Exercise modality effect on oxygen uptake off-transient kinetics at maximal oxygen uptake intensity. Sousa, et al 2015. https://bit.ly/3lbKgJJ 37:41
Fat-free Mass and Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption in the 40 Minutes after Short-duration Exhaustive Exercise in
Young Male Japanese Athletes. Tahara, et al 2008. https://bit.ly/3BUqskR 40:59
Muscle lactate metabolism in recovery from intense exhaustive exercise: Impact of light exercise. Bangsbo, et al 1994. https://bit.ly/3zYskIZ 41:13
Effect of an acute period of resistance exercise on excess post-exercise oxygen consumption: implications for body mass management. Schuenke, et al 2002. https://bit.ly/38VII0O 45:01
Effects of exercise intensity and duration on the excess post-exercise oxygen consumption. LaForgia, et al 2006. https://bit.ly/3BXIYc8 47:27
Faster oxygen uptake kinetics during recovery is related to better repeated sprinting ability. Dupont, et al 2010. https://bit.ly/3tAvK2g 48:36
Effects of long-term aerobic exercise on EPOC. LeCheminant, et al 2007. https://bit.ly/2X1sst7 53:04
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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. |
| 0:05.7 | And coach Jonathan Lee, we have joining us today a new crew, a new mix. |
| 0:10.1 | We've never had this before for sure. |
| 0:11.8 | We have our head coach Chad Timberman. How you doing, Chad? |
| 0:14.8 | I'm doing well. Hey, everybody. Yeah. Good to see you. |
| 0:17.6 | We have orange seal off road specialized Alex Wild. |
| 0:22.0 | Hey, everyone. And another member of the orange seal off road team. |
| 0:25.0 | We have Hannah Finchamp with us. Hey, Hannah. |
| 0:27.2 | Hi, it's great to be here. |
| 0:28.4 | Yeah, I'm excited to have you on. |
| 0:30.4 | You were on during the leadville kind of like composite episode or national championships and leadville composite episodes that we did. |
| 0:38.0 | Where we interviewed the pros to see what they were doing for those, those big races. |
| 0:42.7 | And now we have to have you on for a normal episode. It's exciting. |
| 0:45.4 | Yeah, super excited. |
| 0:47.8 | Yeah. Um, so a first before we get any further, we have to say congratulations to Amber. |
| 0:53.4 | So Amber and David, they had their little one. |
| 0:56.1 | Our name is Berk Liever and Pierce. Uh, she's a healthy little baby girl who looks entirely like Amber. |
| 1:01.7 | It's crazy. I don't know how they do that. |
| 1:03.2 | It's like if Amber was baby formed, this is it. |
| 1:06.4 | But Amber went through 72 hours of labor. |
| 1:09.8 | Uh, of course, Amber would, right? Uh, she's able to do that. |
| 1:12.4 | That's, that's an endurance athlete through and through. |
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