Fastest Known Times, Motivation, Consistency and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 301
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
Santa Cruz Bicycle’s Keegan Swenson joins us to discuss how he recaptured the White Rim FKT and to discuss how pro athletes manage expectations over a multi-year development plan, how to maintain motivation and consistency, pedaling technique, bike tech and much more.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
Intro 0:00
New TrainerRoad Android and iOS apps! 2:43
TrainerRoad’s new Polarized Training plans! 4:28
Adaptive Training update and common questions 6:10
How Keegan Swenson recaptured the White Rim FKT 12:42
What we can learn from how pro athletes manage expectations 50:11
How to avoid low-quality foods during high training volume 1:11:37
The biggest differences between the Santa Cruz Blur and Pivot Mach 4 SL 1:25:09
How to choose the right length dropper post 1:27:05
Why don’t cyclists use %FTP instead of power on their head units? 1:33:45
How to keep your head warm on cold rides 1:34:48
Should you estimate TSS for weight training? 1:37:34
Which pedals are best for both road and MTB 1:49:36
How to find the best width handlebar for mountain biking? 1:43:26
How to maintain motivation and consistency through a season of training 1:57:05
Keegan’s White Rim FKT Video - https://youtu.be/NIe9Fa8EI_M
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Transcript
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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 |
| 0:07.7 | Lee we have a different crew on precedent and crew with us here today |
| 0:10.6 | I don't think we've ever had this mix before we have IV odd drain from trainer road and also at the hand or hand up gloves the black bibs |
| 0:16.7 | What I don't know if I've completely botched that IV sorry how are you and good a hand up plus the black bibs racing? |
| 0:23.1 | Awesome |
| 0:25.1 | We have our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello, and then if you're playing the the bingo or drinking game get ready to put down a lot of things or |
| 0:33.5 | Yeah, I guess put down a lot of things out of the way we also have Santa Cruz racing's Keegan Swenson. It's up Keegan |
| 0:39.5 | Hey guys, stoked to have you your fresh off of your what we're gonna talk about here in a little bit your white room FKT |
| 0:46.4 | fastest known time on the white room trail |
| 0:48.9 | So yeah still still paying for that |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah, I was gonna say yeah probably still recovering before we get into that though just a handful of things first of all the science of getting faster |
| 0:58.2 | Podcast people are absolutely loving this podcast. We're working on new episodes right now as well that will be coming up |
| 1:03.5 | Within a handful of weeks, which is exciting. So stay tuned to that and they just smirked |
| 1:08.6 | I think he was like don't put a timeline on it. No check how much coffee I have this is like |
| 1:12.6 | Oh, our cabin made me double, but this whole as much as these is a lot. No, this is like a couple months |
| 1:17.4 | You know, these two at least big dogs |
| 1:20.8 | Nate's rated rip right now |
| 1:28.0 | Just going nuts so you can tune into the science of getting faster podcasts |
| 1:32.3 | We're Nate will probably have even more coffee in his system in those ones because he has to be extra sharp for those ones |
| 1:37.0 | Where we go deep into the science with the researchers we go directly to the researchers instead of just like hey |
| 1:42.0 | There's a study and let's read the abstract and let's you know just take it at that instead |
| 1:46.7 | We talk to the researcher about the study itself and they give us a lot of information and a lot of context with it |
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