Fitness Plateaus, VO2 Max Intervals, Solo Race Tactics & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 166
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2018
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Join us for a discussion on how to break through fitness plateaus, how people do VO2 Max intervals wrong, and a tactics discussion on how to win a bike race without a team. Episode 166 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast is coming right up!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Race analysis of Tahoe Trail 100
- Why getting stuck behind slower riders may be a good thing
- How to deal with hot weather in a race
- What to do if your FTP is not increasing
- When it's good to be a heavier rider
- Why power to weight ratio isn't everything
- How to lose weight and get more fit
- Why maintaining fitness can be tricky to measure
- Why all Training Stress is not the same
- Why you could be doing VO2 Max intervals wrong
- How VO2 Max work can improve aerobic and anaerobic stores
- Why excessive heat isn't a good match with intense training
- How to implement heat training into your plan
- How heat training can help performance at altitude
- How to fuel for 24 hour races
- How to win a bike race without a team
- How tactics change when you don't know your competition
- Does carb loading make you gain fat?
- How to fit more training into less time
- How long should a pull last?
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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 |
| 0:06.1 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:10.1 | Hello, we're gonna answer more of those cycling and trathlon related questions today |
| 0:13.5 | You can submit them at trainer road comm slash podcast you can find this podcast wherever you listen to podcasts |
| 0:18.8 | That's pretty self-explanatory or wherever you're listening to this now |
| 0:21.6 | But you can subscribe on there too, so then that way you don't miss episodes |
| 0:25.2 | I subscribe and auto downloads so then it downloads on Wi-Fi |
| 0:29.2 | So then I don't get into the situation where I'm stuck and I can't listen to my podcast so a little podcast pro tip myself |
| 0:34.7 | You can also set a download over cellular |
| 0:36.7 | You can, yeah data though data's limited for some folks so |
| 0:41.2 | We're glad that you're all with us. We're going to cover |
| 0:45.1 | Quite a lot of questions this week from all of you |
| 0:47.5 | Before we get into that just wanted to mention a bunch of conversations |
| 0:50.6 | We're going on in the ask a cycling coach podcast Facebook group some interesting discussions that people have been having recently on like |
| 0:56.5 | theoretical what if situations that I've found interesting so you can go in there |
| 1:01.8 | See where people are sharing data to back those things up or where people just share kind of silly cultural ideas that |
| 1:07.6 | That also get blown out of the water at times, but it's interesting conversation in there head over just go to Facebook |
| 1:12.9 | Look for the trainer road ask a cycling coach podcast group you'll find it in there |
| 1:17.7 | Oh, and one other thing that we have on YouTube right now |
| 1:20.5 | You can just go to YouTube look for trainer road |
| 1:23.1 | We did a road race analysis Nate you and I did but with our filmmaker Dave Christianson. Yes, it's on a road race this time |
| 1:28.9 | Yep, so that's different because we've always done crits |
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