Foam Rolling, Faster Triathlon Times, Genetics vs. Talent & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 139
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Does foam rolling actually work, the real reason why triathlon times are getting faster, how much of performance is due to genetics & more! Join us live for this week's episode of the Ask a Cycling coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• (4:30) How to know when you should upgrade categories
• How to Coach Yourself to Peak Fitness: blog.trainerroad.com/training-plan-guide/
• (14:35) The science behind foam rolling
• (30:25) Is non-alcoholic beer bad for recovery too?
• (34:25) Are plyometrics good for cyclists?
• (44:55) Should you gain weight to be a better time trialist?
• (50:50) Genetics vs. talent and how they affect cyclists
• (1:02:50) Why triathlon times are getting faster
• (1:12:10) Facebook Live Questions
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated in making a faster cyclist the Ask a cycling coach podcast presented by a trainer road |
| 0:06.1 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:10.8 | Hey, hey, and this is where you get answers to your cycling and travel underlated questions |
| 0:14.6 | You can submit them at trainer road calm slash podcast before we get into that |
| 0:18.8 | We should talk about a few things. Yeah, first thing is kick it off on Facebook. There is a new Facebook group called trainer road |
| 0:26.0 | Beta what is it called? Oh my god trainer of beta users? It's that |
| 0:29.5 | Beta group. Yeah, that's what it's called. It's linked to our actual page and we're putting our newest stuff in there |
| 0:34.8 | We have some discussions about actually a new testing protocol discussions in there |
| 0:40.0 | We have things releasing very very very soon. I'm watching a little countdown on my computer. So |
| 0:47.0 | If you want to be if you're interested in that kind of stuff go in there |
| 0:50.1 | But again, it's it's really it's kind of fun to have a discussion about some of these new things and help guide trainer road |
| 0:55.8 | Yeah, but if you're not interested you just want to get it at the end don't go in there. Yeah, yeah, you're welcome to though |
| 1:00.2 | So check that out before we do that too something I wanted to mention was on the blog this week |
| 1:05.1 | We talked or we have a training plan guide that we released |
| 1:08.4 | It's it's titled how to coach yourself to peak fitness and we tried to |
| 1:13.0 | Go across all of those different |
| 1:15.4 | adjustments that you have to make or contingencies that you have to consider whenever you're laying out your plan and |
| 1:20.1 | And how you can use our plans that have a base phase a build phase and a specialty phase to get ready |
| 1:25.8 | For your goal event. So if you've ever had questions like how do I just my training plan for X or what training plan should I pick to get ready for this |
| 1:33.8 | If you go on to that blog post you'll be able to see how to lay things out and then it it's pretty straightforward |
| 1:39.8 | Relatively speaking so it should be a big help for a lot of folks because we get that question quite a lot so |
| 1:45.9 | Nate you race this weekend mountain bikes mountain bikes. Yeah, I was kind of a |
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