Gaining Weight to Get Faster, Motivation, Fasting and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 348
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 27 January 2022
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Tri challenge update from the hosts
- Should you gain weight to get faster?
- How to keep your training on track while fasting
- Rapid Fire questions
- How to do the most work possible for 10 minutes
- How to maintain motivation when your events get cancelled
- How to swap out weekend workouts for long rides with Adaptive Training
- Is there an ideal cadence for climbing?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast that's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road and coach Jonathan Lee |
| 0:07.0 | I apologize for the the voice I'm a little under the weather this week and we have with us trainer road and canada's amber pierce |
| 0:14.0 | Good morning. We also have our head coach Chad Timmerman welcome back from the snowy mountains of Canada Chad |
| 0:19.6 | Thank you. Thank you. Hi everyone |
| 0:21.6 | He was skiing all week at powder Creek lodge making me so sad that I was not there and I know right it was amazing |
| 0:28.2 | Yeah, I know like you say yeah, and he was with Pete too gosh dang it. I know and Jay Burke the guy who the race promoter for |
| 0:38.1 | Yeah, yeah, Jay Burke. Yeah, he's super cool guy the race director. Sorry director |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, what a cool group and our CEO Nate Pearson. Sorry Nate |
| 0:48.6 | Got to got to you late there |
| 0:50.9 | That's okay |
| 0:52.9 | All right today we're gonna answer your questions. We're gonna we're gonna I guess consider the concept of gaining weight to get faster |
| 1:00.8 | Which is an interesting one it goes against all of our normal psychology is cyclists |
| 1:04.6 | We're also gonna look at maintaining motivation amidst race cancellations. It's still happening unfortunately |
| 1:10.3 | But hey, we can change things around we're also gonna look into fasting for various different reasons |
| 1:16.3 | So I know that a lot of people are interested in hearing that one |
| 1:19.1 | We tend to kick the hornets nest when we talk about fasting |
| 1:21.7 | So but before we get to anything on that Nate |
| 1:25.6 | We spoke about legacy pricing was it two or three episodes ago. I have I have two things to say John |
| 1:31.9 | Gourds thanks everyone who went into the forum and there's a throughout about that about legacy pricing |
| 1:37.7 | Thank for everyone's opinion and |
| 1:40.3 | Basically the vibe the one that I heard a lot was you know |
| 1:44.4 | I I stay signed up when I normally wouldn't be signed up because I thought in the future |
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