Heart Rate Deep Dive, Tulsa Tough, FTP and VO2Max and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 313
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 17 June 2021
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
Coach Chad is back! This week we dig into how VO2max affects FTP, why heart rate may be lower or higher for different people at different times, and discussions about positioning in aggressive groups, heat, crashing and more inspired by Tulsa Tough.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Intro 0:04
- Jonathan’s Tulsa Tough experience 12:20
- The difference between racing for a win versus a solid finish 20:54
- How to ride in an aggressive group 24:30
- Mental and strategic tips for racing in aggressive fields -28:47
- How to beat a dominant team 46:10
- How does VO2 Max affect FTP? 1:19:58
- Does cadence affect aerodynamics? 1:27:55
- Why does heart rate vary between athletes? 1:34:03
- Live questions and answers 1:56:12
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee back with the original crew. We have our head coach Chad Timberman with us. Stuff Chad. Hey everybody. He's back new background. |
| 0:15.5 | Excellent lighting. |
| 0:16.7 | In the course of 10. It's double lighting. |
| 0:19.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.5 | Yeah. Chad Chad and I have similar skin tone. We don't tan. We just we just get burned and then go back to pale. |
| 0:32.5 | Yeah. We also have canondale and trainer roads amber pierce. Good morning everyone. |
| 0:36.5 | And our CEO Nate Pearson. |
| 0:38.5 | Hello. |
| 0:39.5 | Let's. |
| 0:40.5 | I'd by the way I had to tell Nate to stop take talking please just before we went live. So today's going to be a good episode. |
| 0:46.5 | It's like a talk. It was a Instagram story. Okay. Yeah. It's going to be it's going to be a good episode. |
| 0:52.5 | Chad, first of all, welcome back. It's going to have you back. |
| 0:55.5 | Thank you. That's really going to be back. I missed you guys. Most of you. |
| 0:59.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.5 | Likewise. |
| 1:00.5 | Digital hug. |
| 1:01.5 | We all know what we were talking about. I missed you. |
| 1:04.5 | Oh, digital hug for Chad. Chad, do you want to just kind of give us an update on on I guess where you're at and why you've been absent all that stuff really quick? |
| 1:15.5 | Yeah. Yeah. I'll keep it brief. The. |
| 1:19.5 | So well, first off, I kind of wanted to spell the rumor that adaptive training isn't actually machine learning. |
| 1:25.5 | Rather, I'm hold up in some basement somewhere madly. |
| 1:28.5 | Adaptations to thousands of writers work out. That's not true. |
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