Heat Training Risks, Cramping, Losing Fitness and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 217
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2019
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
Join us live for Episode 217 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast! We'll cover how heat training is proven to make you faster, but it can come at the cost of valuable training adaptations, why cramping actually happens and why it is so hard to avoid, how quickly you lose different types of fitness.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- How to fix tubeless flats in a race
- When to train inside and when to train outside
- How to train outside with TrainerRoad
- When is the best time for an endurance training block
- Why you get cramps and how to avoid them
- How quickly you lose fitness
- Should you not drink during a short race?
- How heat training can actually make you slower
- Why you should turn a road bike differently to an MTB
- Why your legs get tired in a race
- How to treat road rash like a pro
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist last cyclist coach podcast presented by trainer road. I |
| 0:07.2 | Am your host |
| 0:08.7 | Coach Jonathan Lee with our |
| 0:10.7 | Co-host here |
| 0:12.9 | Mixing it up today and our head coach Chad Zimmerman |
| 0:15.6 | Hi everybody and we don't have our CEO Nate Pearson with us. We have instead Pete Morris. How you doing Pete? How's it going guys? |
| 0:21.5 | Go on well, man. Going great. So what we are going to do right now is we are going to answer some of the cycling and traffic on related questions |
| 0:28.2 | You've submitted at trainer road calm slash podcast. We'll go into Adam's question first |
| 0:33.6 | So he says I just finished ledville and had the misfortune of getting four tax just after St. Keyvins |
| 0:39.0 | Sealand didn't close the three front front holes. So I used three plugs at one piece of bacon already threaded |
| 0:45.2 | But it took me time to thread the other two the rear tire seal but periodically shot out sealant throughout the ride |
| 0:50.7 | It was rideable but soft |
| 0:52.2 | So I found someone at the sugar loaf turn off with a floor pump to pump up the tire |
| 0:56.2 | I saved my CO2 for if either tire failed and I needed to use the one tube I was carrying |
| 1:01.4 | I also had one park tool boot that I didn't use and for those that don't know what a boot is |
| 1:06.0 | You can probably describe that |
| 1:07.8 | Pete you want to know. Yeah, well depends on which what kind you get |
| 1:10.8 | But usually it's like a hard plastic piece that |
| 1:14.1 | backs up against your tire wall or somewhere and |
| 1:17.6 | You can it backs up and keeps keeps the tube from popping out of any holes |
| 1:23.1 | Okay |
| 1:24.2 | Which makes sense they look like an adhesive patch. Yeah for big big problems. It's really thick. It's not just a small little guy |
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