Hot Takes! Weight, CdA, FKTs and More - Ask a Cycling Coach 391
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🗓️ 24 November 2022
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- FKTs without a film crew are just KOMs
- Hannah’s Whole Enchilada FKT
- Stop spending money on your bike and just train more
- There’s nothing wrong with attacking in the feed zone
- If you stop at a gas station during an endurance ride, do you destroy all the benefits?
- Socks go under your leg warmers
- Fatter can be faster
- Training on the rollers is more effective than a static trainer
- Everyone would be a better athlete if they went to therapy
- We need a better metric for measuring fitness than w/kg or FTP
- There’s nothing wrong with wearing your bibs 6-8 times before washing them. Fine for me.
- Gravel tires with big lugs make no sense unless you’re riding very muddy roads
- Commuting in jeans to work on my ebike does not make me less of a person
- 1 hour in the weight room is worth more than 2 hours in base/Z1/Z2 riding.
- VO2 max workouts are better without a power meter.
- Aero bars don’t belong on bikes with knobby tires
- A good result in a crit is 90% luck.
- Body weight exercises are an acceptable substitution for traditional weight training.
- Watts per CdA is more important for most riders than w/kg
- Oversized pulley wheels are a waste of money
- Pidcock podiums the /23 TdF
- MTBrs are sad they aren’t the cool kids anymore. That’s why they low key hate on gravel
- Black mold in your bottle is where all the flavor is at
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist. |
| 0:02.8 | The Ask a Cycling Coach podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | We have hot takes today. |
| 0:06.6 | Let's get into one, guys. |
| 0:08.2 | All right, first one, FKT's of that a film crew are Jess Kaelens. |
| 0:12.0 | Hannah, how's it going? |
| 0:14.7 | Hi. |
| 0:15.5 | You did FKT? |
| 0:16.8 | Yeah, I feel like this has personally trying to attack me. |
| 0:25.3 | You did it FKT for the whole enchilada |
| 0:27.4 | and you had a film crew. |
| 0:30.0 | And we love that. |
| 0:31.0 | It's OK. |
| 0:31.6 | Don't feel attacked. |
| 0:32.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:34.5 | How do you do that more? |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, like can you, yeah, we should, we should, because the video is awesome. |
| 0:39.4 | First of all, and hopefully we can show some of that on screen, a |
| 0:42.8 | vaccine or awesome producer will put that in post when we talk about this. |
| 0:47.2 | And, but I say we get into the nerdy details. |
| 0:50.4 | If you don't mind sharing such nerdy details, Hannah. |
| 0:53.8 | Yeah, I'd love to talk about it, because that was something that |
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