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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Hot Takes! Weight, CdA, FKTs and More - Ask a Cycling Coach 391

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

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4.94.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Hannah’s Whole Enchilada FKT: https://youtu.be/oErEWLGdPlI 

 

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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