How to Beat Light Riders, Rest Day Cravings, Sauna Training & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 202
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2019
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
How big riders can easily beat light riders, how to manage rest day hunger and cravings, more information on sauna training and much more!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Outside Workouts with TrainerRoad!
- How to know when to skip a race and recover
- Pre-race routines and visualization
- XC MTB pacing
- USAC MTB call-up points explained
- We raced another TT!
- Indoor training on a budget
- Are saunas only effective immediately after training?
- How to prepare for a ramp test
- Coach Chad's strength training recommendations
- How does ribose affect recovery?
- Why you always feel extra hungry on rest days
- Why properly fueling workouts is actually a skill
- How to manage weight during a taper
- How big riders can easily beat light riders
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome to the podcast. It's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist. |
| 0:04.1 | The Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road and coach Jonathan Lee with |
| 0:07.8 | our head coach Chad Zimmerman. |
| 0:09.0 | All right buddy. |
| 0:10.0 | Our CEO Nate Pearson. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello. |
| 0:12.0 | And we're back finally doing a normal podcast. It's been almost a month since we've since |
| 0:15.7 | we've done one. |
| 0:16.7 | Yeah, seems kind of crazy. |
| 0:17.7 | It seems like a long time. |
| 0:18.7 | We've been. |
| 0:19.7 | I know. |
| 0:20.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.7 | So forgive us if we have any issues here. |
| 0:22.9 | Producer Ian is producing the podcast and if you have any questions about this episode, you |
| 0:26.3 | can jump into forum. |
| 0:27.5 | Trainorroad.com. |
| 0:29.3 | You can throw in links. |
| 0:30.8 | Ian's going to be switching cameras and doing a lot of stuff like that all throughout this |
| 0:34.1 | podcast. |
| 0:35.1 | So if you hear something that we mentioned, something you could do if you're listening |
| 0:38.7 | live, which you can on Facebook or YouTube, is you can jump into the forum and you could |
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