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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

How to Pick the Right Plan, Weight Management, Recovery Strategies and More – Ask a Cycling a Coach 192

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.9 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

2019's first Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast Episode is all about finding the right training, sticking to it through challenges and optimizing your performance along the way to your next A Race. Tune in live and bring your questions!

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE

 

  • A guide to picking the right training plan
  • Most important factors in deciding how to train for a race
  • Best training plans for every type of racing
  • How to shorten a training plan
  • How to adjust a training plan for time off
  • Why cross-training may actually make you a slower cyclist
  • Pacing without power
  • How to use saunas in your training
  • Are ice baths actually beneficial?
  • Is Bikram Yoga a good idea for cyclists?
  • Signs that you need to include gym work in your training
  • How to manage weight like a cyclist

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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.

0:06.0

I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Shadson.

0:09.0

Everybody and our CEO, Nate Pearson. Hello.

0:11.0

And we are here to answer more of your cycling and traffic on related questions that you submit at trainer road.com slash podcast.

0:16.0

We appreciate everybody that did submit questions this week. Please continue to do so. We love it.

0:21.0

That's what keeps this whole thing going here. Before we are right just getting straight into things.

0:27.0

We've gotten a ton of questions recently. Make sense with the time here on how to pick a plan.

0:33.0

And then all like how to stick to the plan to that's like the other part of the question, right?

0:37.0

So we're going to kind of go through we're going to use a couple questions. It's kind of like set scenarios.

0:42.0

And then we'll talk about the principles behind how we select a plan and kind of lay out like a guide.

0:46.0

So whatever circumstances you find yourself in you'll also be able to pick a plan and just be able to go right through it.

0:52.0

Of course, if you have questions on these things, you can always submit them like I said at trainer road.com slash podcast.

0:57.0

But hopefully this gives you what you guys will need. So start with with Jan's question or Jan, I'm not sure.

1:03.0

I assume Jan actually it's from Germany. So says my name is Jan and I'm a cyclist from Germany and new to trainer road.

1:09.0

Ian Pelleier from the trainer road team gave me the tip that you might be able to help answer my question.

1:14.0

He's one of our support agents. Awesome. He says in August of 2019, I have an a race and it's a 40 KTT.

1:20.0

It's literally all about this one race. So I for sure want to be in the best shape at this point.

1:26.0

The training for this race should start soon and I wonder with which plan I should train.

1:30.0

So he says, would this make or would this sequence of training plans make sense?

1:35.0

Or what else would you recommend to me? Example one, sweet spot base one and two.

1:40.0

That's a good start. Right. So we recommend for pretty much everybody.

1:43.0

Only time or that differs is when we're talking about triathlon plans. Right.

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