Hydration, Sweat and Cramping with Precision Hydration's Andy Blow – Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 221
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2019
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Andy Blow of Precision Hydration joins us for a deep dive into hydration, sweating, cramping and more.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• What really causes cramps?
• How do you accurately test sweat rates?
• Is it necessary to replace sodium in the mornings?
• What influence does recent nutrition have on sweat tests?
• How to test hydration levels on a daily basis
• Is there an ideal sweat rate?
• Does sweat rate change over time?
• Should you aim to replace all sodium and liquid lost to sweat?
• Is the loss of sodium or liquid more harmful to performance?
• Is sweat rate correlated to relative performance changes?
• How do you calculate your sweat rate-specific nutrition in hot vs. cold conditions?
• How heat acclimatization affects sweat
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist |
| 0:04.4 | that's a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road coach Jonathan Lee and we |
| 0:08.2 | have a special episode today coach chat Timmerman is not with us instead we have our CEO |
| 0:13.3 | Nate Pearson hello and then we also have special guest with us here Andy Blow from precision |
| 0:17.7 | hydration. |
| 0:18.7 | How you doing man? |
| 0:19.7 | Yeah good thank you for having me. |
| 0:20.7 | Yeah of course I was kind of funny so we've talked about sweat and hydration and those |
| 0:25.6 | sort of things plenty of times of the podcast. |
| 0:27.8 | We were actually going to do a hydrate or a sweat test last year at Kona you were trying |
| 0:31.9 | to. |
| 0:32.9 | They wouldn't let me. |
| 0:33.9 | And they wouldn't because you weren't an athlete. |
| 0:34.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.9 | So we've talked about plenty of times and ever since then people have been like you guys should |
| 0:38.8 | just talk to the folks at precision hydration and it's kind of funny because like in an |
| 0:42.2 | email I was like only me if you guys ever pass in through Reno and they're like strangely |
| 0:45.2 | enough we are so it's perfect for it. |
| 0:48.1 | So thanks for coming on. |
| 0:49.5 | Can you give people a quick little idea I guess about what you do and I guess let's go into |
| 0:55.0 | your background as an athlete first so then we can kind of get a premise where we're |
| 0:58.1 | going. |
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