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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Injury Prevention, Cross Winds, Tactics for Small Teams and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 238

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.9 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2019

⏱️ 135 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Special guest Amber Pierce joins the team to discuss injury prevention by foam rolling vs stretching, maintaining stability in cross winds, developing a team race strategy and more in Episode 238 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • How to use Plan Builder to prep for your event with little time
  • Do endurance rides hurt your sprint power?
  • What data fields to use for racing on your cycling computer
  • Tips for smaller riders to handle cross winds
  • Does protein intake blunt absorption of carbohydrates on long rides?
  • Is foam rolling for injury prevention better than stretching for flexibility?
  • What are the implications of having a high metabolism?
  • Pro tips to win races with a small team

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road

0:06.1

Coach Jonathan Lee at a packed table today our head coach Chad Zimmerman is here all right, buddy

0:10.3

And our product manager and Candles

0:13.0

Amber Pierce is here. Hello. Good to have you here and our CEO Nate Pearson sponsor by trainer road. Hello

0:19.0

Yeah, exactly right aren't we all at this point

0:22.0

That's actually the only spot we get questions about sponsorship for this podcast all the time

0:26.1

Could you tell and strangely you can join us on YouTube and then you would be able to tell for sure

0:31.8

You can do that. It's usually every Thursday at the end Pacific, but it is Christmas Eve

0:36.2

So we are recording early this week and we're just getting it done here today

0:40.4

So you can have some good Christmas listening

0:43.0

A couple things to cover really quick some job postings

0:45.8

We have react and react native engineers right Nate you can go find this on trainer road comms such jobs correct

0:51.0

C sharp engineer correct and if you are local customer customer support team local to read on the back

0:56.3

Yes, then we can we'd love to have you join us. So let us know trainer road comms last jobs

1:01.8

And some interesting stuff that we've posted up some helpful stuff just recently on our YouTube channel trainer road or YouTube comms slash trainer road

1:09.2

Tucker put together kind of like a mashup so to speak of

1:12.8

Nate your finishes we talked about this last week, but from going from cat five to cat two in a year. It's pretty cool

1:18.2

Yeah, it's a I love YouTube Climbing comments. Thanks everyone one thing that keeps saying a lot of people who I don't make listen to the podcast is that I have

1:26.1

Like all this natural talent

1:28.6

Chad look at Chad

1:31.0

You got to put it on watch

1:33.2

Chad seen my whole like cycling career pretty much when I used to your indoor power

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