Intermittent Fasting, Lab Testing, Why Sweetspot is Hard & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 194
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2019
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Join us live for a discussion on whether intermittent fasting is good for endurance training, how to use lab test data to improve performance, why Sweetspot training is so hard and much more. Episode 194 is live this Thursday at 8:00am Pacific!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- How Nate won an MTB race in the Expert Category
- What we learned at a mountain bike skills clinic
- Why cross-training doesn't always help you get faster
- What Jonathan and Chad learned from a weeklong backcountry skiing training camp
- How to plan for multiple races in one day
- Tips to get upgrade points
- Does intermittent fasting work for cyclists?
- Are fasted workouts considered intermittent fasting?
- Why intermittent fasting is so misunderstood
- Is laboratory testing actually useful?
- What your VO2max data means for performance
- How to use body fat and resting metabolic rate data
- Why Sweetspot training is so hard
More training questions answered here: bit.ly/Training-Questions-Help-Center
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LINKS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST
- How to Become a Faster Mountain Biker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GAaheigvgg
- Race Analysis videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrKJ0zeMQrI5Bj3IUaHX0VPjNthpfFNhD
- Dr. Jason Fung's website: https://idmprogram.com/
- The new TrainerRoad Reviews page: https://www.trainerroad.com/reviews
- Search for DEXA on our SoundCloud channel: https://soundcloud.com/search?q=trainerroad%20dexa
- Carpathian Peak +2 workout: https://www.trainerroad.com/cycling/workouts/108188-carpathian-peak-2
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist ask a cycling coach podcast for the end of my trainer road. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Shadson Roman. |
| 0:09.3 | Hi everyone. |
| 0:09.8 | Our CEO Nate Pearson. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello. |
| 0:11.8 | And once again back with us Amber Pierce. How you doing? |
| 0:15.2 | Hello. I'm doing great. |
| 0:16.1 | Awesome. For those that didn't listen to the previous episode episode of 123. |
| 0:19.8 | You joined us. We talked on a whole bunch of issues with pro racing with because you are a kind of pro athlete and then with Mavic and a bunch of other brands as well. |
| 0:28.5 | But we also talked about women's specific issues that all three of us here have absolutely no idea about personal experience right. |
| 0:36.1 | So but people love the episode. It was awesome. |
| 0:39.7 | Thanks everyone. |
| 0:40.5 | Yeah. We're excited to have you back. |
| 0:42.2 | You were also super active in our forum. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah. Yeah. For this. |
| 0:45.1 | People had some amazing questions. |
| 0:46.4 | So thanks for that you guys. That was really fun. |
| 0:48.8 | Really if there was no questions, this would be a horrible podcast. |
| 0:51.2 | Yes. We just talk about like, I don't know, |
| 0:54.9 | consider skitrips. |
| 0:55.9 | Yeah, considering the considering the title. |
| 0:58.1 | Yeah. |
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