Is Higher Cadence Better, How Crank Length Affects Power + More – Ask a Cycling Coach 129

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

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🗓️ 7 February 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Is a higher cadence actually better, how is crank length affecting your power output, and cornering drills that make you faster. All of this and more in this episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!

Topics Covered in this episode:

• How Cyclists Can Avoid Losing Fitness While Traveling
• Is a higher cadence actually better?
• Cadence myths busted
• How to adjust your training as a parent
• How to balance life with training
• Cornering drills to make you a better bike handler
• Do rollers make you a better bike handler?
• Your guide to proper line choice for cycling
• What is the difference between Normalized and Average Power?
• Is it normal to see higher Normalized Power than Average Power?
• What does Variability Index mean?
• How to use VI for pacing
• Are cooldowns necessary?
• What effect cooldowns have on your body
• How does crank length actually affect power output?
• Are longer cranks better?
• Why you should consider short cranks for off-road riding

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the Asuka Cycling Coach podcast.
0:04.3	New intro.
0:05.3	Yeah, here we are, we're live today, actually on Facebook.
0:08.0	We have people joining us.
0:09.4	This is the Asuka Cycling Coach podcast, the only podcast dedicated making you a faster
0:13.3	cyclist.
0:14.5	This is where we answer all your cycling and triathlon related questions and you can
0:18.2	submit them to us at Trineroad.com slash podcast.
0:20.6	I'm here with our head coach, Chad Timberman.
0:22.7	All right, buddy.
0:23.7	Our CEO, Nate Pearson.
0:24.7	Hello.
0:26.2	And we are going to get into a few things before we go into the questions.
0:31.4	Firstly, for those of you that joined us just a few weeks ago, we had a live, our first
0:36.1	actual live recording at the Rafa Cycle Club in San Francisco with Matt Fitzgerald.
0:41.0	That was a ton of fun.
0:42.0	It was good.
0:43.0	It was a blast.
0:44.0	Someone just yesterday told me how good it was.
0:45.0	Yeah.
0:46.0	And I believe them.
0:47.0	We missed Chad.
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