KOM Training, Increasing Training Volume, Morning Training and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 292
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 139 minutes
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Summary
Training for KOMs/QOMs can be a great fallback plan for event cancellations, but how do you train for such a unique effort? We’ll cover this and how to strategically increase your training volume, how to adapt to morning workouts and much more in Episode 292 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Jonathan’s new XC race bike
• What Jonathan learned testing multiple XC bikes back to back
• The host’s New Year’s Resolutions - How to train for Grinduro
• How to train to take a KOM
• Should you eat carbs during short workouts?
• What races don’t affect your training?
• How does Alcohol affect cycling performance?
• How to add extra volume to your training
• How to get used to morning workouts - Best mobility exercises for cyclists
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast that's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist, the Ask a Cycling |
| 0:04.0 | Coach podcast presented by trainer road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we have Cannondale |
| 0:08.0 | and trainer roads Amber Pierce. Good morning, everyone. Cliff bar racing and trainer roads, |
| 0:13.6 | Pete Morris. Hey, guys. And we also have our CEO, Nate Pearson. Hello. We're going to answer more |
| 0:20.3 | of the cycling and traffic on the related questions that you submitted and you submitted a ton |
| 0:23.7 | this week. By the way, thank you. Keep doing that. It's awesome. You can do it at trainerroad.com |
| 0:27.8 | slash podcast and you can check that out. I want to clarify something now that we have part |
| 0:32.5 | almost all of the original crew back here today. Last last week, I joked around that we had the U-23 |
| 0:38.1 | squad and then we jokingly joked around that the other side was the master squad. And it's true. |
| 0:44.7 | That's true. It's true. I'm like one year away from being a master's athlete too. So, but with |
| 0:50.0 | all that said, some people took offense to us to that comment and that we were making fun of master's |
| 0:56.7 | athletes and we certainly don't mean to imply that at all because partially because most of us are |
| 1:02.0 | master's athletes. And we also are very aware that the majority of you listening are master's athletes. |
| 1:07.2 | I'll go farther and say that masters are pretty awesome with our security of experience in life. |
| 1:14.2 | I think that's hopefully wisdom. Hence the term master. I mean, exactly. Yes. What more do you have to |
| 1:20.7 | say? We could actually rename it the Chad category because at this point, that's experience. We get to |
| 1:27.2 | rim Chad since he's not here this week. So I just wanted to clear that up. But first things first, |
| 1:33.5 | I teased an announcement of personal interest that I stated and then people started guessing on |
| 1:39.0 | the form and they started thinking that it was like big product releases or something else like that. |
| 1:43.0 | And I am so sorry for getting your hopes up. You're going to be sorely disappointed because that's |
| 1:47.8 | nothing to do with product releases. However, this is one that Nate, you in particular have been |
| 1:53.0 | shocked at. Is this correct? Yes. I've known about it for so long. So it's it was very shocked for |
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