Losing fitness, How Cadence Affects Fatigue, Nutrition Hacks & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 201
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
Join us live for another episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast! We'll be covering why retired pro cyclists are still so fast, years after retirement, how cadence and different muscles affect fatigue, and some recent research on nutrition hacks. Tune in Thursday, April 4 at 8:00am Pacific.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Why your bike may be heavier than you think
- How pomegranates make you faster
- Why retired pro cyclists are still so fast
- Why training at a younger age increases your potential
- How training changes your body at a cellular level
- How to train during holidays
- How to get rid of a rider in a breakaway
- What to do if you are the weakest or strongest rider in a group
- Does "salt loading" work?
- What should you do after you peak?
- How to know if you should train short or sustained power
- Which muscles make the most power?
- Why most people misunderstand the role of glutes in the pedal stroke
- Should you do longer rides to prep for road races?
- How cadence affects fatigue
- Returning to training from injury
- How to race "hot dog" criteriums
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Transcript
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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 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timmerman everybody and back our CEO and eight person. Hello. How you doing good good? |
| 0:13.2 | Good. Yeah. What can you let us in on your vacation and yeah? I got fat and no, but really |
| 0:19.6 | people shouldn't |
| 0:21.1 | Should understand there's two parts of it one |
| 0:22.7 | Yeah, getting fat and drinking alcohol and that stuff it hurts your fitness |
| 0:25.8 | But two if you live in elevation and you go to sea level and you come back |
| 0:30.5 | First day is okay, but you definitely get this little low and we talked about all the time |
| 0:34.2 | But you think like well, I live at this elevation that I want to affect me, but I've noticed I feel like I'm doing like November numbers |
| 0:42.0 | This week back from vacation |
| 0:44.0 | It's it's frustrating and it feels like it's never gonna come back Chad |
| 0:47.7 | I'm scared of the next week I'm at sea level for another week. I don't know what to do |
| 0:55.8 | We'll talk about that later. Yeah, yeah, we will. Yeah, actually. Yeah, it's a good one |
| 0:59.4 | So I want to cover a few things first of all if you head over to our YouTube channel |
| 1:03.8 | We're gonna have some cool content coming up this week with some race analysis stuff |
| 1:07.6 | We'll have the race where Nate and I work together as the Nate could win the race exciting stuff |
| 1:12.4 | That'll probably be put up next week |
| 1:14.6 | But then we also have some something from a short track race amount Mike race and footage from a pro |
| 1:20.4 | So that'll be coming up to cool. It's pretty great any working titles for those |
| 1:24.6 | Not right now. They don't want to share. Yeah, yeah, but pretty the the short track one |
| 1:29.5 | It's so funny. So we're watching like a professional short track in this one |
| 1:33.2 | And you're just like I watched it for like about 10 times without data, right? |
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