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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Low Cadence, Training Stress Guide, Pain Killers & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 144

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.94.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Low cadence/high force drills, a guide to Training Stress, pain killers & more in this episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE

• We're hiring! www.TrainerRoad.com/jobs
• What you need to know about bike demos
• What makes a training plan good?
• How to train for cycling while training for a marathon
• Are low cadence intervals a bad idea?
• How to adjust your training plan for group rides or races
• Why structured training plans are best
• Ramping intervals vs. steps
• Why more than Training Stress matters
• How TrainerRoad reports power data
• How long should you wait to workout after a beer?
• Should cyclists avoid ibuprofen?

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Each week Coach Chad Timmerman, Coach Jonathan and TrainerRoad’s CEO Nate Pearson gathers to answer queries submitted from athletes around the globe, as well as dish about their latest training experiments, discoveries and tips.

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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

0:06.3

I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timberman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson

0:11.4

Hey, hey, I'm going to answer more of your cycling and traflon related questions today

0:16.0

You can submit them at trainer road calm slash podcast

0:18.8

We will read through those questions and then we put as many questions as we can that we feel are gonna be informative and provide some entertainment

0:27.2

Together in a list and then we answer those each week

0:30.5

Before we get into the questions we have a few things to cover though

0:34.3

We're hiring yep. We're hiring two designers a product designer and a web designer you go to trainer.com slash jobs to apply for those

0:42.0

No need to email me directly because I don't do any of the hiring for this job to

0:46.9

All I'll congratulate you when you join, but I'm not in the process at all. So just apply right there awesome very cool

0:54.9

Anything else they should know about that or it's all in the listing I guess they can find it all out there, huh?

0:59.4

That's it. Yeah cool

1:01.9

Another thing that I just want to share some insights though over the weekend

1:05.4

I went to the Sedona mountain bike festival and the point was to

1:09.9

To test a bunch of bikes for different reviews that that that I'm doing

1:14.6

I'm not switching bike companies or anything I should make that clear

1:17.1

But I just we tested a bunch of bikes and I wanted to share something really quick because we hear about a lot of folks

1:22.5

Whether they ask what type of bike they should get or something else like that especially with mountain biking gets a little more specific

1:27.4

We could apply these for road biking too

1:29.6

Here's how we tested 17 bikes within like three days

1:33.2

So the way that we did it is we had a loop and that loop had the type of terrain that we would encounter or anybody could encounter in this case

1:40.6

But if you were testing I would try to find the type of a terrain that you would ride regularly

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