Maintaining Fitness, Rest Days, Feed Zones, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 361
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 28 April 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
What is the best type of training to maintain fitness, how to match your nutrition plan to your event, and are complete rest days necessary? Join Coach Chad, Amber, Nate, and Jonathan for these discussions and much more!
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(04:07) What’s the best type of training to maintain fitness?
(27:05) How to match your nutrition plan to your event
(50:19) Do you need complete rest days?
(01:11:37) Are you shifting too often or not enough?
(01:20:17) The benefits of wheel-on trainers
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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 |
| 0:06.9 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we have with us our head coach Chad Timmerman |
| 0:11.1 | Everybody we have trainer road in canondales amber Pierce good morning everyone and our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:18.4 | Hello Nate you and I have changed our video for this week. You need to join us on YouTube to see it |
| 0:22.8 | Yours is fantastic and it's a traveling |
| 0:24.9 | I |
| 0:26.4 | Just set this up like 10 minutes ago put the like the the curtains behind you and the lamp every day |
| 0:32.1 | It looks like it's like well planned. It's very good very good. Yeah, yeah, my mind has like videos number plates |
| 0:38.8 | And other things like that and I'm disoriented with left and right right now |
| 0:42.4 | Anyways join us on YouTube and you can do that every Thursday at AM Pacific |
| 0:46.0 | And if you're listening to this now rate the podcast five stars share it with your friends huge help for us |
| 0:50.6 | I wanted to mention one thing before we go any further |
| 0:54.2 | Just something funny that I wanted to applaud specifically IV for |
| 0:58.9 | So somebody reached out on Twitter and maybe Maxine can even share her screen on this one so we can see it |
| 1:04.1 | somebody reached out on Twitter and said hey |
| 1:07.2 | Train road can you please make like a 15 minute workout for me and make it so that I can do it as an outside workout |
| 1:13.3 | Cuz I have a 15 minute commute and it'd be great if you could do that exact thing for my specific needs |
| 1:17.7 | And then they posted the meme of like doctor evil asking Scotty to do that |
| 1:22.0 | So then IV made the workout made it an outside workout out of the goals |
| 1:27.8 | And then she called the workout Scotty which is just |
| 1:33.2 | Just straight |
| 1:35.2 | So if you if you have 15 minute commutes there you go and that's how awesome IV in the rest of our team is |
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