Metabolic Efficiency, Marking Riders, Sustained Power and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 314
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 1 July 2021
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
Does metabolic efficiency change at different intensities, when do you choose to mark a rider or go solo and make them chase, how to increase your sustained power abilities and much more all covered in this week’s Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Carrying momentum while cornering in a group 15:53
- Does metabolic efficiency change at different intensities? 36:27
- The hosts’ thoughts on the start of the 2021 Tour de France 1:06:58
- Sodium Loading 1:15:10
- Should motor pacing and group rides be excluded from KOMs? 1:18:18
- A practical way to gauge VO2max capabilities 1:22:23
- Improving sustained power 1:27:24
- When to mark a rider or go solo 1:36:12
- Live Questions 1:48:15
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road coach |
| 0:06.1 | Jonathan Lee we have our head coach Chad Timberman with us everybody |
| 0:09.9 | Jay Chad that your lighting is impeccable again. Thank you as always. I'm just new studio that he has |
| 0:15.3 | We also have canondale and trainer roads amber Pierce good morning everybody |
| 0:20.1 | Good to have you in there and we have our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello |
| 0:24.0 | We were working on your lighting, but ever since Chad stepped it up. We all look bad. So now we have to |
| 0:28.2 | You said that bar high sure the secret it's really simple you can do it |
| 0:35.0 | Let's be honest though. It's not just the lighting. Come on. I mean really it's Chad. He has been speaking of Nate you've been working out a ton |
| 0:44.8 | I saw you yesterday and I was like whoa you you look yesterday |
| 0:49.4 | Yeah, yeah at the office here. Yeah |
| 0:52.5 | Yeah |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah, my point is you don't look like you're prepping for Cape Epic. That's the point I want to get to here |
| 1:01.3 | You look jacked, but you don't look like you're prepping for Cape Epic. Thank you |
| 1:04.8 | And this is cycling jacked. I don't think I'm real jacked |
| 1:07.2 | But I weighed myself this morning and I was 197 a leadville. I came in at like 181 way to two |
| 1:14.0 | Apple keeps giving me like a you took a picture of me John at leadville where I was like going like this |
| 1:19.0 | And it's on my iPad and you know apple gives you those photos |
| 1:21.2 | It's like the only photo on my iPad so I see it all the time and I'm like wow you were so skinny back then |
| 1:26.6 | It's I'm gonna hurt Sophie on the flats. That's pretty much it |
| 1:32.2 | Yeah, I was thinking about this yesterday. I wonder what Sophia's thoughts are on all this, you know where she's at with it |
| 1:37.3 | She's okay. She uh because she is the Olympics and then Cape Epic is gonna be her mindset has to change to |
| 1:43.5 | Cape Epic is like a |
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