Muscle Fiber Composition, Pro Cyclist Data, Crashing and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 316
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
What muscle fiber type is best for cycling, how do you influence it, and how much of it is genetic? We’ll cover this as well as pro cyclist data and why many athletes don’t share it, how to race in dangerous circumstances and manage crashes and much more in Episode 316 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Intro 0:13
- Jonathan’s learnings from National MTB National Championships 5:41
- Nate is racing again! 39:04
- Why pro cyclists don’t share data 42:47
- A deep dive on muscle fiber composition for cyclists 54:11
- Race-day focus tips 1:20:33
- Publishing data insights from TrainerRoad’s data-set 1:23:52
- Do gels replace aid stations? 1:29:16
- Do recovery shakes get nullified by post-ride meals? 1:31:55
- How to mitigate risk in criterium racing 1:46:08
- How to avoid crashes in a criterium 1:52:23
- Why are cyclists so susceptible to broken collarbones? 1:55:21
- How to learn to crash safely 1:57:46
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RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
- The muscle fiber type-fiber size paradox: hypertrophy or oxidative metabolism?
- Plasticity of human skeletal muscle: gene expression to in vivo function
- Human soleus muscle: A comparison of fiber composition and enzyme activities with other leg muscles
- Adaptations of skeletal muscle to prolonged, intense endurance training
- Mechanical Plasticity: Skeletal Muscle Adaptations
- Strength and muscle adaptations in heavy-resistance-trained women after detraining and retraining
- Human single muscle fibre function with 84 day bed-rest and resistance exercise
- Muscle fiber typology substantially influences time to recover from high-intensity exercise
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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 |
| 0:05.8 | And coach Jonathan Lee we have the original crew with us. We have canadael and trainer roads amber peers. Hello everybody |
| 0:12.1 | Our head coach Chad Zimmerman. All right everyone and |
| 0:15.4 | Our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello. Do you ever like hear that in your thoughts? |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome to the podcast dedicated to make your fast cyclist that's the podcast for trainer roads |
| 0:24.7 | Yes, it's like done a few times |
| 0:26.8 | I always I'm always watching like is he gonna mess it up this time? Is he gonna mess it up? |
| 0:31.0 | But you never do no I had to record the I had to record the one for last week right Maxine asked me to do it our sound engineer |
| 0:37.6 | And it flowed really naturally because I've heard it so many times |
| 0:41.5 | I think that might be the first time I actually spoke it and I didn't even hesitate |
| 0:45.3 | I think it's because you're a pro too Chad, you know, that's that's also why I went well, you know |
| 0:50.4 | So excited to have you all here if you're listening to this you can check out our other podcasts science of getting faster and |
| 0:55.7 | Successful I think it's podcast and also you should subscribe to our blog list our blog mailing list |
| 1:01.1 | I should say just our mailing list words are hard today |
| 1:03.7 | It was because what we're doing within that mailing list is not only sharing the |
| 1:07.8 | Articles that we are awesome copywriters are writing every week |
| 1:10.7 | But we're also putting together like curated |
| 1:13.4 | packages of articles so we'll be putting together ones on things like recovery or doing ones on nutrition and doing on different |
| 1:21.8 | Things such as that so it's cool because you can get like a list of articles that specific for |
| 1:27.0 | Especially what a lot of you were doing right now, which is racing which is gonna compose a huge amount of what we'll talk about today |
| 1:33.0 | A lot of you are getting back to racing and we got an overwhelming amount of people mentioning the fact that they either crashed |
| 1:39.4 | Narely escaped crashes or were terrified by crashes and bike races because you're starting to bike race again, so |
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