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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Nose Breathing, Recovery Drinks, Double Days and More – Ask a Cycling a Coach 187

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.9 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

 

Join us for Episode 187 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast! Topics to be discussed: does nose breathing actually improve performance, are recovery drinks essential, why and when you should consider double days and more!

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE

 

  • The best way to measure your power-to-weight ratio
  • How to calm pre-race nerves
  • Are recovery shakes actually necessary?
  • Why and when to use double days in your training
  • Does nose breathing help performance?
  • How to win a Cat 5 crit

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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

0:05.6

I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman. All right, buddy

0:08.6

RC E on 8 Pearson. Hello the bands back together again, and I also I apologize

0:13.6

I'm real good. Yeah, I apologize for the voice

0:16.8

I've been out with the with a flu and whole a whole bunch of stuff

0:19.8

But we're back at 100 today so

0:22.4

Even though I don't sound it so I apologize. I'll try to talk very little this episode

0:26.0

I'll need you guys to have to listen to it. Some of the people just were like, uh, this relaxed

0:29.8

It's like collective style really. Yeah

0:33.4

So as I said this is the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road and we've got a ton of new things coming out right now

0:40.6

In fact, if you have a trainer road account

0:42.5

You can check something out that we have it's actually called interval search and you can so basically like yeah

0:48.0

Yeah, yeah, it's it's pretty cool

0:49.4

So basically like I've had situations where I've done a crit and I've like blown up in the crit

0:56.2

And I look back at it and I think chances are I pace this poorly

0:59.8

So then I look at it and I say how many times did I go over and I'll throw out like a relatively arbitrary number to start with like

1:05.8

How many times did I go over 600 watts and you can actually do that with interval search you can say

1:10.8

Intervals over 600 watts and it'll highlight them for you. Yeah for this amount of seconds

1:14.7

So the cool part is there's two ways to do it one is you can type it and say how many times did I go

1:21.0

I won't say 600 I say over 400 for a minute right and then we'll find all those intervals for you

1:25.4

But the other way that you can do it is even when you're just selecting now

1:29.8

Anything on your workout. So when you click and drag and highlight something

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