Welcome to the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by Trainer Road.

And today we have Alex Larson with us at from Alex Larson Nutrition.

Alex, we've had you on the podcast plenty of times before.

If people don't know, you can go and actually, you can contact Alex.

Find her on Instagram, go to her website, and then you can actually get awesome guidance,

nutrition from an actual registered dietitian and somebody that knows what they're doing

that's training alongside you that's doing all this stuff uh Alex it's good to have you um thanks for

having me back yeah and I want to I want to get into your training and because you've been

training a lot and like in the past I guess really it's what, past four or five months? Is that right?

I started the end of October. So I think we're like four months, at least four months in. And I'm like sipping the Kool-Aid. Like I'm chugging the Kool-Aid.

You're in. Like, I'm so in. And I used to kind of joke about like cyclists getting into um

like the numbers you know like oh i want my FTP here or my power to right here and i was like

yeah let's like the numbers are great but let's you know make sure you feel like all these other

things and now i'm like honing in on my numbers. And I'm just like,

oh man, yeah, I'm sipping the Kool-Aid. I'm in this now.

You're locked in. We're going to get to that. We're also going to get to a question that James,

one of the one of you, one of our listeners has submitted. James asks a few questions.

We're going to talk about artificial sweeteners. We're going to talk about losing fat fast. We're also going to talk about cheap alternatives, which Alex and I, before we got recording, already got super psyched on one that I've found in my pantry that I'm really excited about. It's already in my grocery cart on the nap. It's going to be a good one. Stay tuned for it. Before we go further on that, though, I do want to mention, you should join the Zwift Club. It's the fastest growing club on Zwift right now. I think that, you know, we were into the tens of thousands when we first started out a week or a few weeks ago, two and a half weeks ago. And now we're already up to, I think, like, somewhere around 30th and we're going to keep going. So we're over 4,000 people in there.

We want to get to over 60,000. So jump in, go join the Zwift Club. I'm going to put the link down below.

That's the trainer road Zwift Club. You can just search for it or hit the link. them outside you just do wherever they show up trainer road takes care of all the details for you it's pretty darn sweet so

this morning I did a ride with a bunch of folks on there we have races a race scheduled on

Friday hopefully I can make it. My PT appointment got changed,

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