Off Season, Power Imbalances, Workout Fuel Timing and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 234
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
How to plan your offseason, fixing power imbalances, optimal timing for workout fuel and more will be covered in Episode 234 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- How long should your off season be?
- Why you should not immediately start a Build Phase after time off
- Deep dive on how and when you should fuel your workouts
- Is it bad to change position during VO2 max intervals?
- What to do if you have a left / right power imbalance
- Coach Chad's tips on how to read while on the trainer
- Entertainment options on the trainer
- Do athletes need more cooling as they adapt to putting out more power?
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Transcript
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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. I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timmerman hard, but our CEO Nate Pearson. |
| 0:10.4 | Jet we need to talk about the elephant in the room. Whoa. All right. It's coming right. He's coming in hot. I have no clue what he's talking about. |
| 0:19.0 | Jonathan. So if you're if you're driving right now pull over open up YouTube, Jonathan has a wonderful beer. I don't know how you grew this thing so fast, but it came out of nowhere. |
| 0:29.4 | And now you look like a mountain man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, snow is arrived. |
| 0:33.7 | And then as such, you know, yeah, it's a bird on this legit like you grew it in well. Yeah, I can grow. I can grow a good beard. Yeah, it grows and feels |
| 0:41.2 | and quick too. So this is like a came out of nowhere. This is like a week in a half or two weeks. Yeah, two weeks of beard growing. |
| 0:47.3 | Anyways, hi, everybody. And the interesting thing about that is somehow, well, I guess your beard interesting. |
| 0:52.5 | Is there some? No, believe it or not. I still don't understand how specialized release that video where they said like |
| 0:58.7 | Beards like didn't have an effect. Oh, yeah, I guess it makes sense if it's close to your face, right? It doesn't really matter |
| 1:04.9 | But I feel like if you've got something like big beard like I want to see Pete in the wind tunnel. What you're saying is quite a beard |
| 1:10.0 | You're saying is that it didn't add any measurable amount of extra drag in their wind tunnel. Correct. Thank you. Yeah, but I'd like to see someone like a giant |
| 1:17.5 | Santa Claus. Yeah, even like a Pete beard right because Pete's like expands the size of his face and even kind of maybe flares out. I don't know |
| 1:24.4 | Maybe though. Well, no, I don't know. The interesting. It seems like it should. Yeah, I bet they have better things to do than just to solve our beard questions though. So |
| 1:34.0 | I'm sure they do, but it's interesting. First things first some job postings Nate that we should probably discuss. Yep. |
| 1:40.5 | locally we're still hiring the customer support team options. So if you're from the Reno Tahoe area and you'd be interested in joining the support team |
| 1:47.4 | We'd love to have you so you can apply there. Chain Rob dot com slash jobs and the product marketing manager type of this last week |
| 1:53.8 | That is using data to guide our marketing efforts and then react and react native engineers still hiring them. We've been hiring them the whole time, but it's |
| 2:04.8 | It's awesome. The more we have the faster we can go. So thank you. And the more we can release that makes you faster. That's the whole point. |
| 2:10.9 | So this is where we answer the cycling and triathlon related questions that you guys submit and you can do that at trainer road.com slash podcast |
| 2:17.6 | for you guys and gals. Forgive me. And thank you so much for doing that. It's been it's awesome every week to go through and read those questions. |
| 2:24.5 | I wish we could answer them all, but we'll go through about I think we have nine on the list today that we're going to go through an answer. And also you can join us on YouTube |
| 2:32.6 | Every usually it's every Thursday at 8 a.m. Pacific, but today's Wednesday because tomorrow's a holiday. We'll get into that a bit. |
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