Optimal Body Composition, Breakaway Teamwork, Heartburn and much more – Ask a Cycling Coach 231
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2019
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
Reaching optimal body composition, how to make a breakaway successful, dealing with heartburn while training and much more will be discussed on Episode 231 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- How to deal with heartburn during intense exercise
- Could a road racer build fitness by just doing the bike workouts of a tri plan?
- How to reach an optimal body composition
- Strategies to work as a team and make the breakaway successful
- Getting faster without a power meter
- Are there any gains in using smaller disk brake rotors?
- How to pace the 20 minute FTP Test
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road and coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach |
| 0:07.3 | Shad Simmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello, and this is where we answer the cycling and traf on related questions |
| 0:12.7 | You've submitted at trainer road comms-podcast, which I'm not sure if anything like his change or maybe we've explained |
| 0:18.7 | Something better but you guys have been submitting really good questions lately like real a broad variety of questions |
| 0:23.7 | It's been really fun. So I read all of those every week |
| 0:26.7 | So it's a lot of questions, but please keep doing so we really appreciate it. Should we just get straight into the job postings |
| 0:34.0 | We said we're gonna mention that first last week. We have two postings still open one for copywriter |
| 0:39.7 | There's a lot of people so if you want to have the |
| 0:42.5 | Be part of that submit soon and then react |
| 0:46.8 | Slash react native engineers. We still have some openings for that. We were filling a bunch of rolls for it |
| 0:52.0 | So yep, not too late you can find those at trainer road comms-jobs |
| 0:56.1 | And I said is that it on that's it. Let's get straight into questions then how about that the first one's from Maddie |
| 1:01.7 | He says hi guys first off. Thanks for an amazing podcast |
| 1:04.4 | I stumbled on to the podcast while discovering my newfound love of cycling |
| 1:08.1 | Proud to say your podcast has driven me driven me to become a trainer road user. So kudos awesome. Thanks Maddie |
| 1:13.3 | Thanks for trusting us |
| 1:14.7 | Says I played hockey my entire life |
| 1:16.6 | I'm gonna guess this fellist from Canada in this case a |
| 1:20.7 | Any is actually I read ahead I cheated he says I played hockey my entire life more recreationally than high level |
| 1:26.3 | And it was basically my main source of exercise up until about two and a half years ago when I was severely injured and realized |
| 1:32.1 | I needed to hang up the skates like adult onset cycling is a super common thing right it's |
| 1:38.3 | It's when you break your body doing something |
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