Pain Tolerance, Body Fat, Descending and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 211
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
What role pain tolerance plays in performance, a deep dive into body fat, how to increase confidence and speed in descents, plus your live questions will all be covered in Episode 211 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- How Nate is becoming a fast descender!
- What is the best mountain bike for a beginner?
- Tips to increase confidence with mountain biking
- Jonathan's bike setup for Leadville
- Tahoe Trail 100 course preview
- Should you avoid events longer than your goal race?
- How to recover from a big race
- How the Leadville corral system works
- How cortisol affects your training
- A deep dive into how your body uses fat
- How to find your w/kg limit
- What role does pain tolerance play in performance?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist |
| 0:04.1 | to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road coach Jonathan Lee this time |
| 0:08.2 | with our head coach Shadson Roman. |
| 0:09.4 | Hi everybody. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome back man. |
| 0:11.4 | Thanks. |
| 0:12.4 | Good to have you and our CEO Nate Pearson. |
| 0:13.4 | Hello. |
| 0:14.4 | And we're going to answer more of the cycling and triathlon related questions that you submitted |
| 0:17.2 | at trainer road calm slash podcast. |
| 0:19.6 | There's something I should talk about first. |
| 0:20.9 | Okay. |
| 0:21.9 | There was a big announcement this week. |
| 0:22.9 | Okay. |
| 0:23.9 | And our world I don't know if you've all heard of it but it might make some people a little |
| 0:27.4 | sad. |
| 0:28.9 | Well I know. |
| 0:29.9 | Like I would promise like things are going to change but some some women a little bit |
| 0:35.6 | of man are sad but Chad to remain off the market. |
| 0:39.2 | Chad proposed. |
| 0:40.2 | I was going to do a challenge. |
| 0:42.0 | Congratulations Chad. |
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