Pain Tolerance, Pro Athlete Fueling, Cyclocross and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 339
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
How much of your “race fitness” is due to improvements in capacity and how much of it comes from pain tolerance? We’ll cover this and how should average athletes and pro athletes fuel differently, get into cyclocross season and much more in Episode 339 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Intro 0:09
- What has Ivy learned during her CX season so far? 03:16
- Deep dive on pain tolerance and endurance training 19:17
- Rapid fire questions 53:26
- Physical vs. psychological benefits of drafting 1:14:19
- Examining how a specific pro athlete should manage their nutrition 1:19:59
- How average athletes should manage their nutrition 1:30:21
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RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
- The Cerebral Signature for Pain Perception and Its Modulation
- Survey of Chronic Pain in Europe: Prevalence, Impact on Daily Life, and Treatment
- Does exercise induce hypoalgesia through conditioned pain modulation?
- A meta-analytic review of the hypoalgesic effects of exercise
- Dose Response of Isometric Contractions on Pain Perception in Healthy Adults
- Influence of Preferred versus Prescribed Exercise on Pain in Fibromyalgia
- Prescribed Versus Preferred Intensity Resistance Exercise in Fibromyalgia Pain
- Similarities between exercise-induced hypoalgesia and conditioned pain modulation in humans
- Hypoalgesia after bicycling at lactate threshold is reliable between sessions
- Intensity and duration threshold for aerobic exercise-induced analgesia to pressure pain
- Exercise-Induced Hypoalgesia After Isometric Wall Squat Exercise: A Test-Retest Reliability Study
- Sex-Dependent Components of the Analgesia Produced by Athletic Competition
- Changes in Pain Perception and Descending Inhibitory Controls Start at Middle Age in Healthy Adults
- Effects of Mirthful Laughter on Pain Tolerance: A Randomized Controlled Investigation
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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 |
| 0:05.9 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee. We have our head coach Chad Zimmerman with us |
| 0:09.7 | everybody |
| 0:10.7 | We also have oh goodness. I'm gonna read off the name because I'm gonna mess it up |
| 0:14.5 | Hand up plus plus the black bibs racing's IV Audrey and good to have you back IV |
| 0:19.1 | Thanks. Yeah, it's been a minute glad to be back |
| 0:21.6 | So IV's joining us on the road |
| 0:23.6 | She's in the middle of her cyclocross season. So her audio is gonna sound different than normal |
| 0:29.9 | We tried getting a microphone and time and then shipping happened and it got it got delayed so |
| 0:34.8 | But so bear with us with that and then with Chad for some reason Chad if we started a little bit late today |
| 0:40.4 | Chad's internet is just giving him fits today. So |
| 0:43.6 | Let's hope everybody listening say prayers do whatever else you do knock on wood |
| 0:48.6 | To keep Chad with us because Chad might end up cutting out partway through |
| 0:53.1 | We've got a great deep dive and we want to cover it and IV and I are not going to fill those shoes |
| 0:58.2 | so |
| 0:59.7 | if Chad's off sets |
| 1:02.8 | That'll work great if Chad drops off deep dive to be continued at another date IV and I are just gonna talk about cyclocross and that'll be great |
| 1:12.3 | A couple things though. First of all this is episode 339 crazy lots of episodes |
| 1:17.2 | Pretty cool since 2015 we've been going with this podcast helping people and we love it |
| 1:22.0 | And if you find value in this podcast the best thing you could do is share this podcast with others and go check out trainer road.com |
| 1:28.5 | So please do that adapted training is now live a lot of people are using it |
| 1:32.7 | They're already seeing benefits even though it's only been a little over two weeks now since people have seen it |
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