Parasympathetic Recovery, Attacking, Epsom Salt Baths, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 363
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🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
What can you do to enter a parasympathetic state as quickly as possible post-training, and why is it so hard to achieve sometimes? We’ll cover this and how to build fitness that withstands and doles out attacks, if Epsom salt baths are beneficial for cyclists, and much more in Episode 363 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(01:25) Do epsom salt baths help recovery?
(17:50) How to withstand attacks
(40:18) How to quickly reach a parasympathetic state
(01:09:43) How posture affects breathing
(01:21:57) Training’s effect on urinary urgency
(01:26:45) Live Questions
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated and making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.4 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we just have the geez. I think this is actually the OG OG crew. We just have |
| 0:11.4 | It's not you and Chad or the OG. Yeah, I join up for like four episodes |
| 0:15.6 | That's actually a good point. Yeah, good point Chad. You and I OG |
| 0:22.3 | No, I think that our listeners would revolt if you left they like you so |
| 0:26.0 | Okay, we have our head coach Chad Timmerman and our CEO Nate Pearson. How's it going? Y'all? |
| 0:31.5 | It's going well. Hi |
| 0:33.7 | Sorry, I introduced you guys differently than normal |
| 0:36.7 | Okay, well, let's get into it because today we have Chad is it fair to say like a ton of |
| 0:41.7 | Medium dives, Shmeedium dives not really deep dives today. We have a few |
| 0:45.3 | But I'm gonna be honest and I'm gonna wing the other two because I |
| 0:49.2 | Didn't notice until the last minute that Amber wasn't a contributor |
| 0:52.0 | So I kind of hope that she she would weigh in on some of this. So I'm looking at you you two |
| 0:57.1 | Okay, here we go. We got this Nate put the team on our back |
| 1:00.4 | Oh god |
| 1:02.4 | We just need platter and banter |
| 1:04.5 | That's it. That's it. Okay, well then let's just get straight into it if you're listening on |
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| 1:14.1 | Give us a thumbs up if you're in the live chat |
| 1:15.9 | We may have some time for live questions apparently now that it's up to Nate and I to carry things when it gets to some complicated |
| 1:21.8 | Questions so we'll see how we do |
| 1:23.8 | Okay, let's go first into Gabby's question Gabby says |
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