Peak Fitness, All-Out Efforts, Elevation Training and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 311
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
How to reach and maintain peak fitness for as long as possible, how many all-out efforts does a rider have each year, how to use elevation training and heat training to get faster and much more in Episode 311 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Intro 0:03
- How long can you sustain peak fitness? 3:52
- How to prioritize events and why it’s important 6:22
- How to perform well year-round 11:01
- How much of peaking is physical vs. mental? 12:46
- Why chronically maintaining a caloric deficit can be dangerous 30:01
- How to fuel recovery rides? 36:11
- How to balance food choices and getting enough calories 47:02
- What impact do team kits have on race tactics? 1:13:12
- Can heat training replace altitude training? 1:17:31
- How to use elevation training to get faster 1:22:46
- Do you have a finite number of “all-out” efforts? 1:31:05
- Is there a cost to overshooting your power targets when training? 1:38:05
- Live questions and answers 1:48:53
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- Heat Training and Endurance Performance with Dr. Chris Minson - https://bit.ly/3cimbxg
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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 |
| 0:05.8 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we have with us. Oh gosh, I messed I messed it up in the time |
| 0:12.6 | The black bids and hand-up gloves IV all drain. Yeah, good morning. I got it |
| 0:18.2 | Well, no, hand up plus the |
| 0:21.4 | Got it backwards again. I almost told you again. I was like there's no way he's I know it's been too many times |
| 0:28.1 | He knows it now. You know, like you just can't remember that I they're just certain things that are tough to stick |
| 0:33.4 | I'm gonna write this down like a kid in detention and like on the chalkboard and just gonna write it down over and over and over until I get |
| 0:39.4 | Straight so and we also have ord steel then Alex wild or in specialized Alex wild |
| 0:45.4 | Hey, everyone you guys just take over for me. I'm screwing up already |
| 0:49.2 | Everyone on the new host the podcast |
| 0:51.2 | I |
| 0:54.7 | See you on a Pearson something hello a sponsor |
| 0:57.6 | Road that's it sponsored by you you I think you messaged me or something you've been training you did a workout the other day |
| 1:05.2 | I did do workouts this week hooray congrats me |
| 1:10.8 | Not really newsworthy, but it's coming. It's it's more than none. So that's good |
| 1:15.9 | I think last time your six week TSS or no your six week like time on bike something like that was really really low |
| 1:22.5 | So I think now I've seen it up I doubled it so no even more wait no I did three I think I trained one two |
| 1:30.7 | Three and a half hours four or five hours this week |
| 1:33.3 | Okay, so this is like a 300 or 400 presenting so it is noteworthy. I don't have offseason now |
| 1:39.6 | Just recover from that |
| 1:41.6 | I'm the recover. Oh, man, it's been hours in there. You got to count those as your training hours. I don't count the gym hours |
| 1:49.3 | But I got I'm doing mostly gym hours |
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