Power Curves, Plateaus, Growth Hacking and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 264
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
Learn how to analyze your power curve to help direct your training, what to do to end a plateau in your fitness, a deep dive into if training your ability to handle a higher cognitive load will make you faster and more in Episode 264 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- How to push past plateaus in your fitness
- Why you don’t need to train as long as your goal events
- How to train weaknesses in your power curve
- Tubeless setups tips for MTB to road
- Training your ability to handle a higher cognitive load
- How to get structured workouts with TrainerRoad on a budget
- How to figure out how much to increase your FTP to progress your training
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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 |
| 0:04.0 | Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we |
| 0:07.9 | have our head coach Chad Timmerman with us. Hi everybody. We have our CEO Nate |
| 0:12.2 | Pearson. Hello. And we have Candidale and trainer roads Amber Pierce. Good |
| 0:17.3 | morning. And we're going to answer more of the cycling and triathlon related |
| 0:20.5 | questions that you submitted at trainerroad.com slash podcast. And you can do |
| 0:24.8 | that every week and every week we will come through all the ones that you |
| 0:27.4 | submit. So thanks for doing that. It's awesome. That's so great to have so many |
| 0:30.4 | people sending in those questions all the time. Nate first things first a product |
| 0:34.1 | announcement. We should probably cut straight to that and then we'll get into |
| 0:36.7 | some more stuff. Yeah cool. Few new cool things. First we have a new onboarding |
| 0:41.3 | experience on the website. So if you have so many that's just during a trainer |
| 0:44.1 | road. It's we've been testing it for a while and it's been really good. Second we |
| 0:47.8 | have a new onboarding experience in the desktop app. That's on Windows or Mac. |
| 0:52.6 | Third group workout improvements. We have it where there's now a visual |
| 0:56.9 | indication of who's talking just like zoom. Second you can also choose your |
| 1:01.1 | first name rather than your username in settings. So it was kind of weird |
| 1:05.8 | before because you'd be like big legs 23. And instead of just saying Jonathan. So |
| 1:12.8 | now you can make it so it says your first name all the time. To be clear that |
| 1:15.5 | is not my user name. And I don't even have big legs. So yeah. That's his tick |
| 1:20.6 | talk name. And then the next you can show target target of FTP instead of |
| 1:26.2 | raw lock. So some people requested that. It could either be you don't you |
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