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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Recovery Drinks, Overtraining, Beginner Racing and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 288

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.94.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Are recovery drinks necessary if you are already topped off on carbohydrate, how to recover from overtraining, why stage races may be the best races to start with for beginners and much more in this episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.

 

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE

 

  • Intro and Updates 0:00 - 24:29
  • Are stage races bad for beginners?24:29 - 39:41
  • When to increase training volume 39:41 - 51:54
  • Do you need a recovery drink if you are “topped off” on carbs? 51:54 - 1:44:50
  • Pete’s thoughts on the Speeco Aero Breakaway handlebar 1:44:50 - 1:49:44
  • Tan wall tires: yay or nay? 1:49:44 - 1:51:01
  • Go-to nutrition products for the coaches 1:51:01 - 1:56:32
  • How to recover from overtraining 1:56:32 - 2:09:14

 

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RESOURCES AND STUDIES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

 

- https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/7/1948/htm

- https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/5/1483/htm 

- https://cyclingtips.com/2020/12/the-speeco-aero-breakaway-bar-is-ultrafast-and-ultra-weird/ 

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast. The only podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road

0:06.0

I almost entered on the other podcast to do the successful off the athletes podcast forgive me

0:10.8

This one is presented by trainer road like all of them and we are joined by an awesome crew

0:14.7

We have our we have a trainer road in canondales amber pierce. Good morning

0:21.0

We have a cliff bar racings and also trainer roads peat morris

0:25.9

How's it going guys?

0:27.4

And our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello. We have breaking news john

0:32.5

breaking news and I wish Chad was here

0:35.0

But uh straight out of Cape Town south africa they have pushed Cape epic to october

0:40.0

And uh what happened is they listened to our podcast and heard about Chad's ankle

0:44.3

And say thundering and hunter needs a lot more time

0:48.4

To train so they pushed out to october um that's actually really good though because obviously it's covid related

0:54.4

But so fia inside baseball behind the scene stuff here

0:57.8

So fia was had a pan am's game conflict and she was using that to qualify for the Olympics

1:03.0

So there was a very strong chance that I was I didn't have a teammate and I was gonna find one

1:09.3

Uh, so I had some uh good ones in mind

1:12.4

But now I think it should be great because it's will be post-tolympics for so fia

1:16.5

And uh this is like a more fun event. She has to be super duper fit for it

1:20.0

And I'll have a super screaming fast teammate because she just will hopefully if she qualifies

1:24.8

Have been at the Olympics and then amber that gives us two better time to like get better skills, right?

1:30.7

Oh, yeah

1:32.7

Make really good use of that extra time

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