Rest Intervals, Minimalist Training, Race Plans and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 365
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
Amber, Coach Chad, and Coach Jonathan cover how shortening or increasing the intensity of rest between intervals affects adaptations, what the least amount of training is that you can do to get faster or maintain fitness, Ambers tips for how to build a race plan, and more importantly, how to stick to it or adapt mid-race, and much more. Join us for Episode 365 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(03:01) How long do rest intervals need to be?
(29:23) How to build and follow a race plan?
(01:19:04) Is there a minimum to how much you need to train?
(01:36:05) How race strategy changes for stage racing
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist ask a cycling coach podcast |
| 0:04.1 | resented by trainer road. This is episode 365 guys and gal. This is awesome. I know we have with us |
| 0:10.8 | our head coach Chad Timberman. Everybody and trainer road in canondales and repairs. Hey everybody. |
| 0:16.5 | It's just us three the musketeers. We're gonna take you on. What's that? We get to go deep on the |
| 0:22.2 | product road map giveaway all the secrets. Here we go. We get to do whatever we want. It's |
| 0:30.3 | going to be a good one. We're going to talk about rest intervals. That's actually the first question |
| 0:34.3 | we're going to get to today. The whole point behind them shrinking them for intense or intentions |
| 0:40.0 | of getting faster all that stuff. This is going to be a good conversation on that. We're going to |
| 0:44.6 | talk about getting fast on as little training as possible. We're also going to talk about race |
| 0:48.8 | plans in amber. This is like so well in your wheelhouse being the super domestic that you were. |
| 0:53.3 | We're going to be talking all about building a race plan and sticking to it. Another question is |
| 0:57.9 | too. If you're joining us in the live chat right now on YouTube give us a thumbs up. That would be |
| 1:01.7 | super helpful. That makes it so that other people will see this. YouTube will push the video to |
| 1:05.9 | other people and they'll be able to join and learn and get faster too. And if you're listening |
| 1:09.6 | on any podcast app, thank you so much. Rate the podcast if you can five stars and let's get |
| 1:15.9 | into it. So before we are on the forum last week. First of all, we had a discussion of gears |
| 1:23.7 | with Chad that race, which we don't know if that's going to be the name, but doing a race up in the |
| 1:29.6 | Spokane area possibly we're entertaining this idea. And there's a massive amount of interest. |
| 1:36.1 | I think that I checked and this weekend with just like the questions we got through the podcast |
| 1:40.2 | because we asked people to submit their interest there on the forum and overwhelming amount. |
| 1:44.6 | There are a lot of people that want this. So we'll see. We're going to have to find a lot of |
| 1:49.5 | things like a good race organizer that can work with Chad to build the right course, a brewery, |
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