Rest & Recovery, Motorpacing, Short Zone 2 Workouts & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 196
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2019
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
A deep dive on rest and recovery for athletes, getting into the specifics of motorpacing and why it is a good training tool, and why short Zone 2 workouts are more valuable than you think.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• How to travel like a bike racer
• Are short Zone 2 workouts important or just filler?
• How to fit training into a busy schedule
• What is a typical schedule like for the podcast hosts?
• Why you should try motorpacing
• What is the point of motorpacing
• What is the difference between rest, recovery and taper weeks?
• How to get the most out of recovery weeks
• Why it's so hard to return to training
• How to adjust your training if your goal event is delayed?
• What effect does a mid-workout break have on your fitness?
More training questions answered here: bit.ly/Training-Questions-Help-Center
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LINKS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST
• Yeti Rambler 1 gallon jug: www.yeti.com/en_US/drinkware/ra…ug/YRAMONEJUG.html
• Feedback sports bike stand: www.feedbacksports.com/product/rakk-black/
• Rain Bag by SciCon: us.sciconbags.com/products/shop-by…rs/race-rain-bag
• Zipp Triathlon Bag: www.zipp.com/accessories/detail.php?ID=30035
• Zone 2 Forum Post: Are there any benefits to short Z2 workouts?
• Amy’s Lentil and Vegetible Soup: www.amys.com/our-foods/organic-…til-vegetable-soup
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody and welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist that ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach, Chad Zimmerman, everybody, our CEO Nate Pearson. |
| 0:10.2 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:11.4 | Nate got here just in time today, just fresh back from a conference. |
| 0:15.0 | We're here to answer your cycling and triathlon related questions that you've submitted through trainer road.com slash podcast. |
| 0:20.8 | You appreciate you guys doing that continue to do that. |
| 0:23.0 | I recently asked for people to send in their most simple or perhaps most vexing questions, whatever they may have. |
| 0:28.2 | And I feel like the quality of questions has gone up like dramatically and the quantity. |
| 0:32.4 | So thank you guys. |
| 0:33.4 | Really appreciate that. |
| 0:35.3 | Well, with this, uh, what makes a, what makes a bad question? |
| 0:39.7 | And what makes a good question? |
| 0:41.2 | Okay. |
| 0:41.5 | So a bad question is when somebody has a situation that's so unique to them that it isn't applicable to many. |
| 0:47.3 | There's no learnings. |
| 0:48.3 | Yeah, because, you know, if I'm asking about a very specific thing, I learn, but, you know, the, the, the many, many, many other people listening to the podcast don't learn it. |
| 0:56.6 | Don't get too special snowflake with it. |
| 0:58.4 | Yeah, but sometimes you could be a little special snowflake. |
| 1:00.5 | A little, but there's actually like, because it has a broader application. |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah, we do one step back and there's a huge principle behind it. |
| 1:07.9 | One that I see commonly are one style of question that I see commonly submitted is when people |
| 1:14.8 | don't provide the detail that we would really need. |
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