Rest Week Nutrition, Air Density, Smelling Salts and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 307
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
Why are you always hungry during rest weeks and what can you do about it? Does air density affect physiological performance, and can smelling salts make you faster? Tune into Episode 307 of the Ask a Cycling Coach for these topics and much more!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
Welcome back to Amber and Nate! 0:00:11
Takeaways from Jonathan’s first MTB race in over a year 0:17:18
Polarized Training Plans update 0:35:02
Does air density affect performance? 0:38:45
How to maintain a healthy relationship with training 0:46:33
Rapid-fire questions 1:10:44
Training for weight loss 1:27:17
Why you are hungry during rest weeks and what to do about it 1:34:23
Can smelling salts make you faster? 1:46:40
Live questions and answers 1:52:03
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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 cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.6 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we almost have the original crew back here with us right now |
| 0:09.8 | We have a all start with Amber canondale and trainer roads amber Pierce. Hey everybody good to have you back Amber |
| 0:16.7 | We have our see back our CEO Nate Pearson. You call me trainer roads Nate Pearson |
| 0:21.6 | trainer roads and Pearson. Thank you. We have Cliff bar and trainer roads Pete Morris. How's it going guys? |
| 0:28.7 | Good to have you Pete. This is gonna be a fun crew |
| 0:31.0 | We're going to discuss the questions that you submitted at trainer road calm slash podcast |
| 0:35.1 | And if you haven't done that yet or you haven't done it in a while submit any questions you have there |
| 0:38.8 | We'd love to hear from you and also you can check out the science of getting faster podcasts and successful athletes podcasts |
| 0:44.5 | Links are down in the description below. We have some more content with those podcasts coming up here really soon |
| 0:49.5 | It's exciting stuff. So tune into that job postings. We should talk about that first Nate. Do you want to take us through that? |
| 0:55.3 | Yeah, first one vice-posed engineering |
| 0:57.3 | I mentioned that on the podcast and I feel so bad because we never actually posted it the recruiter we got an ideal candidate |
| 1:05.1 | Amber you like you pumped |
| 1:07.1 | Yes, very very pumped. Yeah, so I'm sorry, but we we won with her and she's really really good and I don't think I can't imagine a better candidate |
| 1:16.7 | so Stephanie where she's gonna join soon and |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah, so I'm sorry though for people. I know people got the Rosemales ready and to like apply for it |
| 1:26.5 | And yeah, sorry second one. We have two other job postings |
| 1:30.3 | We have app developers for react react native typescript mob X that kind of stack |
| 1:35.3 | To build features for trainer road and also software engineers C sharp back in web Azure to handle the data stuff |
| 1:42.7 | Both are very |
| 1:43.9 | Granal they're cool jobs. You might be under Pete. You might be under Amber. I've been another product manager |
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