Road Tactics, Ice Baths, Body Fat scales & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 174
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Join us live for today's episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast! We'll review a list of scenarios you can keep ready to manage every race situation, discuss whether ice baths are effective or not, tell you which body fat scales you can trust, and much more.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Live podcast party during Interbike!
- What to do if you get stung by a bee in a race
- Why is your bike uncomfortable on the trainer?
- How to select ideal races
- How to analyze course profiles
- What tactics to expect for different course profiles
- Do ice baths help recovery and performance?
- How aggressive should you be in a race?
- How to maintain a cool head in race scenarios
- Why do you get a cough after hard training or racing?
- Are body fat scales inaccurate?
More training questions answered here: bit.ly/Training-Questions-Help-Center
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LINKS TO MENTIONED PRODUCTS:
- Knog BC554Bell Link: https://www.knog.com.au/oi-bike-bells.html
- Tanita BC-554 IronMan Body Composition Monitor: https://www.tanita.com/en/bc554/
- Nokia Body Cardio Wifi Scale: https://health.nokia.com/us/en/body-cardio
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast. It's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist that ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road. |
| 0:06.2 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman. |
| 0:08.6 | Hi, buddy. Our CEO Nate Pearson. Hey, hey, this is where we answer more of your cycling and |
| 0:12.4 | traffic on related questions that you submit at trainerroad.com slash podcast or |
| 0:16.7 | and the different areas where you can find us on the internet. We have an |
| 0:20.3 | ICCI CLINCOCHE podcast Facebook group. We have something interesting coming up that will also |
| 0:23.9 | announce along those lines coming soon. This is basically the spot where you can get all those |
| 0:29.5 | questions answered. One quick announcement that we have for this for this podcast is next week is |
| 0:35.2 | Interby Caron and Reno this time we don't have to go to Vegas. I think we're all kind of silently or |
| 0:40.3 | perhaps even vocally cheer you. Yes, you're right about that. You know that in Vegas everyone knows that. |
| 0:45.3 | That's for darn sure. For those that don't know it's it's quite a long ways away. We're |
| 0:49.6 | much closer like Tahoe and Northern California. We're farther west than LA. I always blow with people's mind. |
| 0:54.8 | Yeah, I just blew Chad's mind. No, I think that's yeah. So we're going to be here. |
| 1:01.2 | It should be nice. Which also means that our office is here, which means that we should have a |
| 1:05.5 | live podcast recording party with all of you who are listening to this. You can join us live in |
| 1:11.2 | person if you're going to be in the region. Plenty of industry folks will be there. If you know |
| 1:15.7 | somebody going, please let them know about this and we'll have a post later in our Facebook podcast |
| 1:19.8 | group about this. But also if you are just going to join from afar you'll be able to join us |
| 1:24.5 | on a live stream. It'll be later in the evening. If you're in the region come to our office, |
| 1:29.8 | which you'll be able to find that once you end the Facebook podcast group at 6.30 pm. So the show |
| 1:34.1 | ends at 6. That day the the inner bike trade show. So you'll just be able to roll right over. We'll |
| 1:38.6 | have dinner and snacks and everything else and drinks for all of you. And today is September 13, |
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