Running Out of Matches, VO2 Training for Steady State Athletes and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 151
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2018
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
How to avoid running out of "matches", should steady state athletes skip VO2 training, a testing protocol for different positions and more in the Episode 151 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• TrainerRoad's new fitness testing protocol
• How much difference can you expect in FTP on your TT bike?
• What is the difference between saddle soreness and saddle sores
• How to treat saddle sores
• How to test power output in different positions
• Should steady state athletes skip VO2 work?
• Is it bad to do an interval workout after a long ride?
• Are "matches" real?
• How to get more matches for cycling
• Can you cram train for fitness?
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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 |
| 0:06.0 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello |
| 0:10.9 | You guys feel really tall to me today |
| 0:12.9 | If anybody's listening to the or listening to the podcast you can also watch us live join us live and sending your questions live |
| 0:20.9 | You can do that on Facebook or YouTube and it usually happens on Thursdays at 8 a.m. Pacific |
| 0:25.6 | Sometimes there's some changes |
| 0:27.2 | Next week we actually won't be having a live podcast because we'll be at sea otter. We're recording a special podcast though |
| 0:34.1 | It's gonna be really cool. Should we just leave the the topic a secret name or should we tease it? |
| 0:38.4 | No, it's easy cool. So we're going to be talking about bike setups that make you faster with some of the guys from team Cliff bar and then |
| 0:45.5 | Envy as well. So they're gonna kind of bring the science and reasoning behind why those sort of choices equipment choices or setup choices might be a good decision |
| 0:55.0 | It's gonna be interesting stuff. I know envy puts a ton of work into testing and R&D |
| 0:59.7 | They don't release as many products as many other companies because they put in more focus on testing things and building things right |
| 1:05.9 | It seems so it should be really cool to talk to them |
| 1:08.4 | So we'll be doing that world be to recording that live from sea otter |
| 1:11.7 | So if you have questions about that sort of thing like for example one thing that that was shared with us from |
| 1:18.2 | Pete Morris who you heard on the podcast recently |
| 1:20.6 | He actually runs his bars or his stack way lower than what he usually would on his race bike |
| 1:26.4 | And the reason that he does that is because he's found that he's more powerful and more effective for crit racing when he isn't in the drops |
| 1:32.4 | But he's kind of laid down on the hoods |
| 1:34.5 | So his hoods are almost in the drops position of where his handlebars would normally be and then on top of that |
| 1:40.2 | He runs a handlebar that flares out at the end and |
| 1:43.6 | That flare he says is intentional |
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