Scientific Off-Season Recommendations for Cyclists – Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 445
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 19 October 2023
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(0:00) Welcome!
(1:00) Quick guide on what to do if you can’t put out as much power indoors
(10:32) Science-backed recommendations for cyclists on how to take an off-season
(42:40) Adding extra riding to your training plan: Should you do it?
(55:36) Why do you taste blood in your mouth during hard efforts, and is it bad?
1:02:51) How to not lose positions in a start
(1:11:52) Imbalances in your pedal stroke and what to do with them
(1:15:18) When you can skip warmups
RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
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https://www.trainerroad.com/blog/detraining-what-happens-when-you-lose-fitness/
STUDIES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE
https://trainerroad.cc/Maldonado-Martin2016
https://trainerroad.cc/Ronnestad2014
https://trainerroad.cc/Almquist2020
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist. |
| 0:02.6 | Ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road today. |
| 0:05.2 | We are going to talk all about off seasons. |
| 0:08.1 | But we're going to talk about like instead of just like these empirical |
| 0:10.3 | recommendations or like, you know, that sort of thing. |
| 0:12.6 | We're going deep into science in terms of what science says we should do and not |
| 0:16.2 | do for an off season. |
| 0:17.7 | We're also going to talk about why you taste blood during hard efforts. |
| 0:20.2 | Tons of other stuff. |
| 0:20.8 | It's going to be great. |
| 0:21.7 | We have L.E.L. apparel and Ventum cyclings. |
| 0:24.2 | I've got a drain. |
| 0:25.1 | It's up. |
| 0:25.4 | Hi, I'm Jonathan. |
| 0:26.4 | I almost called you Ventum. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm Ventum. |
| 0:29.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.0 | I am like. |
| 0:32.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:33.2 | Well, you're going to get into the science of off season. |
| 0:36.0 | And I'm just going to support you. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, good team, good team. |
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