Secret Pro Tips to Getting Faster – Ask a Cycling Coach 399
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 19 January 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(0:00) Meet pro XC MTB racer, Savilia Blunk!
(0:42) How to manage emotions in a race
(7:04) MTB pacing strategies from the pros
(11:55) What Savilia does to become such a good bike handler
(17:08) How to use your autonomic nervous system to get more from your workouts
(49:34) How XC MTB pros manage racing short track and XCO with such little time between
(01:07:00) The one thing coaches wish more athletes did to get faster
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Asuka Cycling Coach Podcast |
| 0:02.3 | presented by trainer Rode. |
| 0:03.3 | Today we have a special guest with us. |
| 0:05.5 | We have Savilia Blunk from the Rock Rider MTB World Cup Elite |
| 0:09.8 | team. |
| 0:10.1 | It's exciting to have you here. |
| 0:11.2 | We're going to talk about all sorts of questions, |
| 0:13.2 | but really we're going to get into some secret tips, |
| 0:15.4 | so to speak, on some different things about how Savilia is so fast. |
| 0:18.6 | We also have Coach Chad with us. |
| 0:20.0 | We also have Squid, Bike, Sivia, Drain. |
| 0:23.4 | Savilia, first things, I'm just going to get straight into it. |
| 0:26.0 | A question from Moira, because this is something |
| 0:28.3 | that's been sent in for quite some time, |
| 0:30.6 | and she was hoping that we would have you on at some point. |
| 0:33.2 | And I should have followed up earlier to have you on. |
| 0:35.1 | But I'm just going to read her question. |
| 0:36.4 | And then that's a great way to introduce you |
| 0:37.9 | and to get into the whole thing. |
| 0:39.0 | So Moira says, hey, podcast host. |
| 0:41.7 | My name is Moira, and I'm a podcast newbie. |
| 0:44.0 | My husband got me into Mountain Biking last year, |
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