Shaving and Thermoregulation, Heat Training, Openers and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 359
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(01:52) How does body hair affect evaporative cooling?
(11:49) How to find the minimum effective dose with heat training?
(26:54) Should openers vary depending on discipline or the athlete?
(43:34) How to reduce bodily fatigue from long rides
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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 coach Jonathan Lee |
| 0:06.5 | We have trainer road and canondales amber pierce good morning |
| 0:09.8 | We have our head coach Chad Zimmerman everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson who's smiling and it's making me nervous |
| 0:17.0 | The difference between those two vibes |
| 0:19.6 | Amber and Chad there's a big |
| 0:21.9 | Someone wants to be here. Let's get this. Let's get this in someone. It's here |
| 0:24.8 | I love you |
| 0:26.8 | I'm just a very serious guy |
| 0:32.7 | Today we're going to answer your questions about shaving and thermo regulation in other words does shaving help or |
| 0:38.7 | Hinder or have any effect on your body's ability to cool itself and evaporate of cooling |
| 0:43.8 | We're going to talk about heat training and some specifics on it how to find the minimum effective dose and how to catch yourself if you're doing the maximum effective dose |
| 0:51.4 | We're going to talk about some more stuff. It's all gonna make you faster. So stay tuned. It's gonna be awesome |
| 0:55.7 | We're also going to limit this week's podcast to an hour as an experiment |
| 1:00.0 | We I was kind of surprised in the recent podcast survey that we did not a lot of folks said that they wanted the podcast to be shorter |
| 1:06.8 | But we want to try it just the same so |
| 1:09.2 | If you like this hour let us know and tell us because feedback is we're completely guided by your feedback on this podcast |
| 1:15.4 | so if you prefer to be an hour |
| 1:17.4 | Let us know I know Chad |
| 1:19.5 | Amber and |
| 1:21.0 | Nate and I would also prefer it be an hour too. So if you guys like this I like to do whatever you like |
| 1:26.1 | What will happen John is the feedback will be 50% two hours 50% one hour |
| 1:30.9 | This is what we typically see with things like they will say I will not listen unless you do |
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