Sprint Power, Mental Limits, Comfort and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 262
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
Training tips to increase your peak sprint power, how to sustainably push your physical and mental limits, techniques to improve your comfort on the bike and more in Episode 262 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- A recap on Round 3 of the LIVE Group Ramp Test
- What happened to Nate?
- Jonathan’s new tip to improve your Outside Workouts
- Training tips to improve your peak sprint power
- How to sustainably push your physical and mental limits
- Techniques to improve your comfort on the bike
- Did Amber actually go to failure on the last LIVE Group Ramp Test?
- How your Specialty Phase can get too hard to complete
- How to pause your Outside Workout when you need more time for a rest interval
- Is carbon better than alloy for MTB handle bars?
- Nate’s recommendation for protein powder
- Is it possible to make fitness gains too fast?
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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 |
| 0:05.5 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee. We have our head coach Chad Timberman with us |
| 0:09.3 | Everybody our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:11.7 | Hello and trainer road and canadale's amber peers |
| 0:16.0 | We're gonna answer more of the cycling and traf on related questions that you submitted today |
| 0:20.1 | Specifically ones on sprint power ones on mental limits and then also on comfort and a couple of the things too like limited |
| 0:26.4 | training schedules. So if you join us on YouTube |
| 0:29.2 | You can actually look through on the video which you can join us live |
| 0:32.2 | Which thanks for everybody for joining us live and give us a thumbs up if you're watching right now |
| 0:35.9 | That'll help more people see it |
| 0:37.4 | But if you come and watch the podcast on YouTube |
| 0:39.9 | We can actually segment it into chapters so then you can click ahead and see the questions |
| 0:44.7 | It's a super handy tool and then we're also going to be implementing that across on podcasts as well |
| 0:49.6 | So you can see that which is gonna be pretty exciting |
| 0:52.8 | So we'll have chapters included for for all of you that are listening to it should make it even easier to listen to |
| 0:57.7 | That's like the number one requested feature, right correct |
| 1:00.7 | Yeah, it's so awesome to have it now built into the app |
| 1:03.3 | So we don't have to or to the product so we don't have to like look down at the bottom |
| 1:06.3 | It's you'll see it when it happens. It's so cool. Yeah, but I want to give serious props to producer Tucker |
| 1:11.2 | He's been killed it on this. Yep |
| 1:13.2 | Thanks Tucker and then also you can go through and at any point if you do have questions on where something is |
| 1:19.3 | Where a question is addressed within the podcast you can just go into the description down below and in almost every case |
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