Sprinting, Excessive Sugar, Active Recovery, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 370
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🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 139 minutes
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Summary
There’s a common mistake that many cyclists make that could be hurting their sprint power. Join Coach Chad, Ivy Audrain, Nate Pearson, and Coach Jonathan for a discussion on this, when should you launch your sprint, what happens when you take in too much sugar on the bike, the scientific research on whether it’s better to spin lightly or stop pedaling between intervals, and more in Episode 370 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
(23:16) Does spinning between intervals really help?
(38:37) Best and worst upgrade ROIs for cyclists
(01:16:55) What happens when you take in too much sugar on the bike?
(01:46:56) Is it bad to be the first to sprint?
(01:58:46) An easy way to raise your sprint power
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to make you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.2 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee. We have with us squid bikes. I've yadrain |
| 0:09.4 | Hi, how's it going? Hi good |
| 0:12.8 | All right coach Chad Zimmerman. Hi everyone and our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello |
| 0:18.0 | Hey, like I got you're a little early |
| 0:22.1 | Interesting because I kind of feel like the exact opposite but hey, you know what we're here. I like there's a lot of time |
| 0:27.2 | Yeah, yeah, it was at least like more 45 seconds |
| 0:33.5 | It's good to have you may actually I'm excited that well first of all things we're gonna talk about today |
| 0:38.0 | We're gonna talk about sprinting some tactics but also like some some other details about sprinting and cadence and |
| 0:43.9 | Maybe the thing that you're missing and why you're sprinting power isn't so high and why you're sprinting is an effective |
| 0:49.4 | So we're gonna talk about that. I think I know about oh, okay, that's |
| 0:53.6 | Open loop. Let's go. There we go excessive sugar what happens and you take in too much sugar and how you can change that |
| 1:02.0 | Active recovery versus passive recovery and more but first Nate we have to talk about Tahoe trail 100 because IV and I are doing this in two weeks |
| 1:09.8 | We are the relay team |
| 1:11.6 | Where I don't know who IV have you looked at the registration list. I haven't I should see no don't be that |
| 1:17.6 | Okay |
| 1:19.6 | Well, the the team that that does really well there is Levi Leipheimer and his girlfriend |
| 1:24.2 | They're no longer getting race together. They're not well. Yeah, yeah, so I |
| 1:29.6 | I don't they're she moved so |
| 1:32.3 | She's not in this region, but Levi you know, Levi might show up with his with his partner. I don't know |
| 1:37.7 | Because she also races the current one. I don't know, but I imagine Levi will be there |
| 1:43.0 | Friend of the podcast good dude, but I don't know man |
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