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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Stage Race Pro Tips, Long Distance Training, Muscle Activation and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 240

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.9 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

Stage race pro tips, training for long events, muscle activation for proper mechanics and more is all covered in Episode 240 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • How to plan your training for a season with multiple A races
  • How to fit weight training into your cycling season
  • Pro tips for muscle activation and correct mechanics
  • Does Olympic distance triathlon training translate to the full distance?
  • How to find your identity as a cyclist
  • Dealing with sore legs after a mid-ride break
  • Pro tips to develop a stage race strategy

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road and coach Jonathan Lee and we do not have our normal guests with us today

0:12.0

We have product manager and cliff our racing's Pete Morris. How's it going guys and we also have another product manager and Ken Dill

0:20.1

Racing's Amber Pierce hello and Nate is at Disneyland right now

0:24.7

He's actually probably going to be listening to this and jumping in he already jumped into the dock that we have that we kind of go off of

0:31.0

I see that he's changed some things so we'll probably get him jumping in

0:34.4

Maybe he'll be in a live chat on YouTube and then coach chat is taking a hiatus this week too

0:39.2

So we're gonna take it for him. That's gonna be pretty good. Yeah of first point of business to cover today and it did say this was an opportunity to roast Nate

0:47.0

But I think he jumped in here because it's now says opportunity to say nice things about our dear leader

0:52.0

Which are pretty much the same. Yes

0:55.4

Same thing and it's not that you know, yeah, I'm sure other people feel probably similarly to this too

0:59.9

It's a good opportunity to do it

1:01.3

But first point first things first and we don't have anything terrible to say to Nate. So sorry to disappoint you all no drama

1:06.6

But Nate did enter the dirty cans of lottery. Yeah, I think you'll do

1:13.7

We were laughing about it in the kitchen. It's not 15 minutes ago

1:18.0

I was talking to someone who were my name list because I want I value his

1:22.9

Everything about him. Yeah, he said that

1:25.7

cans are wrecked him for three years. Oh, so

1:29.4

You know, I think it's hard. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. That's what I got out of that. It's really hard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's interesting

1:35.8

I think it's one of those races where most people focus on the physical preparation the training around it, but

1:42.1

I really think the hardest part about that race

1:44.6

It really comes down to logistics and mental fortitude and those are honestly, I think it's I talked to a lot of people before I

1:51.8

Race it who had raced it before and they also the same thing like you just there's no way to mentally prepare for this and then once you've done it

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