Standing Climbing, Sub-8 Leadville, Multiple Peaks & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 142
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2018
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Standing vs. seated climbing, what it takes to go sub-8 at Leadville, peaking more than once & more in this episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• What it's like to ride at professional team camps
• Tactics or power to weight – which matters most?
• How pro cyclists eat
• How to beat a strong racer in a crit
• How to train for Leadville
• Why TT racers should race leadville
• What it takes to go under 8 hours at Leadville
• How to build useful sprint power
• Is chloride bad for cyclists?
• What to look for in an electrolyte drink
• How to train between goal events
• Differentiating between physical and psychological fatigue
• How to use RPE to train
• Ventilatory thresholds explained
• Should you not stand on the trainer?
• Which is faster: seated or standing pedaling?
• How to reduce anterior pelvic tilt
• Why cyclists need to loosen their hips
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.5 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timmerman everybody our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:10.1 | Hello, and we are going to answer more of your cycling and traffic on related questions today |
| 0:14.0 | You can submit them at trainer road calm slash podcast and we'll go through those questions |
| 0:19.0 | We read every single one of them. It's a lot of them and then we put together a list of questions that we feel we can cover |
| 0:25.0 | That could make for informative and entertaining entertaining content for all of you and |
| 0:29.0 | We also share a bit from our personal experiences that we are having as we train and race and that sort of a thing and |
| 0:36.0 | You're always you're supposed to learn something too. So if you don't want to hear about us look |
| 0:40.4 | Just listen to another podcast |
| 0:42.4 | But we had a big weekend actionable. We had a really big weekend huge weekend |
| 0:46.4 | So we we went to it was team camp weekends over in northern California this time of year |
| 0:51.0 | It's where a lot of teams are pro cycling teams are doing team camp and we went over Nate and I went over to the Mark Pro camp |
| 0:57.8 | And the cliff bar camps and we recorded some podcast content. It'll be upcoming soon |
| 1:02.2 | We're gonna talk a little bit about that where we're probably like Nate can cut me off |
| 1:06.0 | We're all cut and ate off when we we we shared too much |
| 1:09.0 | But it was a we we learned a bunch of things like so much |
| 1:12.4 | Do you already want to start? They're really really really fast. Yes |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah, no doubt. Let's start pre because I think there's another takeaway with the waxing chains |
| 1:22.4 | Yeah, good point. So we bought the stuff we talked about it |
| 1:24.8 | We talked about waxing chains and for those who don't know you actually dip your chain in wax and what it's supposed to do is |
| 1:31.6 | It increases efficiency. So reduce this friction |
| 1:35.0 | Lose less watts in your drivetrain you might lose like like seven watts would be like a dirty one to a wax chain |
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