STOP CRAMPING | Sweat Testing Tips + More | Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 530
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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(00:00) Welcome!
(00:35) Listener Question: Understanding Sweat Test Results
(06:23) Listener Question: ERG Mode vs. Resistance Mode
(11:55) Listener Question: Training with a Broken Collarbone
(17:49) Trainer Road Throwdown Series Announcement
(19:26) Listener Question: Tips for Zwift Racing
(31:30) Conclusion and Final Thoughts
Coach Jonathan Lee addresses a variety of listener questions covering the interpretation and application of sweat test results, the pros and cons of using ERG mode in indoor training, and how to optimize performance and drafting tactics during Zwift races. Additional insight is provided on the best ways to recover from a collarbone injury while minimizing fitness loss.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by Trainor Road. I'm Coach Jonathan |
| 0:03.6 | Lee. It's just me and all of you listening and watching today. It's going to be a solo podcast. |
| 0:08.2 | Everyone here at Train at Road is super focused, working hard on some really cool features, |
| 0:12.5 | and we didn't want to miss a week for the podcast, though, so I'm here. I'm stoked to be with all of you. |
| 0:16.6 | You can drop your questions that you want answered down into the YouTube comments on this video. |
| 0:21.5 | If you're listening on Spotify or on iTunes or anything else, you can rate that podcast and share it. |
| 0:25.8 | We'd appreciate it. |
| 0:26.9 | This is where we answer the questions that you've submitted, and we have a handful of them to go through today. |
| 0:31.4 | It's going to be a shorter episode than normal. |
| 0:33.1 | But let's just jump straight into it. First from Brandon, he says, hey, trainer road crew, I've been using |
| 0:38.2 | trainer road for about two years and absolutely love training. I weigh 100 pounds or 45.3 kilograms |
| 0:43.0 | with an FTP of 250. I love learning all about nutrition and training. I recently had the privilege to |
| 0:49.4 | do a sweat test at the University of Arkansas. The test was completed in a chamber set to 80 degrees Fahrenheit |
| 0:54.8 | or 26.7 degrees Celsius at 50% humidity, written at 180 watts for an hour. I got my results back, |
| 1:01.9 | and to be honest, didn't know really what they meant or how to implement them into my nutrition. |
| 1:06.7 | I wanted to share this with you in hopes of learning about what the results mean and how to |
| 1:10.3 | incorporate them into my training and racing. Here are my results. A sweat rate of 0.8 liters per hour. |
| 1:16.4 | Sodium concentration of 930 milligrams of sodium per liter. A sodium rate of 740 milligrams per hour. |
| 1:25.2 | Thank you so much for making me faster every day. Yeah, our pleasure, |
| 1:28.1 | Brandon. I'll run through this. So sweat tests can be carried out in a chamber like this, |
| 1:31.8 | which is super cool, or precision fuel and hydration actually has the equipment to do these passively, |
| 1:37.7 | where you don't actually need to be on the bike. And they have testing centers in various |
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