Strength Training, Heart Rate and Testing, Elevation & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 208
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2019
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Summary
Team Clif Bar Racing’s Pete Morris joins us again as we go over Coach Chad’s strength training plan, how to gain weight and get faster, what your heart rate data means during a ramp test, and much more!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• How to increase your FTP with TrainerRoad
• Why you experience numbness when riding hard
• Barely holding on to a fast group, or leading a slower group: What’s best?
• How to use an olympic tri to prep for a Half-Ironman
• How to taper before a Half-Ironman
• Why course replica workouts aren’t good training
• How to make the most of course reconnaissance
• Tips to avoid a tight lower back
• How elevation affects pacing
• How to use “negative split” pacing
• How to pick the right gearing for a climb
• How to gain weight and get faster
• Coach Chad’s Strength Training Recommendations
• Should you reach max heart rate during a ramp test?
• How to make a hot and humid room cool and dry
• Training in the heat vs. cold
• Tech that measures recovery
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.8 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Shad Timmerman. Hi everybody our CEO not our CEO. What am I doing here? Not today |
| 0:12.0 | You've changed it |
| 0:13.4 | Pete Morris. Oh our product manager would also team Cliff Bar Racing's Pete Morris. How's it going guys? |
| 0:18.0 | Going great man. Thanks for coming. I always like having you all. It's really fun for me too. I think the people like it too |
| 0:23.4 | Uh, we've all you can join us live on YouTube and on Facebook and we've already got some questions coming in one of them |
| 0:27.9 | I saw is actually very appropriate for you. So after this podcast the questions at least that we have prepared |
| 0:33.1 | We will go through and answer a handful of those questions depending on the time we have |
| 0:37.2 | So you can join us it's usually Thursday at 8 a.m. Pacific like it is in this case and you can join us on there every week |
| 0:42.4 | So it's exciting stuff |
| 0:44.6 | Okay, so before we get into the questions that we have we have a few words more like clarifications on previous episodes |
| 0:52.2 | So the first one's from Chris he says hey guys great podcast great product great team. Awesome. Thanks man |
| 0:57.9 | Thanks Chris. I just did my second TT and got a power result. I'm super happy with it was a 20k Merx or retro style TT |
| 1:05.9 | Chad you want to explain what a Merx TT is. Yeah, it's just a regular bike. So no TT bars no TT helmets no deep section wheels |
| 1:12.7 | So it's basically like you'd race a road race |
| 1:15.7 | In some cases they certain race organizers will really like although good real legit with this yeah |
| 1:21.4 | Yeah, yeah, they'll be like nothing deeper than like you know a box section wheel down tube shifters |
| 1:26.2 | Yeah |
| 1:32.2 | Okay, so he says it took me just a bit under 33 minutes |
| 1:35.3 | I was thinking that it was really like doing an FTP test |
| 1:38.3 | I know that the in the eight minute tests we take 90% of the average power and for the 20 minute test |
| 1:43.7 | We take 95% of the average power for those durations |
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