Stretching, Yoga, Base Phase Racing, Commuting and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 197
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2019
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Join us for Episode 197 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast! We'll be covering stretching, strength, yoga and their unique effects on cycling, race selection and tactics during the Base Phase, how your commute can make you a faster cyclist, and taking your live questions.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Our race analysis videos are live
- What Nate learned racing back to back days
- What are the rules of free laps in races?
- Are "training" races just an excuse?
- Can you race during the Base Phase?
- What "opener" workouts are best
- What to do the day before a race
- Are indoor trainers bad for carbon bikes?
- Why is Yoga good for cycling?
- Why is static stretching bad?
- How your commute can make you faster
- How to time a training camp for maximum benefit
More training questions answered here: bit.ly/Training-Questions-Help-Center
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LINKS MENTIONED
- Race Analysis Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZTrkdMcji8&list=PLrKJ0zeMQrI5Bj3IUaHX0VPjNthpfFNhD
- K-Edge Garmin/GoPro Mount: https://k-edge.com/shop/computer-mounts/garmin-mounts/gopro-garmin-combo-mount/
- Specialized Rib Cage II bottle cage: https://www.specialized.com/us/en/s-works-carbon-rib-cage-ii/p/156508?color=228073-156508
- Specialized Zee Cage II bottle cage: https://www.specialized.com/us/en/s-works-carbon-zee-cage-ii--left/p/156377?color=230356-156377
- Aero Deep Dive in the Specialized Win Tunnel: https://blog.trainerroad.com/aero-deep-dive-in-the-specialized-win-tunnel-ask-a-cycling-a-coach-188/
- The Sprinter's Gap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPVkf2HsTg4
- Carpathian Peak +2: https://www.trainerroad.com/cycling/workouts/108188-carpathian-peak-2
- Clark: https://www.trainerroad.com/cycling/workouts/1264-clark
- Mary Austin -1: https://www.trainerroad.com/cycling/workouts/447926-mary-austin-1
- GP Lama YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbcwZ8hm18GK6on_S_CgmFA
- Mayo Clinic: https://www.mayoclinic.org/
- Forum on being sick all the time: https://forum.trainerroad.com/t/im-sick-all-the-time-10-courses-of-antibiotics-in-the-last-15-months-please-help/6031
- Dirty Kanza with Geoff Kabush: https://blog.trainerroad.com/race-analysis-dirty-kanza-2018-with-geoff-kabush/
- Whoop: https://www.whoop.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist |
| 0:03.7 | to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road. |
| 0:06.6 | And coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Timberman, our CEO, |
| 0:09.4 | Nate Pearson. Hello. |
| 0:10.4 | And we are back in the studio. |
| 0:12.3 | It feels kind of nice. It's a while. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah. We are going to answer more of your cycling and traffic on related |
| 0:17.0 | questions that you've submitted at trainer road.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:20.1 | Continue to do that. Please. It's awesome. |
| 0:22.8 | Getting a ton of questions. I didn't get through to I wasn't able to actually |
| 0:26.6 | sort through all the ones that we've gotten since we've taken a few weeks off |
| 0:29.2 | from the normal routine. But I'll continue to sort through those and read |
| 0:32.9 | through all of them. We appreciate you guys sending them in. |
| 0:35.9 | We have a few things to cover before we get into some of the questions, |
| 0:40.5 | takeaways from different things that have been going on. |
| 0:43.3 | First of all, Nate, you and a lot of people actually there are watching this |
| 0:47.4 | on YouTube or Facebook, which you can join us live. Usually it's every Thursday |
| 0:50.8 | at 8 a.m. Pacific this week. It's on Wednesday. |
| 0:53.7 | But you can join us on those channels live. It's tons of fun. |
| 0:56.3 | We get to answer some of the questions that you submit live. |
| 0:58.5 | You can chime in and tell us how ridiculous we look in addition to how we sound. |
| 1:02.4 | Lots of fun stuff. He's not joking. People do. People do. Yeah, they don't hold |
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