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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Tactics for Bigger Riders, Extra Recovery, Racing a New Category and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 235

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.9 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 128 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

The benefits of being a larger rider, when to add extra recovery, staying competitive after an upgrade to cat 2 and more will be discussed in Episode 235 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • The do's and don'ts of fast group rides
  • Is enduro riding quality training for an XC mountain biker?
  • How to pace intervals to get the most from your workouts
  • Why being a larger rider can actually be a benefit
  • How to know when you need extra recovery time
  • Tips to stay competitive after your cat 2 upgrade
  • The coaches’ holiday wishlists

More training questions answered here: bit.ly/Training-Questions-Help-Center

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cyclist coach podcast presented by trainer road

0:05.7

I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we have a special guest with us in here today cliff bar racing's Pete Morris

0:10.1

How's it going? It going great, man

0:11.9

Also, I should introduce you as trainer roads people yeah, I'm both. Yeah, you're more in the latter now

0:17.4

And our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello. How are you Nate? Good. Good. How are you? Yeah, I'm doing

0:23.1

Okay, yeah, good to know good to know

0:26.4

This is our answer the cycling and traffic on related questions that you submitted at trainer road calm slash podcast

0:31.6

Thanks for submitting them we get a ton of them every week and go through them to build up this list of questions that we go through this week

0:37.5

So we've got a good set of them today before we get into things one thing

0:41.9

Really quick and exciting announcement for us if you go over to forum. Train road calm

0:46.6

You can see that we have a new feature that we have an early access we call it

0:51.8

Nate you want to go through and explain it? I do please do it. So we

0:56.0

It's called plan builder and

0:58.0

Here's the problem before our number one question to support and on the podcast is how do I adjust my training plan for XYZ

1:05.4

But I didn't have specifically 28 weeks and also I didn't know which blocks to choose from our training plan

1:10.7

Training plan to I pick in fact, I think if we cut those two questions out of the podcast

1:14.9

We're gonna need you guys to submit some more questions

1:18.7

Hopefully this never happens again. I mean, well, we'll probably answer some for the principle

1:26.2

So it what it does is you put in your

1:28.6

Your goal events a B and C races and then it looks at that and builds a plan for you

1:33.9

You can have more time think up to two years and it rebuilds things for you and reduz everything

1:38.7

So what we did is we can chat's brain we downloaded it now he's not here because it's just like wiped him out

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