Testosterone, Explosivity, Leadout Trains and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 318
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 133 minutes
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Summary
How are testosterone levels, recovery and adaptation affected by hair-loss drugs, how do you train explosivity, and how do you build an ideal leadout train? We’ll cover this and more in Episode 318 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- How to pace yourself in a fast race
- Do hair loss treatments make you a slower cyclist?
- Surging vs. steady power: which is best?
- Who is your spirit Disney character and why?
- HR Monitors and Adaptive Training
- The hosts analysis of the Olympic Cycling events
- How to build an ideal leadout train
- Should cyclists focus on explosive or slow and stable strength movements?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast. It's dedicated to making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.5 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with trainer road and Kennondale's Amber Pierce |
| 0:09.1 | Hello everybody our head coach Chad Timmerman |
| 0:12.4 | Everyone and our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello Chad never sounds enthused |
| 0:19.1 | I'm here by force |
| 0:24.7 | It's it Chad just needs something once Chad hits the stride. It's all on |
| 0:28.3 | This is where you can submit the this is where you get answers when you're older it takes longer to warm up |
| 0:33.0 | Nate. That's gonna say it's two drinks as usually Chad stride |
| 0:39.5 | We never know it's in the coffee cup. It's early but |
| 0:44.7 | This is where you can submit questions at trainer road calm slash podcast and get them answered every week |
| 0:49.4 | We get a ton of questions and we're super grateful for all of you sending them in even your silly rapid fire ones |
| 0:54.9 | Keep sending those ones in we're gonna talk about spirit Disney characters today in the rapid fire section |
| 1:00.1 | So I'm sure we're definitely not bearing the lead. That's the lead of the whole podcast. So |
| 1:04.5 | But Amber, this is your last podcast with us for a while, right? |
| 1:08.4 | Yeah, that's right. I'm going on tomorrow's my last day at work and then I'm going on maternity leave |
| 1:14.4 | It's happening |
| 1:15.9 | Amber's gonna I know so when is your day Amber? Yeah, August 22nd |
| 1:20.7 | So it's coming up and for some reason I just thought oh well |
| 1:24.4 | I'll just keep working until either I go into labor or the due date comes whichever comes first |
| 1:30.2 | But interestingly and amazingly the third trimester is a little bit more challenging |
| 1:34.6 | That might be so that was a that was naive on my part |
| 1:39.1 | But it's it's been awesome because even kind of being able to go with the flow and play it by air a little bit and |
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