The Next Big Thing in Cycling Nutrition? (Cluster Dextrin / Highly Branched Cyclic Dextrin) – Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 457
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🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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// TOPICS COVERED
(0:00) Welcome!
(00:38) What are the next innovations in pro cycling?
(07:52) Is Highly Branched Cyclic Dextrin (cluster dextrin) the next big thing in cycling nutrition?
(18:55) A periodization mistake that hurts your yearly progress
(25:56) Running Cross-training tips. Is concrete more damaging than asphalt or trail?
(32:13) Why aren’t more pro road cyclists doing other disciplines like MVDP, WVA, Pidcock, and Pieterse?
(38:37) How the order of your workouts affects your fitness
(50:04) A new study that shows pairing training with studying might actually help you retain information
// RESOURCES MENTIONED
- Image showing the different molecular structures we discussed: https://www.torqfitness.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/molecules.png
- Float Set workout: https://www.trainerroad.com/app/cycling/workouts/45262-megantic-1
- Tibial acceleration and shock attenuation while running over different surfaces in a trail environment, Garcia, 2021.: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S144024402100058X
- MVDP in Sand (credit to FloBikes): https://youtu.be/Ji1CE6_9Dhc?feature=shared&t=4316
- Puck Pieterse (credit to UCI Mountain Bike World Series): https://youtu.be/RpMETGtVBvE?feature=shared&t=35
- Recess workout: https://www.trainerroad.com/app/cycling/workouts/312044-recess-5
- Moderate-to-vigorous intensity cycling exercise immediately after visual learning enhances delayed recognition memory performance, Venezia, 2023.: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S146902922300122X?fr=RR-2&ref=pdf_download&rr=84368897b84a986c
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist, |
| 0:03.0 | the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road. |
| 0:05.1 | Today we are going to answer the questions that you submitted |
| 0:07.3 | and one of the questions actually deals with, |
| 0:10.0 | maybe we're doing this whole thing wrong with glucose and fructose. |
| 0:13.0 | It'll be interesting to look into. |
| 0:14.8 | So it would be a good one. |
| 0:16.8 | You can submit those questions at trainer road.com slash podcast |
| 0:19.2 | or on Spotify. |
| 0:20.0 | You can just go to this episode right now that you're listening to and Spotify allows you to enter your podcast question right there and then we can go through and get your podcast questions directly from Spotify. |
| 0:29.0 | One Stop Shop, it's amazing. If you haven't, start listening to it on Spotify. |
| 0:33.1 | It's fantastic or watch it on YouTube |
| 0:34.9 | because you can watch video the whole time |
| 0:36.5 | while you're there. |
| 0:37.5 | It's really great. |
| 0:38.5 | Let's get into the first one. |
| 0:39.5 | This is submitted by Paul. |
| 0:40.4 | He says, with Red Bull recently announcing a majority stake in |
| 0:43.4 | Borah Hansgrove, that's the cycling team that now Primos Roglich rides for, |
| 0:47.3 | he just got hired for this year. |
| 0:49.1 | What changes do you think they will or should do to optimize performance like they've done in Formula One on their way to being the most dominant team. |
| 0:56.2 | It's like a yeah dream budget you know I was just gonna say like it's all about budget money but also the aerodynamics from F1 I wonder if there'll be more like you know |
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