Timing Peak Fitness, Raising FTP, Training Calendars and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 258
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 162 minutes
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Summary
Training and planning tips to reach peak fitness at your goal event, how to build your FTP and increase endurance for long efforts, techniques to manage a high training load and more in Episode 258 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- How to properly setup your training plan for peak fitness at your goal event
- The physiological differences between cycling vs running
- Tips to get started riding and training indoors on rollers
- How to use cycling as a replacement for swim training when pools are closed
- Tips to find terrain for Outside Workouts when living in a city
- How to build your FTP and increase endurance for long efforts
- When to push through the pain and train more vs when to rest
- How to manage your workout schedule if the training load is too high
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.6 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman |
| 0:09.5 | Everybody our CEO Nate Pearson |
| 0:11.9 | Hello, and canadale and trainer roads and burpiers. How you doing? |
| 0:16.1 | Train morning. I'm doing well. How are you doing Jonathan? I'm doing well |
| 0:20.8 | It's good to have everybody here for another podcast where we answer the questions that you submitted |
| 0:25.8 | You can do so at trainer road calm slash podcasts and we come through those every week and pull them in to |
| 0:31.2 | Set a questions that we hope will help make you faster access the whole goal |
| 0:35.0 | You can once again if you are listening to this on the podcast you can listen to that rate |
| 0:39.6 | It share it do whatever you want on the podcast |
| 0:41.4 | You can also join us live and there are folks joining us live on YouTube right now |
| 0:44.7 | Which is pretty awesome and it's good to have you all there and when you're on YouTube |
| 0:49.0 | You can submit the questions that you have me and maybe you can answer some of those live which could be pretty fun there |
| 0:53.8 | So exciting stuff there also |
| 0:56.3 | We're still |
| 0:57.5 | quarantine going through the whole process doing this remote |
| 1:00.1 | So if there are any sort of audio issues or anything else that anybody recognizes just let us know |
| 1:04.6 | And then we'll be able to probably adjust things because we're learning as we go with this whole process |
| 1:08.6 | So we appreciate it |
| 1:11.0 | With that I think that we have an important bit of news that's coming up this Monday right first things first |
| 1:17.1 | Mate you want to know what is it? |
| 1:19.1 | It's the ramp test live again |
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