Training After Illness, Early Season Racing, Training Camps and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 347
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
Amber Pierce, Alex Wild, Ivy Audrain, and Coach Jonathan go deep on how to come back to training after illness, when you should start adding races to your calendar, how to use early season training camps to boost your fitness and much more. Join us for Episode 347 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- Is FTP testing accurate?
- How to pick early season races, when to do them, and how to get the most from them
- Alex’s peaking strategy for the year
- How to use training camps to boost your fitness
- How to return from training after illness
- Aerobic training for anaerobic athletes
- Saddle selection and why it matters
- How to manage carb intake on self-supported rides
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.6 | This is episode 347 kind of wild. I think we've done 347 of these pretty great |
| 0:10.6 | Today we have with us a great a great group of hosts. We have trainer Ronan cannon Dale's amber peers |
| 0:16.7 | Good morning |
| 0:18.2 | We have hand up plus the black bibs racing's IV Audraine and John good job. I nailed it |
| 0:24.2 | I'm done for the day. I'm out retiring from podcasting |
| 0:27.4 | And we have |
| 0:29.7 | Specialized and ice frictions Alex wild. What's up Alex? I know |
| 0:33.6 | Good to have you you've been doing some big miles big volume been trying |
| 0:38.5 | It's like you've been selected for a lifetime grand pre or something. So |
| 0:45.1 | Today we're going to get into talking about training after illness a lot of folks are being or training coming back after illness |
| 0:51.4 | Disclaimer before we get into any of that if you are dealing with COVID talk to a doctor on coming back |
| 0:57.8 | This is not medical advice that needs to be understood |
| 1:01.0 | We're going to talk about the training process coming back from that |
| 1:03.5 | We're not going to talk about how to treat your illness |
| 1:06.4 | Just want to make sure that's clear |
| 1:08.6 | None of us really feel like doctors and even if we did feel like doctors. We aren't doctors |
| 1:13.0 | So we're also talking about early season racing. We're going to talk about training camps and how to use those to be able to |
| 1:18.0 | uh, there we say you know super boost your training and your fitness along the different time of the year |
| 1:24.6 | It's going to be a good one. We're also going to do some rapid fire stuff |
| 1:27.2 | But first I want to ask a favor from all of us podcast listeners here |
| 1:31.7 | We want your feedback on how to improve the podcast. We do this every year |
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