Training & Illness, Sunscreen & Performance, Why You’re Getting Dropped, and More - Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 490
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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00:00 Welcome!
00:42 Hannah's Recent Illness and Racing Challenges
02:22 Managing Illness While Training and Racing
05:45 The Importance of Rest and Recovery
23:48 Listener Question: Sunscreen and Performance
41:49 Analyzing the Impact of Sunscreen on Sweating
43:30 Personal Experiences with Sunscreen
50:23 The Importance of Reapplying Sunscreen
56:00 Listener Question: Why You’re Getting Dropped at 4.5w/kg
01:14:34 Tips for Hard Gainers and Efficiency in Racing
In this episode of the TrainerRoad Podcast, join Coach Jonathan Lee, Hannah Otto, and CEO Nate Pearson as they delve into dealing with illness while training and its effects on performance. They share Hannah's recent racing experiences while sick, explore the role of sunscreen on sweat and performance, discuss why you might be getting dropped even with a high power to weight ratio, drafting techniques, and highlight the importance of racing to your strengths. The hosts also cover the challenges for smaller riders, maintaining energy balance, and strategies to increase muscle mass and strength.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a special episode of the Ask of Cycling Coach podcast presented by trainer road. I'm |
| 0:03.6 | Coach Jonathan Lee out of breath because I've been trying to do push-ups to stay warm over here. |
| 0:08.0 | We have Hannah Otto with us. Hannah, how's it going? |
| 0:11.0 | Good, thanks for having me. Yeah, stoked. We have our CEO Nate Pearson with us too and we're going to talk all about... |
| 0:16.7 | Yeah, you can go like eight hours in the bike, but like eight push-ups in your gassed. Are you implying my lack of upper body strength as president? |
| 0:30.0 | No, it's kind of like when cyclists walk upstairs, you know, fast. |
| 0:32.8 | Like my legs are like, how does that happen? |
| 0:34.8 | It's so true. Isn't that funny? |
| 0:36.9 | I like, yeah, he'd go upstairs and you're out of breath, but then he can do so much more. |
| 0:40.6 | Yeah, that's how it goes. |
| 0:41.8 | Hannah, you've been sick lately. I think I saw that |
| 0:45.2 | correctly from Instagram. Yet you still, your job, you know, you still got to do your job. So you've |
| 0:52.1 | been racing through the whole thing. I want to talk about Leadville, |
| 0:54.7 | SPT. I also want to talk about how you've managed illness with all this. We're |
| 0:59.5 | also going to get into an interesting question on sunscreen. We're going to talk about another |
| 1:03.8 | question that somebody submitted that goes into how to raise your threshold like |
| 1:08.0 | if you're the sort of athlete that has a really good power to weight ratio but |
| 1:11.2 | you're just getting dropped by people and |
| 1:13.8 | what you need to do that's gonna be a great one too. |
| 1:16.0 | Some great questions we're gonna get to all them but first Hannah |
| 1:19.4 | where do you want to start with the races or do you want to start with them |
| 1:22.4 | managing the illness stuff because it's kind of an |
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