Training talk with cycling coach James Spragg | EP#251

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Training talk with cycling coach James Spragg | EP#251 James Spragg is a former professional cyclist who now uses his applied and scientific knowledge in his cycling coaching practice. James has coached cyclists from national to Olympic level to over 20 National, European and World Championship medals. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -James coaching philosophy -Training structure, from macro (periodisation) to micro -When and why to select specific types of training for a given athlete -Profiling an athlete and figuring out their limiters and needs based on the event demands -Understanding and applying science in one's coaching practice -"Rapid-fire" miscellaneous training topics SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts251/ SCIENTIFIC TRIATHLON AND THAT TRIATHLON SHOW WEBPAGE: www.scientifictriathlon.com/podcast SPONSORS: Precision Hydration - One-size doesn't fit all when it comes to hydration. Take Precision Hydration's FREE sweat test and learn how you should hydrate. Use the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW15 to get 15% off your order OR use the code THATTRIATHLONSHOW and get your first box for free. ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Visit roka.com/tts for 20% off your order. LINKS AND RESOURCES: Spragg Cycle Coaching - James' website James' Twitter and Instagram Cycling episodes on That Triathlon Show RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

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0:00.0	The Traathlon Show, 251.
0:17.9	Hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of that triathlon show, the podcast
0:23.9	presented by scientific triathlon.com. I'm our host Michael and on today's episode, I interview
0:29.7	James Pragg. James is a cycling coach with really great knowledge in both the scientific side
0:36.8	and the applied side of cycling and coaching.
0:40.2	He's himself a former professional cyclist and he has coached cyclists from from amateurs
0:46.2	up to Olympic level and he has taken cyclists to over 20 medals at national European
0:52.3	and world championship levels.
0:55.5	So we'll have a varied training talk today where we're talking about James
0:58.9	coaching philosophy, training structure, periodization, microstructures, when and why to
1:04.3	select different types of training and profiling an athlete and so on, much, much more.
1:09.4	But you'll hear about that when we get into the
1:12.2	interview which will do right after thanking our sponsors first you have precision hydration that you can
1:17.4	find on precision hydration dot com they make electrolyte supplements that you can match to your
1:23.0	individual sodium losses so how much sodium you lose in your sweat depends on your
1:28.4	sweat rate and your sweat sodium concentration. And the best way to figure out roughly where
1:34.8	you stand in the sweat sodium loss department is to take precision hydration's free online
1:40.7	sweat test on their website. And that consists of 10 questions in a quiz format,
1:46.3	qualitative answers, multi-choice answers. So it's pretty easy. It takes a few minutes.
1:52.2	And that will give you a good ballpark estimate that has been validated with actual medical
1:56.5	grade sweat testing equipment. So definitely a great starting point for you to then go and
2:02.3	select what sort of electlight supplement strength you should use in training and racing.
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