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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Training Without a Power Meter, Low Heart Rate, Effective Sweet Spot Training and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 284

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.94.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

How to get faster without a power meter, what a low heart rate actually means, a practical guide to Sweet Spot training and more in Episode 284 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!

 

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE

 

  • What Nate learned at Lee McCormick’s clinic in Moab, UT
  • How to make fire road descending less sketchy
  • How to climb steep terrain on a mountain bike
    • How to recover from a concussion
  • Getting faster without a power meter
  • How much Sweetspot training is too much?
  • How we made TrainerRoad’s Sweetspot Base plans
  • What does low heart rate mean?

 

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STUDIES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist the ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road

0:05.6

I'm coach Jonathan Lee. We have the crew back together. It's exciting to have everybody

0:09.9

We have canadael and trainer roads amber Pierce everybody

0:14.0

We have our head coach Chad Zimmerman everyone and welcome back Chad good to have you and our CEO Nate Pearson

0:21.2

He's got a beardish. I've never seen one on you

0:24.2

It's as close as I get this is I like it. This is my version of a beard

0:28.5

It should go longer someone we need to put a picture of this in the forum post. What's this episode? Yes, number

0:34.8

This one is going to be episode 284

0:37.4

It's a 25 oh man. I've been recording a lot of podcasts this episode or this week

0:42.1

So forgive me if that numbers incorrect it might be 285

0:45.1

Sorry, I haven't been here for a while. I've been actually counting boats for Nevada

0:50.2

To take me it was you

0:52.8

Well, I have a concussion. I was like one two and a half and I'm like

0:58.1

Excuse me leap that out. How did I get to an app? I'm really glad we're not live

1:02.4

That's the first time I've sworn on air. That's like a little bit of my mental state right now

1:07.9

That's the first time ever I'm like 100 hours. Wow. Okay

1:13.4

Okay, luckily thanks for getting the votes counted date for solving all that for we're not done yet

1:18.6

I'm so glad we're not live. This is like

1:21.1

Oh, yeah, okay

1:23.1

So we're gonna have this

1:25.5

We do if you're listening to this you can obviously see Chad's beard and also see the lack of

1:30.8

Che of Nate's black eye it seems like it's almost all the way gone now

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