Training Without Events, Outside Workouts, Hormonal Birth Control and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 251
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2020
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
What to do if your events are canceled, tips to nail your outside workouts, the effect of hormonal birth control on training and performance plus more in Episode 251 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- What to do if your events are canceled
- Techniques to continue training your swim if your local pool is closed
- Why workouts are usually structured for one energy system at a time
- The effect of training on your blood plasma levels
- How to hold steady power over rolling terrain
- Choosing to race the "novice" category before cat 4
- How hormonal birth control can effect your training and performance
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road |
| 0:05.7 | I'm coach Jonathan Lee and this is clearly a very different podcast than normal |
| 0:10.1 | So if you're looking at it right now |
| 0:11.8 | You'll probably see as Brady bunched around on the screen on YouTube |
| 0:14.6 | But if you're listening to this we also may sound a bit different because we're not in our studio |
| 0:19.0 | We are actually all from home due to the viral outbreak, but we still want to get you the podcast here |
| 0:24.8 | So we have our head coach Chad Timberman. How you doing everybody? I'm doing well. Thanks |
| 0:30.3 | We have our CEO Nate Pearson hello and |
| 0:33.7 | Because of the power of the internet and all of us being remote we also have Amber Pierce. What's up Amber? Hey guys? |
| 0:39.8 | This is a lemonade out of lemons |
| 0:42.4 | Right. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good thing that comes from it |
| 0:46.7 | So we are going to answer more of the cycling and traffic on related questions that you submit you do so every week at trainer road.com |
| 0:52.8 | Slash podcast keep doing that. It's awesome and we sincerely appreciate it. It's really cool and |
| 0:58.1 | And a couple things you can also join us on YouTube. It's not live right now |
| 1:02.2 | We may find a way to make this live while we're remote |
| 1:04.9 | We may not but regardless you can watch this on YouTube and if you are watching it on YouTube |
| 1:09.3 | You should absolutely go down there and give us a thumbs up on the video right now if you're watching because that will help us a bunch |
| 1:14.2 | You can subscribe to our YouTube channels and you don't miss the videos because we have a video every single day |
| 1:18.6 | It's coming out whether it's race analysis or some sort of tips tons of great content on there |
| 1:23.3 | So you should do that if you're not doing it and also if you're listening on a podcast app |
| 1:27.6 | You can subscribe on the podcast app so then that way you don't miss episodes because you know a lot of you |
| 1:31.7 | Just kind of jump in and find it if you subscribe it makes it a whole lot easier |
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