Treating Hyponatremia, Training with Low TSS, EPO and more – Ask a Cycling Coach 271
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
How to quickly recognize and treat hyponatremia, how to get faster with a low TSS training plan, how EPO and your hematocrit affect your performance and more in Episode 271 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
- How to recognize and treat hyponatremia
- Tips to get the most benefit from caffeine for training and racing
- How EPO and your hematocrit affect your performance
- How to get faster with a low TSS training plan
- Tips to pick the best plan for draft-legal triathlons
- Why training VO2 Max is helpful even if you don’t race
- Setup tips for to train with a single-speed on an indoor trainer
- Why you should be using tire inserts for XC MTB
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast is dedicated in making you a faster cyclist to ask a cycling coach |
| 0:04.7 | podcast presented by trainer road. I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we have with us trainer |
| 0:09.3 | road and canondales amber pierce. What's up Amber? Hey everybody. |
| 0:13.8 | Our head coach Chad Zimmerman. Everyone and the whole gang is back together again. Nate |
| 0:18.6 | is back from vacation our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello. Okay. So we need to talk about some |
| 0:24.3 | coup d'unque that we're going to jump ahead and dock that three of you did and you're |
| 0:29.2 | going to confuse our listeners because you guys were not accurate. Okay. I kind of |
| 0:35.3 | I got the rebuttals and I think I remember the questions because I listened to it. But |
| 0:38.3 | number one suspension set up. John said that was the worst suspension I've ever seen |
| 0:43.6 | which might have been true. But I talked to Keegan about it and Keegan goes I hate |
| 0:48.7 | John's suspension. John's is like so bad because he had to set up like a moto and he's |
| 0:54.3 | like don't worry about it. And let me let me step back a little bit. I did it tell |
| 0:59.7 | you ride 100. That was I was the 50 but the race is called tell you right 100. It was |
| 1:05.9 | in Colorado. Two parts of it. One is I did fly there. I had the N95 mask and then in |
| 1:11.7 | Colorado they did way better than Nevada's and tell you right for social distancing. |
| 1:16.3 | Outside everyone had mass off. We had all of our meals outside or in the condo which was |
| 1:20.1 | awesome. I still don't know if I should have done that or should not have done that separate |
| 1:24.5 | issue. Okay. So then I had a new epic come. I had one ride on it and I used it for tell |
| 1:29.7 | you right. First I think people were saying why should you not use a new bike for a big |
| 1:35.6 | race? One it's not a big race right? It wasn't. I mean it how many how many mountain bike |
| 1:44.9 | races have you done this year? No but in terms of importance right we've talked about |
| 1:48.7 | this A B and C races right and you want to test things in your your non important races |
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