Uphill Finishes, Overtraining, Music, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 414
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:
(0:00) Welcome!
(0:31) How to train for uphill finishes
(9:31) Are you overtraining?
(24:53) Why does music make you faster, and how much faster can it make you?
(41:49) Should you take a week off after big races?
(48:07) Tips on fitting unstructured riding into your training plan
(56:07) Should you reduce caffeine intake before races?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Asuka Cycling Coach Podcast, |
| 0:01.7 | presented by Train and Road today. |
| 0:02.9 | We're going to talk about uphill finishes. |
| 0:04.4 | We're going to talk about overtraining. |
| 0:05.6 | We're going to talk about caffeine. |
| 0:06.9 | We're also going to go into a bit of a deep dive on music. |
| 0:09.2 | I think we all kind of know music makes us faster, |
| 0:11.1 | but we're actually going to get into the science behind why, |
| 0:13.9 | or at least as much as it seems like we know |
| 0:15.8 | a scientific research about why it makes us faster. |
| 0:18.2 | It's going to be a good one. |
| 0:19.3 | We have phantom bikes and train roads. |
| 0:20.7 | I've y'all dream with us. |
| 0:22.1 | First question from Josh. |
| 0:24.1 | We have coach Jonathan Lee with us. |
| 0:26.2 | Oh yeah, yeah, sure. |
| 0:28.3 | They know that or I'm not important enough and it's fine. |
| 0:31.1 | Let's go into Josh's question. |
| 0:32.5 | Ivy, we'll have you lead off with this one. |
| 0:34.7 | Josh says great to see some of the podcast regulars |
| 0:37.0 | Crush Sea Otter this weekend. |
| 0:38.6 | Congrats to Alex fifth, I think, a fantastic result. |
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