W/kg Myths, Specialty Training, Ultra-Endurance, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 364

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Power-to-weight ratios are a helpful indicator of performance potential, but they can wreak havoc on athlete’s expectations and mental state. Join us for a deep dive into why W/kg may not perfectly represent your potential, as well as discussions on the point of Specialty Phase training and how to use it, how to pace hilly ultra-endurance events and more!

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE

(1:22) Maintaining traction on steep and loose climbs

(33:01) The best cycling kit options to own

(51:26) Why the Specialty Phase of training is important and how to use it

(1:07:14) How to know when you shouldn’t do a workout outside / tips to hit your power targets outside

(1:19:48) What w/kg do you need to be competitive

(1:58:51) Pacing Ultra-Endurance events with lots of climbing

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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
0:05.3	I'm coach Jonathan Lee and today we are here with our head coach Chad Timberman everybody
0:11.0	And we also have our our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello, and I'm just going around in a circle. Sorry. Hey Nate. How you doing good?
0:17.8	Good to have you and then we also have squid bikes IV all drain. What's up Ivy? Good. How are you? What's up? Good?
0:23.5	I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm all over the place today. I'm trying to produce this thing. I'm a producer. Maxine is out
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1:10.5	You can put in questions toward the end and we'll let you know when and we'll hopefully have some time to cover those
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1:22.2	I've been using trainer road for the vast majority of my workouts for about a year now and I've seen modest FTP gains from about
1:29.0	325 to 350 watts. I don't think that's modest
1:35.3	28 do you want 25 watts?
1:37.3	25 watts. I
1:42.3	Have it you 25 watts like like seriously that's thinking about ivy and how long you trained like what would you give to get 25 watts?
1:49.6	Right? Oh my gosh like a limb probably yeah, I think I would have the same watts per kilo outcome probably
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