Weight vs. Power, Failed Workouts, Junk Miles and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 291
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 31 December 2020
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
Weight goals can seem like they are at odds with power goals, but there is a healthy way to achieve both. We’ll cover this as well as whether it is better to struggle through a workout or bail early, what is the definition of “junk miles” and if they have a place in training, and much more. Tune in now to Episode 291 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• Introduction 0:00
• New Year’s Resolutions for the hosts 4:23
• What is an ideal power curve like? 16:46
• How to use power data for mountain bikers 31:48
• Is it better to struggle or fail a workout? 49:02
• Heart rate vs. RPE-based training 1:07:20
• Why some plans don’t have ramp tests at the end of the plan 1:10:34
• Best cycling-related Christmas gifts 1:11:47
• How to pace the climbs at Leadville 1:15:23
• How to build a race calendar 1:19:24
• Skiing for cross-training 1:20:46
• What are junk miles? 1:22:50
• Are bananas and dates good fuel for cycling? 1:30:22
• Weight goals vs. performance goals 1:45:00
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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 and coach Jonathan |
| 0:07.0 | Lee with a different crew for you here this week. We have our oh actually I have a special delivery coming to the office right now |
| 0:13.3 | Forgive me behind the scenes podcast stuff. We have with us. We have our community manager here at trainer trainer road |
| 0:20.0 | Ive y'all drain. How you doing Ivy? Hey, I'm super good. How are you? |
| 0:24.1 | Great good to have you we have orange seal and specialized |
| 0:27.9 | Racings Alex wild everybody and we also have Cliff bar racing and trainer roads Pete Morris |
| 0:34.8 | How's it going guys? |
| 0:36.3 | Different crew. It's like the it's like the U23 crew. I know that none of us are U23 here |
| 0:41.0 | But it's like that because you don't have the normal crew here. We have young fresh faces coming in |
| 0:46.7 | The junior squad exactly |
| 0:49.2 | It's good to have us all here |
| 0:51.6 | We are going to go over a handful of things today |
| 0:54.3 | Uh, namely we're gonna discuss weight goals power goals. They seem like they're odds a lot of the time |
| 0:59.6 | But maybe they aren't and we're gonna try to talk about the best way to accomplish both at the same time |
| 1:04.4 | We'll talk about failing workouts versus struggling through workouts and what each of us do individually and it was cool because in the planning meeting |
| 1:10.7 | We all had different responses about how we handle that's not of the interesting and we'll also talk about junk miles |
| 1:16.0 | How we define that which once again all of us define it differently? |
| 1:19.4 | But what junk miles are for each of us and if and if they have a place in our training and how if they do indeed have a place in our training |
| 1:27.6 | So we're gonna cover all that plus plenty of other details |
| 1:30.3 | But first things first if you're listening to this on YouTube right now or watching it |
| 1:33.9 | I should say thank you so much and you can give us a thumbs up |
| 1:37.1 | If you give us a thumbs up on YouTube that means that more cyclists are gonna see it |
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