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Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Why FTP Isn’t Everything, Finding a Base Plan, Plyometrics and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 273

Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

TrainerRoad

Sports

4.94.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Why FTP isn’t always the best measure of your fitness, how to find the right type of base plan for you, why plyometrics may help cyclists get faster and more in Episode 273 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Efficiently increase your aerobic capacity 
  • Why FTP isn’t always the best measure of fitness
  • Tips to choose if Sweet Spot Base or Traditional Base is best for you
  • How to use a B-Race to prep for your A-Race
  • How to add more volume to train for ultra-endurance events
  • Plyometrics for mountain bikers and cyclists
  • The best preparation for Single Track 6
  • How to train for and execute very long rides

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast is dedicated to making you a faster cyclist, the Asuka cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road. Man, this is episode 273.

0:09.0

It's pretty cool. These things are racking up, huh? I'm coach Jonathan Lee and we have below me at least on the zoom video here. We have trainer road and canadels and repairs.

0:19.0

Everybody.

0:20.0

Our head coach Chad Zimmerman. Everyone and our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello, we should have like BA. No, after a after Amber and before Amber is like a time period.

0:32.0

Then people can easily be like, I don't want to listen to that.

0:36.0

Yeah, I got really on up to 20 or something. I'm going to leak something here, but it's a project we're working on.

0:42.0

It's a big podcast website project that eventually we want to have it all really organized and really searchable, really accessible, really cool stuff, because there's so much information on this, but it's tough to find.

0:52.0

And that's how we should have. I've been thinking about how we organize it and that's how we should have it like the timeline that I saw in my history books, and I was a kid and we'll have before Amber.

1:01.0

That would be the differentiation.

1:04.0

That's a good idea actually is have like a like a list of all the guests and you can click on them and see which guest is on which episode, because there's some really good sometimes like if you're crit race, you probably listen to every single one pizza ever done.

1:16.0

For sure, right and click bar.

1:18.0

And he yeah, exactly and they're not on as often, but that'd be really cool.

1:22.0

I want to talk about something. It's been killing me. I don't know what's been killing you, John, but Chad and Pete wrote in the document and then in Slack, they said they have a big team amount announcement for Cape Epic.

1:33.0

And then not tell us what it is. And honestly, John and I thought you guys were backing out or at least.

1:40.0

Oh, you give me your face. I can't. Well, I can't I tell I've been doing much group workouts and telling everybody I can't listen or concentrate. My whole life is upended. What is it Chad?

1:51.0

Well, the suspense is worth it because this is a big deal. It's really not. It's definitely a big deal to Pete and to me, but it's.

2:00.0

I don't know more than anything. I just wanted to I just wanted to toy with you guys. Initially, when we signed up, we had to submit a team name.

2:07.0

And we couldn't think of anything worthy on the spot. So I think we did something generic like trainer road team two or team three, depending on which order we signed up.

2:16.0

And it just the other day inspiration dawned. And there was a point meant.

2:22.0

I'm back probably 150 200 episodes. Maybe Jonathan referred to my vocal delivery on the podcast as thunder and honey. And I don't know if that's because someone else said it.

2:32.0

Or because that's what he thought, but it got said enough times that it stuck with me. And Pete's alter ego is basically the God of thunder, right.

2:40.0

So you're going here. Yeah, super sweet guy. Right. So you're honey. You're under an all bonus. That's the bonus, right.

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