Worm Blood Doping, Recovery Week Mistakes, Hardest Zones – Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast 452
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
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🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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(00:15) Are pro cyclists doping using worm blood?!
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(15:14) Leg soreness after VO2max workouts
(21:47) Avoid these mistakes during recovery weeks
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(37:10) What happens when you increase training volume after a peak?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ask A Cycling Coach, |
| 0:01.5 | Coach Piedge, |
| 0:02.4 | by trainer road. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Coach Jonathan Lee. |
| 0:03.8 | We have Santa Cruz's hit squads, Keegan Swenson, |
| 0:05.9 | and trainer road CEO Nate Pearson with us. |
| 0:08.4 | Stoke to get into today's questions |
| 0:10.0 | that you've submitted at trainer road. |
| 0:11.2 | com slash podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Let's just jump into Derek's question. |
| 0:14.8 | First things first. |
| 0:15.7 | He says, all right guys, and he submitted this |
| 0:18.6 | at trainer.com slash podcast. |
| 0:20.3 | All right guys, worm blood, seriously, |
| 0:22.1 | what's the science behind this? |
| 0:23.7 | Did you guys see the headlines, I assume, on this, the story that came out? |
| 0:27.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.7 | I don't understand it, like, do you eat worms? |
| 0:30.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.9 | Yeah, I think you, no, you inject worm blood into your blood and then as a result, |
| 0:37.0 | yeah. And then as a result, you have 40% more oxygen carrying capacity according to it. It's wild. |
| 0:45.0 | How much blood do you inject? Like that is not stated. |
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