Yearly Planning, Power vs. Heart Rate, Indoor Training Gear & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 134
Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad
TrainerRoad
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
A complete guide to planning your training for the year, power vs. heart rate and indoor training tips and gear we're loving right now. All of this and more in Episode 134 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
• (00:30)TrainerRoad CX Nationals Athlete Panel Event
• (01:17)We're hiring three software engineers! ( www.TrainerRoad.com/jobs)
• (02:15) Why you should sync Strava and Garmin Connect to TrainerRoad
• (02:40)How to plan your year of training
• (03:15)How to set proper goals
• (11:55)How to make sure you peak at the right time
• (13:20)How to prioritize your races: A, B and C races
• (14:35)How to adjust your training plan
• (19:10)Dealing with multiple A Races
• (25:10)Adjusting plan when you don't have enough time
• (25:55)Adjusting plan when you have extra time
• (31:30)Definition of A, B and C Races
• (35:45)Adjusting training plan for illness
• (37:40)Adjusting training plan for business trips or vacation
• (41:40)Battling mental/physical fatigue and burnout
• (49:20)Do you really need an offseason?
• (56:10)Power vs. Heart Rate: Is heart rate still relevant?
• (1:00:00)Tips and tricks for getting started with indoor training
• (1:18:40)Are tubeless tires best for road too?
• (1:29:05)What is "going into the red" and should you actually avoid it?
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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 ask a cycling coach podcast presented by trainer road coach Jonathan Lee with our head coach Chad Zimmerman everybody and our CEO Nate Pearson hello and we are going to answer more of your cycling and triathlon related questions today right now you can submit them to us at trainer.com slash podcast all throughout the week will roll through that list every week and then we add in the questions that we can answer at that point that we'll have enough time for before we get into the questions. |
| 0:30.0 | Just a reminder the cyclic cross nationals event is going to be going on. |
| 0:34.5 | Of course the nationals event but we're having an event that coincides with it on the Saturday just before the pros race in that evening so if you're here for the event you can swing by trainer road I think I think Sierra Nevada is going to be bringing in a bunch of of refreshments shall I say. |
| 0:51.4 | We'll have some other some light refreshments in terms of food as well worry it looks like I'm not going to say their names yet because it isn't confirmed but we have two pros that have that has said yes they will but I just want to make sure it's double confirmed that they'll be here and it's basically going to be a live podcast like we did in San Francisco or like we're doing now but with people that are here they can come to the office and hang out and it'll be all about how to be how to become a faster cycle cross racer with the pros so it'll be pretty fun. |
| 1:18.6 | So you can join us for that and we'll have more details next week as we'll be getting right up to it. |
| 1:23.6 | Nate do you want to mention anything else about we still hiring developers trainer dot com slash jobs you are a C sharp or angular 2x web developer or if you are an application iOS Android Xamarin we Xamarin for mobile app. |
| 1:39.9 | Um desktop developer w pf also we're moving all the Xamarin that would be awesome so trainer dot com slash jobs and we do remote work. |
| 1:50.5 | So you don't have to live in Reno. |
| 1:51.6 | Yeah remote work right. |
| 1:52.6 | Yeah, but we're only hiring in the US just because of we've tried to go outside before and there's like all these tax things. |
| 1:58.8 | Yeah, the tax things are crazy. |
| 2:00.3 | So people can get hit with a big tax bill and expectantly and it just raises the complication level and there's the time zone issue. |
| 2:06.6 | But even if you're in the like the correct time zone, I could talk about for hours, but sorry US only awesome. |
| 2:12.6 | So also just another reminder for people, if you go into trainer dot com and go to your profile, if you're a trainer road user and you go into ride sink, you can sink trainer road to Garland connect and Strava and we recommend doing so for some upcoming features that we have coming up. |
| 2:29.2 | So go ahead and take care of that. |
| 2:30.0 | I've been. |
| 2:31.5 | I've already synced things and I've been using some of these new features and it's been awesome. |
| 2:36.4 | Really exciting. |
| 2:37.3 | So I think it's I think it's going to be something that's people are really going to enjoy. |
| 2:42.4 | Before we get to or I guess deep into the questions, this is more combining a bunch of questions that we had. |
| 2:48.3 | I guess it makes sense, right? |
| 2:49.4 | It's start of the year. |
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