Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast - Presented by TrainerRoad

Share the podcast with your friends, and rate it 5-stars! iTunes: https://trainerroad.cc/apple2   Spotify: https://trainerroad.cc/spotify2 Google Podcasts: https://trainerroad.cc/google     TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE (01:22) Do massage guns work? (23:23) Are cyclists at high risk for fainting? (47:24) Why is it so hard to maintain fitness after a peak? (01:01:20) How to do altitude training ri...

🎉 AI FTP Detection is now available! More info here: https://trainerroad.cc/3F1rQ8O  Share the podcast with your friends, and rate it 5-stars! iTunes: https://trainerroad.cc/apple2  Spotify: https://trainerroad.cc/spotify2  Google Podcasts: https://trainerroad.cc/google  TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE (0:00) 🎉 AI FTP Detection is now available!  Are fast twitch athletes at a greater risk for ove...

Share the podcast with your friends, and rate it 5-stars! iTunes: https://trainerroad.cc/apple2   Spotify: https://trainerroad.cc/spotify2 Google Podcasts: https://trainerroad.cc/google     Hannah’s Whole Enchilada FKT: https://youtu.be/oErEWLGdPlI     TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE   - FKTs without a film crew are just KOMs - Hannah’s Whole Enchilada FKT - Stop spending money on your bike and jus...

Share the podcast with your friends, and rate it 5-stars! iTunes: https://trainerroad.cc/apple2  Spotify: https://trainerroad.cc/spotify2  Google Podcasts: https://trainerroad.cc/google  TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE (0:06) Does Bonking Make You Faster? (19:56) How VO2max work becomes easy (36:32) Should you fuel your strength workouts? (51:57) Trivia! (58:25) How to not lose fitness in the off-s...

Share the podcast with your friends, and rate it 5-stars! iTunes: https://trainerroad.cc/apple2   Spotify: https://trainerroad.cc/spotify2 Google Podcasts: https://trainerroad.cc/google     TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE   (0:25) Are you breathing wrong? (20:27) How to regain fitness quickly (43:52) Tips to lower your core body temperature (54:20) Trivia! (1:01:14) Are you tapering wrong? (1:11:27...

Hannah Otto joins us to discuss whether antibiotics make you slower, her tips for Leadville as the current champion, and a ton of discussion on common nutrition questions we get from all of you. Enjoy the episode, rate the podcast 5-stars in your podcast app, and share it with your friends! TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE (0:30) Do antibiotics make you slower? (26:22) Should endurance athletes alwa...

Join Rocket Sloth Co’s Ryan Standish and Squid Bikes Ivy Audrain as we cover how these pros pace different types of races, whether they avoid melatonin and other over the counter medications to enhance sleep, how to manage nutrition without tracking macros and calories, and for our first ever AACC Cycling Trivia!   TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE   (0:52) How to manage nutrition without food tracki...

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE - Is freshness more important than fitness? - Should TT bikes be allowed in amateur road racing? - Is Jonathan a better person now that he loves triathlon? - Is CX more technical than XC? - Has high-carb intake revolutionized pro racing? - Is intermittent fasting actually disordered eating? - When it might be a good idea not to pre-ride a course - Are gravel bikes wo...

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE (03:45) What Ivy is learning from her CX season (10:13) What Alex and Keegan learned from racing World Championship events (30:25) Red Bull Bay Climb (34:38) How pros analyze their races (49:25) How to start on loose surfaces (01:06:24) How to identify the rides that ruin training progress (01:25:10) Why does race performance not match training?   Watch our latest Cy...

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Subscribe to the Science of Getting Faster Podcast below! Spotify: https://trainerroad.cc/spotifysogf   iTunes: https://trainerroad.cc/itunessogf   TRY TRAINERROAD RISK FREE FOR 30 DAYS! TrainerRoad is the #1 cycling training app. No other cycling app is more effective. Over 13,000 positive reviews, a 4.9 star App Store rating.   Adaptive Training from TrainerRoad uses machine learning and science...

Ivy’s cyclocross season is starting, so we get her pro tips on CX racing and training, as well as Dr. Podlogar’s insight into why fueling seems much harder in hot conditions and much more in Episode 382 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast   TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE   (5:52) What happens when you get sick right before your goal event (6:43) Ivy’s race schedule (18:00) What head units are most...

Pete Morris join us to discuss what pros do better than amateurs, how to have an off-season that will set you up for a record year, and how we all think Keegan will do now that he has been selected to represent the USA at Road World Championships!! TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE (01:49) Keegan was selected to represent Team USA at Road World Championships! How will he do? (43:23) How to plan an of...

How fast are TrainerRoad employees? We look at the power file of TR employee and Team ProTouch’s Kent Main at the Maryland Cycling Classic, and it's shocking! We also cover time-crunched training, whether hard pre-race efforts make you race slower, and the hosts racing plans for 2023! TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE (0:31) Welcome back, Jonathan!  (24:10) Should Keegan Swenson be in the World Tour?...

Team Movistar’s Matteo Jorgenson joins Coach Jonathan Lee, Coach Chad Timmerman, and Santa Cruz Bicycles’ Keegan Swenson for a wide-ranging chat about pro racing, Tour de France breakaways, grand tour peaking and fueling, and the pro peloton’s opinion on gravel racing. The crew also answers listener questions about race day nerves and cramping, this week on Episode 379 of the Ask a Cycling Coach P...

Our good friend Pete Morris returns to the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast this week and joins Ivy, Nate, and Chad for an in-depth analysis of Coach Jonathan’s first XTERRA race. We also dive into another round of spicy hot takes on American criteriums, intermittent fasting, gravel race feed zone attacks, repeatability vs FTP, and more! TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE (8:16) Jonathan’s XTERRA Lake Taho...

With Coach Jonathan out on paternity leave, TrainerRoad CEO Nate Pearson hosts the podcast this week to interview two of the biggest names in gravel: 2022 Leadville Trail 100 winner Hannah Otto and 2022 Leadville Trail 100 and SBT GRVL winner Keegan Swenson. We learn about everything that went into their incredible wins—from training, equipment, and race day preparation, to tactics, pack dynamics,...

Coach Jonathan is out on paternity leave, so the rest of the podcast crew will be hosting for the next month. This week? We’ve got some hot takes with Ivy! We’ll cover the best and worst recovery hacks, discuss if group rides are even worth it, if gravel is just worse than cyclocross and should cyclists shave their legs. Tune in to Episode 376 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast for discussions on...

Coach Jonathan is out on paternity leave, so the rest of the podcast crew will be hosting for the next month. Up first? Our very own Coach Chad! We’ll cover whether coffee drinkers should manage their hydration differently, whether recovery days hurt sleep quality, and why you are getting dropped even when you’re fit. Tune in to Episode 375 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast for discussions on the...

Coach Jonathan's having a baby, so we're off this week and the rest of the podcast crew will be hosting for the next month. Keep sharing the podcast with your friends, rating the podcast, and submitting your questions at www. TrainerRoad.com/podcast, and we'll see you next week with Coach Chad as our host! TRY TRAINERROAD RISK FREE FOR 30 DAYS! TrainerRoad is the #1 cycling training app. No other...

Does spending time outside in the heat cause heat adaptation, what can you do to lower RPE in the heat, and does training in the heat cause swelling? We’ll cover this as well as a discussion on fat burning for endurance athletes, the aerodynamic implications of out-of-the-saddle pedaling, and much more in Episode 373 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!   TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE   (15:57) Wh...

Ice Friction / The Feed’s Alex Wild and Squid Bikes’ Ivy Audrain join us to discuss how to achieve your fastest 100mi possible, whether training at the bottom or top of a zone really makes a difference, and much more in Episode 372 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!   TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE   (01:39) Alex’s learnings from Crusher in The Tushar (17:21) Does training at the top or bottom of...

What would you change about pro cycling, when are counterattacks bad form, how to prepare for counterattacks and respond to them, and when does weight stop mattering for time trialists. We’ll cover all of this and more in Episode 371 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!   TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE (7:24) What would you change about pro racing? (35:04) What does your power meter calibration num...

There’s a common mistake that many cyclists make that could be hurting their sprint power. Join Coach Chad, Ivy Audrain, Nate Pearson, and Coach Jonathan for a discussion on this, when should you launch your sprint, what happens when you take in too much sugar on the bike, the scientific research on whether it’s better to spin lightly or stop pedaling between intervals, and more in Episode 370 of...

Pivot Cycles’ and DT Swiss’ Hannah Otto joins us to discuss her learnings from her recent UCI XC MTB wins in Montana and Alberta, as well as discussions on substrate utilization at different intensities, what research says about the effectiveness of spinning between intervals, her tips for muddy riding conditions, and much more in Episode 369 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!   TOPICS COVERED IN...