How your body type and muscle fiber composition relates to your cycling training, improving your power and speed on descents, how to train for repeatability in races and more in Episode 277 of The Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.
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Topics Covered in This Episode:
- How your body type relates to your cycling training
- How to train for repeatability in a race
- Adjusting your training when life gets stressful
- Improving your power and speed on descents
- How oval chainrings affect power meter readings
- The difference between a warm-up and an opener
- Why weightlifting can help your muscular endurance
- What to do if your base training feels too easy
- How to start measuring the composition of your diet
- How to return to training after illness
- How to beat Nate in a mountain bike race
- Book recommendations from the TR Coaches
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Episode Notes:
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- Early Access to iOS Beta: Updated TrainerRoad
- Join the TrainerRoad Team!
- How To Build A Manual Trainer For $25 - DIY
- Better Manuals In 1 Day - How To Manual
- The Heath-Carter Anthropometric Somatype
- The influence of somatotype on anaerobic performance
- Effects of dominant somatotype on aerobic capacity trainability
- An anthropometric analysis of elite Australian track cyclists
- Anthropometric comparison of cyclists from different events
- World and Olympic mountain bike champions’ anthropometry, body composition and somatotype
- Favero Assioma Power Pedals
- The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
- Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever
- Faster: The Obsession, Science and Luck Behind the World’s Fastest Cyclists
- The Wedge: Evolution, Consciousness, Stress, and the Key to Human Resilience
- How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle
- The Endurance Diet: Discover the 5 Core Habits of the Worlds Greatest Athletes to Look, Feel, and Perform Better
- Eat Race Win: The Endurance Athlete’s Cookbook
- The Grand Tour Cookbook
- Skratch Labs - The Feedzone Cookbook
- Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body’s Radical Resilience through the New Biology