How To Increase Training Consistency, Racing vs. Training, and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 413

Weird, when I type @chad his name doesn’t pop up.

You are forgiven. :grinning:

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It is our place to know. We pay the freight as they say. I would expect some degree of transparency.

Are people forgetting about Reid Weber?

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“He/TR doesn’t owe you anything else”??? We fund this company with our subscriptions. Maybe we don’t owe them that!

Banned from the forums?

Now lets try to figure out what handles are the ALT accounts for Chad, Nate & Jonathan. :rofl:

You don’t owe them that. You’re a customer and can cancel if you don’t want to pay them. It is literally that easy.

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Maybe I’ll go to my local grocery store and demand why such and such is no longer around. After all, “I pay their bills”, right? :joy:

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Big Soviet vibes.

Nate “Iron Fist” Pearson

Yeah that was pretty funny. Keegan just about coming out and saying he trains (1) a polarized model and (2) his intervals sessions have nothing to do with TR workouts. Basically, he laid down the “just ride lots” strategy to being the best in the world.

It’s a bummer to see Chad go. I liked his generally calm attitude which balanced Nate’s ADD on the podcast nicely. I wonder if the workout text that mentions his name (e.g. “Coach Chad here…”) is already deleted?

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Chad, did I hear right that FTP gets detected with outside unstructured rides?……so what is missing…PL update with unstructured rides?

Chad isn’t going to answer you because he’s been cancelled by AI

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  • Yes, AIFTPD uses ALL rides/workouts with power data, imported into your TR career.

  • We are still waiting on Workout Levels Version 2.0 (also called Adaptive Training 2.0 on some podcasts) that is meant to analyze non-TR workouts (aka “outside” rides) and assign Progression Levels. This is the feature we have been waiting for a long time.

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So…Chad GPT then? Who’s next? I hope Nate and company understands that certain human touch is still highly appreciated among athletes, my sophisticated guess…

If there’s a new coach in the making, Chad is super super high reference for that position. I really liked his balance for science side of sport (not too much but keeping practical side of things as they are outside IRL), his time efficiency (over 3hrs is complete waste of time) and his common sense and humanity on general level. Really big boots to fill.

There is no limit to the number of owners an LLC can have.

How’s your training going? Anything different?

“Honestly its very similar, a bit more volume this year, more 7, 8, 9 plus hour rides… I’d rather go ride for 7 or 9 hours than go do structure.” Some clarification that its mid to high endurance. And some structure - “I still do a lot of structure.”

LOL welcome to my world the last 3 years, except on an 8-12 hour/week budget. Lots of mid to high endurance, and some structure. Its the FasCat way. Other coaches and coaching companies use that as a template too. I’m too old and too much work stress to do more than 8-12 hours/week, but for ME its working better and producing better results than 3-4 hours/week TR LV high-intensity, or even the 5-7 hour/week TR MV. Wake me up when AI/Skynet figures this out., I’ve played with ChatGPT enough to know its only regurgitating info its been fed from websites. Low cadence bad. High torque good. As if those are actually different. Skynet LOL.

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Correct but if you have more than a few then it’s better to file as a corp

This may be a dumb statement/question, but I don’t understand the difference and this sends me into a spiral of not knowing what to do.

I did the Fascat Optimize 7 day trial and signed up for a gravel plan. It is intensity Tuesday and Wednesday, Z2 Thursday, and a long ride on the weekend.

I also have a Dylan plan that is pretty similar.

It seems like everyone kind of agrees 2 short intensity days in the week and long endurance rides on the weekend. For low/mid plans anyway.

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