MTB World Champion Kate Courtney joins the podcast to give you the insights to what it takes to be a World Champion including how she builds resilience through mental training, how she is able to quickly recover from crashes, why she uses strength training to get faster and more in Episode 272 of Th…

How much of her weight training is related to the requirements of mountain biking compared to what she might consider is needed for road cycling? How does she quantify the stress from her weight training to minimize overworking the body from the totality of the weight training and the on-the-bike tr…

Can Courtney explain how much tactics are involved in winning an XC MTB race? It looks like that most of the times the strongest riders wins in XC MTB. When you compare it to road cycling where tactics and many external factors determine the results. I do not really see this in XC MTB, excepts for …

I think it’s a new Scale hardtail. It’s due for a refresh, and there was reference to another ultralight hardtail to be released this week in the CyclingTips article about the new Canyon Exceed.

The new scales are already in some stores. They are the same frame as last year. The bike she was riding had huge tires, like a trail or Enduro bike. [Screenshot_20200813-115842]

Ah yes good catch, those are some beefy tires. The bars look a little wide too. Not sure what it would be then. I think the Genius and the trail version of the Spark both have pretty modern revisions, right?

[Screenshot_20200818-102444] Here it is. Genius?

How is her strength training periodized? For Build, base and race season? When it’s race season what Does her “maintenance” strength session usually consist of? Rooting for her to crush the Olympics next year and all races for that matter :muscle:

She was running tire inserts for some of the events last year. Be curious on her thoughts regarding these and whether she runs them day to day on her training bikes.

[image] User67890: Hah, yea that was before she went truly beast mode in the XCO world. I’d definitely like to hear her give the team some Cape Epic tips. Don’t let Nate get started. They’ll spend 2hrs talking about Cape Epic, and then Jonathan will be like “whoops, we’re out of time because…

Get out of my head, @timon ! :rofl:

MTB World Champion Kate Courtney – Ask a Cycling Coach 272

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alexstenerson August 18, 2020, 3:25pm 18

Here it is. Genius?

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