Join us live for Episode 190 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast! We’ll be talking about the best ways to strategically increase your odds of winning races, giving you a comprehensive guide to strength training for cyclists, covering when it is a good idea to complete two Build Phases back-to-back, a special announcement from Nate and Chad, and much more!
Great tip on the neck exercise thing @Nate_Pearson. Have the same issue, long skinny neck. Have been doing Y-T-Ws as a finisher to strngthing the shoulder muscles to keep the neck and head up.
How often do you use it? Like how many days a week?/sets and reps?
I have been doing strength/gym work for the past couple of months (mostly squats and deadlifts with a few specific upper body exercises thrown in).
A few thoughts on that:
I wonder how that translate to doing < 3 session per week. I only do 1 session a week to interfere less with my cycling/life.
I seem to have put on some muscle size (hypertrophy), I can only assume this will impact aerodynamics, as a cyclist what I really want is strength and actively don’t want size.
I hate to say this, but I am sure that you have this the wrong way round. The graphic you posted is correct but the text you wrote is not.
Accuracy is the discrepancy between the actual value and the measured value. Precision is the variation in the measured value for the same actual value.
From Wikipedia:
In the fields of science, the accuracy of a measurement system is the degree of closeness of measurements of a quantity to that quantity’s true value.
The precision of a measurement system, related to reproducibility and repeatability, is the degree to which repeated measurements under unchanged conditions show the same results.
So I just listened to this podcast and have a question.
I have completed the sweet spot base mid volume 1 and almost done with 2. I planned on doing the short power build next then the short power build again and no specialty phase as I will be starting race season and I race a minimum of 3 races a week (crits). My question is coach Chad doesn’t recommend the build phase back to back.
Would should I do it since I am not doing specialty or should I swap the first build out for something?
You can also cut up plans and do half a build and fill the rest with a base. If you have done a base block recently that shouldn’t get in too much trouble.
I don’t have enough knowledge to make a better recommendation. The double Build seems like a tough call to me, considering how hard they seem to be for me.
Maybe if you do a Low Volume one along with your outside races and rides, you would be good?
