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325, ask a cycling coach, Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast, cross training, distraction, engagement, entertainment, focus, free trial, ftp, functional fitness, functional threshold power, hiking, podcast, positioning, skiing, skills, sprint, sprinting, strength training, technique, weight gain, weight loss -

Cross-Training, Raising Power While Dropping Weight and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 325

Cross-training is not usually considered as necessary for cyclists, but should it be? We’ll cover the science of cross-training, how to raise power while dropping weight and much more in this episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!

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313, aerobic, aerodynamics, aggressive, ask a cycling coach, Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast, bike handling, breathing, cadence, cardiac output, crit, criterium, ftp, heart rate, hrm, l39ion, l39ion of los angeles, legion, legion of los angeles, racing, tactics, team, threshold, tulsa, tulsa tough, ventilatory threshold, vo2, vo2max -

Heart Rate Deep Dive, Tulsa Tough, FTP and VO2Max and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 313

Coach Chad is back! This week we dig into how VO2max affects FTP, why heart rate may be lower or higher for different people at different times, and discussions about positioning in aggressive groups, heat, crashing and more inspired by Tulsa Tough.

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311, all-out, altitude training, ask a cycling coach, Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast, balance, basal metabolic rate, blood plasma, bmr, calories, deficit, elevation, event, form, freshness, ftp, goal, heat, heat acclimation, heat adaptation, heat adaption, heat training, hematocrit, hold, indoor trainer, inside, lean, loss, matches, mental, mental strength, mentality, muscle, nutrition, oxygen, peak fitness, peaking, personal records, podcast, power, PRs, psychology, race tactics, race win, red blood cells, rest, resting metabolic rate, sleep high, sleep low, sprints, strategy, sustain, target, train high, train low, weight -

Peak Fitness, All-Out Efforts, Elevation Training and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 311

How to reach and maintain peak fitness for as long as possible, how many all-out efforts does a rider have each year, how to use elevation training and heat training to get faster and much more in Episode 311 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast!

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TSS, IF, and Workout Levels: 3 Metrics to Help You Understand Your Training And Get Faster

Training Stress Score (TSS), Intensity Factor (IF), and Workout Levels are useful ways to quantify the challenge and effect of a workout. Taken together, these 3 metrics help tell the story of your training, but it’s important to understand the differences of each. What does each metric mean, and how can you use them to get faster?

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309, aero, aero position, aerodynamics, ask a cycling coach, Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast, bike fit, carbohydrate, carbs, cross country, detraining, diet, fitness, flexibility, ftp, heart rate, loana lecomte, mathieu van der poel, mobility, mountain bike, mtb, mtb world cup, nino schurter, nutrition, pauline ferrand prevot, power, power meter, power to weight ratio, race tactics, rate of perceived exertion, recovery, rest, rpe, slow, strategy, threshold, time off, time trial, tom pidcock, triathlon, tt, TT position, w/kg, xc, yolanda neff -

Losing Fitness, Raising Power with Nutrition, Aero vs. Power and More – Ask a Cycling Coach 309

Detraining happens any time we decrease training stimulus, but how quickly does it happen, how can you retain as much fitness as possible, and how should you adjust your race strategy as a result? Join us for a deep dive into this and many other topics in Episode 309 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.

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