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You've finished a ride and are resting with your feet up. Then you stand up and suddenly feel lightheaded. What gives? You've just experienced the effects of postexercise hypotension. But what is postexercise hypotension, the causes, and how can you manage it?

Training specificity might seem to imply that long events require long training rides, but energy systems are more important than duration or TSS.

Finding the right cycling workouts to help you lose weight, how a year of training and no racing will affect your performance, the most common cycling myths debunked and more in Episode 268 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast.

Longtime friends and stage racing teammates, Alex Mallet and Brandon Watson, did their first major stage race at one of the most challenging stage races in the world —the Cape Epic in Cape Town, South Africa. From their achievements to their mistakes, here’s how Alex and Brandon tackled their first big stage race, and what they recommend to any athlete interested in mountain bike stage racing.

For more cycling training knowledge, listen to Ask a Cycling Coach — the only podcast dedicated to making you a faster cyclist. New episodes are released weekly.