Happiness and Performance, Limiters, Cellular Adaptation & More – Ask a Cycling Coach 200

March 28, 2019

Our 200th episode of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast will feature discussions on happiness and performance, how to understand and overcome your performance limiters, how training changes your body at a cellular level, and much more!

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE

• How to use a lack of race fitness to your advantage
• New race analysis videos: sag climbing and descending
• What beet juice actually does for performance
• How to overcome fitness blocks
• How to do a fair self-analysis of your cycling potential
• Why muscle fiber composition isn't a strict determinant of performance
• How training changes our body at the cellular level
• A guide to strategic decision making in race situations
• How to recognize changes in wind
• How to know if you should abandon a race plan or stick to it
• Why a faster cadence is almost always a better solution for climbing
• How long does it take to lose the benefit of a warmup?
• Why and how you should calibrate your power meter every ride
• Is sparkling water bad for performance?
• How being happy makes you faster
• Why you shouldn't get out of the saddle toward the end of the TrainerRoad ramp test

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