Hot Takes! Weight, CdA, FKTs and More - Ask a Cycling Coach 391
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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE
- FKTs without a film crew are just KOMs
- Hannah’s Whole Enchilada FKT
- Stop spending money on your bike and just train more
- There’s nothing wrong with attacking in the feed zone
- If you stop at a gas station during an endurance ride, do you destroy all the benefits?
- Socks go under your leg warmers
- Fatter can be faster
- Training on the rollers is more effective than a static trainer
- Everyone would be a better athlete if they went to therapy
- We need a better metric for measuring fitness than w/kg or FTP
- There’s nothing wrong with wearing your bibs 6-8 times before washing them. Fine for me.
- Gravel tires with big lugs make no sense unless you’re riding very muddy roads
- Commuting in jeans to work on my ebike does not make me less of a person
- 1 hour in the weight room is worth more than 2 hours in base/Z1/Z2 riding.
- VO2 max workouts are better without a power meter.
- Aero bars don’t belong on bikes with knobby tires
- A good result in a crit is 90% luck.
- Body weight exercises are an acceptable substitution for traditional weight training.
- Watts per CdA is more important for most riders than w/kg
- Oversized pulley wheels are a waste of money
- Pidcock podiums the /23 TdF
- MTBrs are sad they aren’t the cool kids anymore. That’s why they low key hate on gravel
- Black mold in your bottle is where all the flavor is at
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