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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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