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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