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May 2023
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Breath Training, Why You Aren’t Getting ...

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TOPICS COVERED IN THIS EPISODE:

(0:00)  🏁 Ivy and Jonathan are racing Singletrack 6! Short preview, expectations, etc.

(16:00) 🫁 Do inspiratory and respiratory breathing (breath training) devices make you faster?

(33:09) 🥵 What is the maximum amount of training busy professionals should do? (Balancing work with training)

(42:15) 🧐 Why you aren’t getting faster (Why isn’t my training working?)

(57:02) 🔥 Why you are getting dropped in race starts (how to train for hard starts)

 

LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

- Singletrack 6 Stage Breakdowns: https://trainerroad.cc/st6spreadsheet

- Effect of respiratory muscle training on exercise performance in healthy individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Illi, et al., 2012: https://trainerroad.cc/Illi2012

- Influence of Inspiratory Muscle Training on Ventilatory Efficiency and Cycling Performance in Normoxia and Hypoxia, Salazar-Martinez, et al., 2017: https://trainerroad.cc/SalazarMartinez2017

- Inspiratory muscle training improves cycling time-trial performance and anaerobic work capacity but not critical power, Johnson, et al., 2007: https://trainerroad.cc/Johnson2017

- Time to Move Beyond a “One-Size Fits All” Approach to Inspiratory Muscle Training, Shei, et al., 2022: https://trainerroad.cc/Shei2022

- Grinduro California: https://trainerroad.cc/GrinduroCA

- Stetina’s Paydirt: https://trainerroad.cc/StetinasPaydirt 



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