#449 – Fraud or For Real - Part 2

Crushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

This is our second version of “Fraud or For Real” and we answer questions from our closed Facebook group. We look at drafting on the run, carb loading, training through bad diets. Also, goggle fog, are shoes faster than others, optimum weight for racing, road bikes vs. tri bikes. And what about disc wheels? Do they make that much difference? Is there a comfortable saddle? Do shorter cranks help triathletes? And . . . what’s the perfect taper?

Topics:

• You can Draft While Running?
• Is there such a thing as “Carb Loading”
• You can “out-train” a bad diet
• The Nike ZoomX Vaporfly will take minutes off my run?
• The best way to avoid goggle fog is spitting?
• The less I weigh, the faster I will be?
• If you don’t complete a set of Tarzan drills coach will give you the same drills twice in the same week?
• The perfect taper doesn’t exist?
• If you don’t eat the right balance of protein and carbs right after a workout, you are not maximizing the benefits of the workout?
• Disk wheel or no disk? Really that important for a Sprint or Oly?
• I will one day find a saddle that my tushie finds comfortable?
• Shorter cranks are in general better for triathletes?
• The more “stuff” I have, the better I’ll get?
• My road bike can smoke your trip bike on any course that is not totally flat. So I’m better off saving 4k?
• A fan is super important for cooling during bike workouts?

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