Predicting Performance with Data and Feel
Trying to predict your performance can be nerve-wracking but in this era of training metrics and numbers, data can tell you a lot.
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How to Analyze Your Gravel Ride
Coach Ryan Kohler demonstrates how to analyze ride data from a gravel workout with a high aerobic strain.
Advanced Performance Data Analysis Pathway
Learn advanced data analysis for cycling, triathlon, and running workouts and races. With new data analysis tools, you can make better decisions about your training.
Extend Your Analytical Skills
Joe Friel details the ways in which coaches can identify strengths and weaknesses in movement patterns, motivation, and training execution.
A Deeper Dive into Intervals.icu Charts: Pre-Built and Custom Charts
Coach Ryan Kohler highlights his favorite Intervals.icu analysis tools and how to use them to improve your training.
Quantifying Hard Efforts
Dr. Stephen Cheung explores the various ways athletes and coaches can quantify hard efforts, and how this can inform training.
Dr. Seiler and Siren Seiler Analyze Molly Seidel’s Olympic Marathon Training
Dr. Stephen Seiler and his daughter, an elite runner and sport science student, analyze bronze medalist Molly Seidel’s Olympic training.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Chronic Training Load (CTL)
We examine the pros and cons of using chronic training load (CTL) as well as the ways it can take your endurance sports training off track.
Chronic Training Load (CTL) Isn’t Everything
Coach Connor busts several myths as he discusses the good, the bad, and the ugly of CTL.
Q&A on Travel and Training, CTL, Race Prep, and Big Gear LSD Rides, with Kendra Wenzel
Coach Wenzel helps answer questions on travel, final race prep, big gear work on LSD rides, pushing through exhaustion, and training races.
An Introduction to Training Metrics, Part 2
The interrelationship between form, fitness, and fatigue is the basis for quantifying training load. Performance Management Charts help athletes visualize and interpret that balance. Coach Trevor Connor explains the science.
Coach Connor’s Favorite WKO Features
TrainingPeaks is popular, but WKO5 is a much more powerful tool. Coach Trevor Connor has extensive experience with WKO and shares his favorite features.
An Introduction to Training Metrics, Part 1
Physiologists and coaches have attempted to quantify training through both external and internal measures. We review the primary training metrics and detail the benefits and shortcomings of each.
The Most Powerful Features of Intervals.icu
Head Coach Ryan Kohler details his favorite features of intervals.icu, a relatively new data analysis tool.
Should We Race by Numbers? With Dirk Friel
Should you pay attention to the numbers on your head unit while you’re racing? If so, which ones, and when? We dive in with TrainingPeaks co-founder Dirk Friel.
The Best Features of TrainingPeaks, Strava, and Garmin Connect
We highlight the most powerful features of each of the three most popular training analysis tools.
Basic Performance Data Analysis Pathway
Analyzing your training is a critical aspect of improving fitness. With the help of Dr. Stephen Seiler, Colby Pearce, Julie Young, and many others, we explore how and why to monitor and analyze data, and explore different approaches to interpreting and managing your workout data.
Endurance Performance Testing and Monitoring—Past, Present, and Future
Dr. Stephen Seiler presents on the history and future of endurance sports testing and monitoring.