One Workout — Many Responses
In this workshop, Dr. Stephen Cheung uses Xert software to illustrate how a single workout can impact athletes differently depending on their phenotype.
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Coach’s Corner: Assessing 60- to 90-min Power to Support 20-min Test Data
Coaches Trevor Connor and Ryan Kohler analyze data from longer threshold efforts to support results garnered from the popular 20-minute power test.
What Training Data Tells Us, and When to Ignore It
Crunching numbers is one thing, but if you want to turn data into victory, here are a few key things you should do and a few things to avoid.
Why and How to Monitor Athlete Training Loads
Dr. Stephen Seiler speaks at the Aspire Academy on why and how to monitor athlete training loads.
Q&A on Max Heart Rate, Time-Crunched Recovery, TSS, and Protein
Ryan and Trevor field questions on max heart rate, TSS, recovery in athletes who only train 8-10 hours per week, protein consumption during ultra-endurance events, and more.
The Holy Trinity: How to Monitor Training
Dr. Seiler shares his method for monitoring an athlete’s training volume and intensity.
How to Tell If Your Legs Are Ready for a Workout
Coach Ryan Kohler and Coach Trevor Connor dissect training data to help you understand how to look for signs of freshness before any interval session.
How to Set Up Your Bike Computer
Head Coach Ryan Kohler and Trevor Connor share how to best set up your bike computer head unit with screenshots, button configs, and more.
Coach’s Corner: How to Determine FTP from a 20-Minute Power Test
Coaches Trevor Connor and Ryan Kohler analyze data from 20-minute power tests, offering important lessons on the proper execution of these intervals.
Coach’s Corner: Power and Cadence Analysis of Climbing Intervals
Coach Ryan Kohler and Trevor Connor analyze climbing intervals at threshold, focusing on the importance of cadence and pace.
What Exactly Is a Long Slow Distance Ride?
Coaches Trevor Connor and Ryan Kohler analyze ride data from one of Trevor’s LSD (long, slow distance) rides in order to explain the correct execution of one of these fundamental rides.
Coach’s Corner: How to Interpret Pedaling Cadence Data
Coach Ryan Kohler and Trevor Connor demonstrate how to interpret pedaling cadence data and look for signs of poor workout execution.
How to Analyze 5×5 Intervals in TrainingPeaks
Coach Trevor Connor and Coach Ryan Kohler walk through their process for interpreting 5×5-minute interval workout sessions in TrainingPeaks.
How to Analyze Cyclocross Power Files
Coach Grant Holicky and head coach Ryan Kohler teach you how to analyze cyclocross power files in TrainingPeaks.
War of Attrition: Performance Analysis of a World Championship Cycling Road Race
Here is a lap-by-lap performance analysis of one rider who made it almost to the very end at the 2020 UCI Road World Championships in Imola, Italy.
Balancing Science and Experience in Your Training, with Cameron Cogburn
How do you, as an athlete, combine your understanding of sport science and your training and racing experience to most effectively map out your training? That question is the basis for today’s episode, one in which we drift between the philosophical and the practical.
How to Use Data to Make Better Training Decisions, with Tim Cusick
We explore how to use a training philosophy to design your program, then use metrics to guide how much, how often, and how difficult those workouts should be.
When to Push and When to Pull the Plug, with Kate Courtney
While there are many tools to measure training stress, few measure recovery. Today we dive into how to determine where you’re at in the recovery process.