Understanding your performance begins with understanding each workout. See how coaches and experts analyze and interpret workout and race data to understand performance.
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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.
Coach Connor busts several myths as he discusses the good, the bad, and the ugly of CTL.
Coach Wenzel helps answer questions on travel, final race prep, big gear work on LSD rides, pushing through exhaustion, and training races.
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.
TrainingPeaks is popular, but WKO5 is a much more powerful tool. Coach Trevor Connor has extensive experience with WKO and shares his favorite features.
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.
Head Coach Ryan Kohler details his favorite features of intervals.icu, a relatively new data analysis tool.
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.
We highlight the most powerful features of each of the three most popular training analysis tools.
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.
Dr. Stephen Seiler presents on the history and future of endurance sports testing and monitoring.
Dr. Stephen Seiler dives into Mathieu van der Poel’s power data from the 2021 Tour of Flanders to decipher what it takes to excel in a Spring Classic.
The “comments” field in TrainingPeaks is not to be ignored: It can be a helpful guide for coaches and a useful reference for athletes.
We explore whether Strava and other new training apps can make you faster, and how to effectively fit them into a structured training plan.
Coaches Trevor Connor and Ryan Kohler review TrainingPeaks metrics such as Acute and Chronic Training Load (ATL/CTL), Training Stress Balance (TSB), and discuss the interactions among the metrics.
Dr. Stephen Seiler analyzes a 13-plus-hour Zwift ride by Jonas Abrahamsen of the Uno-X Pro Cycling Team from Norway.
We review four recent studies from the scientific literature, addressing the hypotheses, methods, and conclusions of each to give you a greater understanding of the latest findings in endurance research.
Coaches Ryan Kohler and Trevor Connor demonstrate how to spot trends in the relationship between power and heart rate using intervals.icu.