To give your coach a greater insight into your fatigue levels and to assist to monitor your recovery, loading daily metrics such as Resting HR, HRV, Sleep quality and quantity into TrainingPeaks can be very valuable. Especially when things don’t go smoothly in your training, having this data to further analyse can help shed light on the situation.
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How to Transfer Data from one Workout File to Another within TrainingPeaks
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As you work your way through this training programme you’ll build your Functional Threshold Power (FTP). With regular FTP tests every 4 weeks you’ll be able to measure and see your progress.
Designed for Intermediate cyclists and triathletes who need a short sharp boost to thier training over 6 weeks. This plan will lift your FTP qwikly over the next 6 weeks.
Matt Fitzgerald has written numerous books around enhancing performance for both runners and triathletes. In his The Runner’s Edge book that he wrote with Stephen McGregor he describes using TrainingPeak’s Performance Management Chart (PMC) to manage periodisation and also optimise performance.
View More Matt Fitzgerald’s High Tech Periodisation for a Runner’s Edge
I want my athletes to give me the finger, and often. Actually I look for it in about 80% of their workouts. And I encourage it. I’ve been describing it like this to myself for a few years. The idea of this article has also been floating around my head for just as long. I just haven’t verbalised it to anyone….so excuse me if this seems a bit of a weird context 😃
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Well what’s happened this week! Started the usual way, some good sessions, the run was really good 4 x 6 mins at 8:20 per mile…
View More Mike’s Middle Distance Magic: Sometimes surprises happen!
I promised myself I’d have a better week this week. I’d really get stuck in and make my ‘Training Peaks (TP) pie graph nice and green. Turn of events is seeming like this may not happen. I try not to let it get to me, but it is super frustrating, especially when you know you have an event coming up, but sometimes that’s just life.
View More Lisa’s Journey, Week 41: Is The Grass Greener On The Other Side…?
I have my two amazing daughters 50/50 with their dad and it’s hard. I miss them. They truly are my everything. I enjoy being a mum more than anything in this world and it’s the thing I am most proud of accomplishing in my entire life. When I was first thrown into this situation, it was very trying. The weeks without them seemed to take forever to go by. As time has gone on, I now look at the weeks without them as the weeks I can go ‘big’ on training.
View More Ali’s Adventure – Balancing The Parent Thingy
Functional Threshold Power (FTP) is a key determinant of cycling fitness. By enhancing your FTP by definition you will be a fitter, faster cyclist.
View More Thursday Training Plan: Functional Threshold Power (FTP) CYCLING Training Plan (Intermediate 6 week Plan – Start Any Monday
With Training Peaks publishing the power profiles for some of the professionals riding the Tour de France this year, I’ve taken some time to look…
View More 2018 Tour de France Stage 6 Power Analysis