Category / Cycling / Endurance training / Heart rate / Human performance / Human physiology / Testing / Uncategorized
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Using FTP
Functional Threshold Power (FTP) has become the standard for testing cycling performance in recent years. It has not become the standard because it is what professionals or sports scientists recommend, but because…
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Run Slow to Run Fast
Running has become a very popular pastime lately with the growing popularity of the parkrun and city marathons etc. Running is accessible because it requires no facilities or complex equipment. It is…
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When training hard doesn’t work
Increasing fitness is a cyclical process of applying stress, adapting and progressing. Progressive overload is used in training to provide effective stimuli over weeks and months to increase our abilities. Progression can…
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Watts Vs. Heart rate.
Any serious endurance athlete will have a training plan. This plan will generally use heart rate or wattage as the variable around which they structure their training sessions. In recent years wattage…
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Heart rate training part 2: Using your zones!
In Heart rate training 1 we discussed what heart rate training was and why it exists. In this part the practical aspect will be discussed and hopefully simplified. As mentioned, lactate threshold…
