Tag "planning"
Three Times You Want to See Your Little Blue Line Take a Nose Dive
Athletes who use the TrainingPeaks Performance Manager Chart effectively have a potentially huge advantage over their competition in their ability to see the big picture at a glance.
Managing Your Coach
Here are some ideas for managing your coach. I recommend that you print this out and run through these questions on your next call.
Breakthrough Training: Four Key Lessons for the Serious, Frustrated Athlete
Those with big goals — Kona qualification, IM podium — simply can’t afford to take an ad-hoc approach any more.
Periodization Simplified
I am currently reading what I consider to be one of the best books on training theory and practice that I have ever put my hands on.
Season Planning – Part IV: Determining Training Volume and Intensity
In this final installment, I’m going to bring the concepts of phasing your season and planning training stress together and show how these elements go into determining the actual training volume and intensity that we plan for each week.
Season Planning – Part III: Determining Load Structure
What does chronic training load (CTL) mean in terms of actual daily load?
Season Planning – Part II: Setting Phases, Objectives and Checkpoints
Once we know the athlete’s starting point and end destination, we can begin to identify some checkpoints along the way that let the coach and the athlete know they are on the right course.
Season Planning – Part I: Realistic Goal Setting
I figured it apt to begin at the beginning and look at how to go about undertaking that crucial first step of setting performance goals for next season.
Anatomical Considerations in Bike Fit: Fitting the Machine to the Athlete – Part III
In this article we’re going to complete the process by solving that one remaining (variable) aspect of the equation — your bike’s dimensions.
Anatomical Considerations in Bike Fit: Fitting the Machine to the Athlete – Part II
I’m going to delve into the nitty gritty of how to measure both your body dimensions and range of motion capabilities to come up with the ideal bike position for someone with your unique body dimensions and flex-ability.
