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Intervals, Part 5

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Joe Friel gets back to Interval Training with part 5...dont miss this.

Question: Why am I so Tired?

Many successful endurance athletes are type-A personalities. They are driven to succeed. While this is necessary to some extent, too much drive and motivation can lead to disastrous training and poor performance. This is evident in the following question that I received today. The athlete, a cyclist, understands a lot about the intricacies of training. His question uses several terms common to power-savvy cyclists who use power meters (or GPS devices for runners). Here’s a quick reference so you can understand what he is asking in case you don’t train with power (or a GPS):

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Coming Back from Serious Injury

You may recall that I broke my pelvis in a bike crash back in early April (be careful around car doors that may open!). Since then I've received several emails from other athletes who have also had serious injuries and wondered how I was doing. I appreciate their well wishes. I suspect part of their reason for writing is that “misery loves company.” Returning from an injury is probably as much of a mental issue as a physical one--perhaps more so.

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Real World Peaking

The accompanying Performance Management Chart (PMC) from WKO+ software is for a road cyclist I coach (click to enlarge). It shows his entire season from last September’s transition period (when he worked much too hard) until today. It basically tells the story of his season from highs to lows. In 2012 it will also serve as a model for how the previous season went and what he might do differently.

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Inner Ring On The Tour De France | Cyclingnews.com

Inner Ring On The Tour De France | Cyclingnews.com.

A First Tour De France Week As We Know It | Cyclingnews.com

A First Tour De France Week As We Know It | Cyclingnews.com.

Training for Advanced Athletes, Part 3

In part 1 I wrote about a topic I’ve addressed here many times before: The limited value of training volume for the advanced athlete and the necessity of emphasizing event-specific intensity, especially in the last 12 weeks prior to a targeted race. This does not mean that volume is unimportant.

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Training for Advanced Athletes, Part 2

This post is a clarification of my earlier post on the same topic. I’ll get back to describing advanced-athlete training once I’ve cleared up an obvious matter I overlooked earlier.

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Training for Advanced Athletes, Part 1

Should all athletes training for a given event prepare in the same way? I expect most readers of this blog to answer that with a resounding “no.” It’s fairly obvious that if your intent is to win the race you will train altogether differently from that of the athlete whose goal is to simply finish the event.

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7 Basic Training Assumptions

There are 7 basic training assumptions that keep me on the right path with the athletes I coach. These certainly aren’t earth-shaking thoughts but they lead in a direction that perhaps you hadn’t thought of before.

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