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Watts Doc #15: Heart Rate Or Power To Pace Endurance Rides?

12/22/2019

Whether we should pace endurance rides by heart rate or power is a training question where the usual answers lack sufficient depth. In this episode we provide enough context, and an alternative, that you might find the right style of riding for yourself.

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High Efficiency of Type I Fibers Improves Performance
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8005729

The slow component of oxygen uptake during intense, sub-maximal exercise in
man is associated with additional fibre recruitment
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14758477

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Watts Doc #14: Effective FTP Training

12/10/2019

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In this highly anticipated episode, a scientific paper and some metabolic logic show us a simple, effective way to make your FTP training better.

Show Notes
Training effect on performance, substrate balance and blood lactate concentration at maximal lactate steady state in master endurance-runners
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14740217

FTP Testing
https://www.trainingpeaks.com/blog/the-physiology-of-ftp-and-new-testing-protocols/

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Watts Doc #15: Heart Rate Or Power To Pace Endurance Rides?

Watts Doc #14: Effective FTP Training

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