is the adherence by triathlon coaches to your framework for cycling, at the expense of a similarly-precise way to integrate this into an overall swim/bike/run program, too new school for its own good? i'm not saying it is, i'm, you know, just askin'. maybe there are some coaches who can describe how they integrate all this.[/quote]
Too new school? I will let others judge. I think that it (wko+) allows one to help quantifiy the workload that a triathlete is doing on bike. I look at that and how it effects the overall picture I'm dealing with. Coaching triathletes (any athlete actually) is about integrating the stresses, including life stresses, from their chosen sport(s), managing the workouts so the athlete progresses, etc. Often the feedback from an athlete is as valuable, if not more valuable, then the feedback from a software tool. It's just a tool, to help monitor the athlete, not manage the athlete.


If I have an athlete who is complaining about being tired, I have to look at what they have been doing over the last few weeks, what they just did over the last few days and what else is going on in their life (lack of sleep, more stress then normal, sick kid, new boss, more work at work etc). WKO may show everything is fine, but if the rest of life is falling apart sooner or later something has to give. Last I checked no software program can make those day to day decisions about life.

The software tells me what is taking place athletically or provides part of the picture anyway of what is taking place athletically, the athlete tells me what is taking place in life. For the overwhelming majority of clients, life happens and the coach has to integrate life happenings in how they are doing the day to day training for an athlete.

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Brian Stover USAT LII
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