These were excellent.

yes. they have been. this has been a master class on the state of the art in high performance coaching. this is a lifting of the veil, so you see who's coaching the best of the best.

but i sense this is going to get very interesting, maybe with the next installment, because (i truly don't know) my instinct tells me that a lot of the terms of art that have quantified and regulated your work, and that have prescribed your regimes, are going to perhaps be displaced by next-generation metrics. if so, this is going to cause some upheaval, because so much of the industry is tied to existing metrics.

for example, HR was largely displaced by power, and derivates of power, a generation ago. i think we may be at the point where another change may be happening. not that power becomes irrelevant. i don't know what's coming. but i think sebastian might be angling toward something. we'll see.

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Dan Empfield
aka Slowman

I like to watch these videos and they are very informative of what physiological processes are at play when running or cycling for x hours at y speed. But all in all, unless you are being coached at a high level and subscribe to frequent testing, I am not sure that this knowledge about physiology has any meaningful impact to my training. As an average Joe athlete I am training by far not structured enough that I could tell what training regimen would lead to what kind of metabolic adaptations. All I can do is run a 5k tt once in a while and compare my times and do a FTP test....none of which lets me guess my metabolic profile.

i can't be sure, but i sense that at a certain the ramifications may become more clear for the end user. or not. i don't know.

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Dan Empfield
aka Slowman

The broad applicability of these concepts largely depend on the knowledge of your metabolic profile and only when these profiles are known can the training be prescribed. The power performance decoder will probably become a great tool but currently one run still costs like 200 EUR. Once the price comes down to like 100 I would be willing to test every few month... But for highly ambitious athletes it will likely be different.