Tag: Training Peaks

Uploading metrics Into TrainingPeaks

To give your coach a greater insight into your fatigue levels and to assist to monitor your recovery, loading daily metrics such as Resting HR, HRV, Sleep quality and quantity into TrainingPeaks can be very valuable. Especially when things don’t go smoothly in your training, having this data to further analyse can help shed light on the situation.

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Tuesday Training Plan: Functional Threshold Power (FTP) CYCLING Training Plan (Intermediate 6-week Plan – Start Any Monday

As you work your way through this training programme you’ll build your Functional Threshold Power (FTP). With regular FTP tests every 4 weeks you’ll be able to measure and see your progress.
Designed for Intermediate cyclists and triathletes who need a short sharp boost to thier training over 6 weeks. This plan will lift your FTP qwikly over the next 6 weeks.

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Giving the Coach the Finger

I want my athletes to give me the finger, and often. Actually I look for it in about 80% of their workouts. And I encourage it. I’ve been describing it like this to myself for a few years. The idea of this article has also been floating around my head for just as long. I just haven’t verbalised it to anyone….so excuse me if this seems a bit of a weird context 😃

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Lisa’s Journey, Week 41: Is The Grass Greener On The Other Side…?

I promised myself I’d have a better week this week. I’d really get stuck in and make my ‘Training Peaks (TP) pie graph nice and green. Turn of events is seeming like this may not happen. I try not to let it get to me, but it is super frustrating, especially when you know you have an event coming up, but sometimes that’s just life.

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Ali’s Adventure – Balancing The Parent Thingy

I have my two amazing daughters 50/50 with their dad and it’s hard. I miss them.  They truly are my everything. I enjoy being a mum more than anything in this world and it’s the thing I am most proud of accomplishing in my entire life. When I was first thrown into this situation, it was very trying.  The weeks without them seemed to take forever to go by. As time has gone on, I now look at the weeks without them as the weeks I can go ‘big’ on training.

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