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Training and Racing with a Power Meter: Third Edition 3rd Edition, Kindle Edition
A power meter can unlock more speed and endurance than any other training tool—but only if you understand the data. This new third edition of Training and Racing with a Power Meter updates the comprehensive guide so that any rider can exploit the incredible usefulness of any power meter.
Pioneering cycling coach Hunter Allen and exercise physiologists Dr. Andy Coggan and Stephen McGregor show how to use a power meter to find your baseline power data, profile your strengths and weaknesses, measure fitness and fatigue, optimize your daily workouts, peak for races, and set and adjust your racing strategy during a race.
This third edition includes:
- All-new power metrics: FRC, Pmax, mFTP, Power Duration Curve, and more
- Two new power-based training plans for masters cyclists and triathletes
- New training plans to raise Functional Threshold Power
- Over 100 new power-based workouts
- New guidance for triathletes on pacing the bike and run
- New case studies on master cyclists and triathletes
- Methods to test power duration and pinpoint weaknesses in a variety of race distances
- 100 newly illustrated charts
Training and Racing with a Power Meter, 3rd Ed. is the definitive, comprehensive guide to using a power meter. Armed with the revolutionary techniques from this guide, cyclists and triathletes can achieve lasting improvements for their best performances ever.
- ISBN-13978-1937715939
- Edition3rd
- PublisherVeloPress
- Publication dateApril 17, 2019
- LanguageEnglish
- File size60747 KB
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“Training and Racing with a Power Meter is a comprehensive look at the technological and physical aspects of power and fatigue-based testing. It also includes coaching and training sessions to target weaknesses highlighted by the data. It’s essential reading.” -- BikeRadar.com
“Training and Racing with a Power Meter presents useful information on how to delve deeper into the numbers and recognize patterns that surface over a season. Every triathlete can benefit from the book’s in-depth info and detailed graphs showing the numbers you need to kill the competition.” -- Triathlete magazine
“Training and Racing with a Power Meter has enough scientific detail and analysis to satisfy even the most demanding numbers junkie while remaining readable and useful to even the casual power enthusiast.” -- Canadian Cycling magazine
“By far the best instruction manual I’ve seen is Training and Racing with a Power Meter.” -- Stephen Cheung, PhD, PezCyclingNews.com
“Training and Racing with a Power Meter is the most logically structured and comprehensive manual in print on how a rider can get maximum performance improvement from this device.” -- Active.com
From the Back Cover
YOUR POWER METER IS THE ROAD MAP TO FASTER RIDING
From the amateur to pro ranks, cyclists and triathletes use power meters to gain speed and endurance. Training & Racing with a Power Meter unlocks the treasure trove of data at your fingertips to help you understand and redefine your performance on the bike.
Get the latest advances in power analysis from the world’s leading experts:
· Optimize your training levels with a new, more individualized method
· More accurately target intervals based on your unique physiology
· Use the Power Duration Curve to reveal your functional reserve capacity, stamina, and time to exhaustion
· Improve efficiency by balancing power and technique throughout the pedal stroke with left/right power data
See how your Power Profile stacks up against the different types of cyclists―all-rounders, time trialists, climbers, sprinters, and pursuiters. With hundreds of power charts from men and women of a wide range of ages and ability, you will discover exactly what kind of training you need to become a better cyclist.
After identifying your Power Profile, you will be able to develop a customized, power-based training plan that plays to your strengths. You can draw from case studies, detailed plans, and over 100 workouts designed to achieve a variety of goals―threshold improvement, peak performance, half-Ironman racing, and gran fondo riding. You will also find guidance on training with power to meet the specific demands of cyclocross, track, and ultra-endurance events.
Training & Racing with a Power Meter is packed with expertise and colorful visuals that will give you the skills you need to crack the code for converting power data into speed.
HUNTER ALLEN is an elite-level cycling coach, former professional cyclist, USA Cycling instructor, and owner of the Peaks Coaching Group. ANDREW COGGAN, PhD, is an exercise physiologist and a leading expert on power-meter data and application, responsible for developing many of the key metrics. STEPHEN MCGREGOR, PhD, is an exercise physiologist at Eastern Michigan University, USA Cycling instructor, and coach for Peaks Coaching Group.
About the Author
Andrew R. Coggan, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized exercise physiologist. Formerly a national-caliber masters cyclist and time trial record holder, Andrew is also widely recognized as one of the leading experts on the use of power meters in training. Many of the concepts discussed in Training and Racing with a Power Meter and featured in WKO4 and other desktop or online software are the result of Andrew’s work with cyclists and coaches. He is the originator of the normalized power, TSS, power profiling, quadrant analysis, and the Performance Manager concepts. As a result of his contributions, in 2006 he was honored by USA Cycling with their Sport Science Award and named a Finalist for the US Olympic Committee’s Doc Counsilman Award. He is an Associate Professor in Kinesiology and Cellular and Integrative Physiology at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. He has published numerous scientific articles on a diverse range of topics, including the physiological adaptations to endurance training and the effects of aging on muscle metabolism during exercise. Most recently, his research has focused upon the effects of dietary nitrate on muscle contractile function. Andrew Coggan earned his PhD in exercise physiology from the University of Texas and an MS in human bioenergetics from Ball State University. He lives in Brownsburg, Indiana, with his wife, Angela (a former elite national champion track cyclist), and children, Madeleine and Gavin.
Stephen J. McGregor, PhD, is a pioneer in the development of training concepts and software designed to maximize the benefits of training with technology. Most notably, Stephen created the normalized graded pace (NGP) algorithm and the run training stress score (rTSS), specifically designed for running. He has also developed the Dynamic Training Load (DTL) system for quantifying training load in dynamic team sports. Stephen is the director of the Applied Physiology Laboratory at Eastern Michigan University and has published and presented numerous research papers examining muscle injury, performance modeling, running physiology, and performance quantification using technology. He earned a doctorate in exercise physiology and has served on the science and education faculty for USA Cycling since 2005 where he presents Power and Elite Level 1 Coaching certification clinics. A former intercollegiate soccer player, triathlete, and elite competitive cyclist, Stephen has coached endurance athletes for almost 25 years and serves as a coach/consultant to numerous international and Olympic-caliber cyclists and runners. In 2016 he was the recipient of the Order of Ikkos as the coach of an Olympic medalist in cycling.
Product details
- ASIN : B07QR1C4RP
- Publisher : VeloPress; 3rd edition (April 17, 2019)
- Publication date : April 17, 2019
- Language : English
- File size : 60747 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 583 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #140,747 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2 in Cycling (Kindle Store)
- #5 in Triathlons (Kindle Store)
- #27 in Triathlons (Books)
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About the author
Legendary Cycling Coach, Co-Author of “Training & Racing with a Power Meter”, Co – Developer of Training Peaks WKO Software and Founder of Peaks Coaching Group.
Widely known as one of the top experts in the world in coaching endurance athletes using power meters, Hunter Allen’s goal has always been to teach athletes how to maximize their training and racing potential through professional analysis of their power data. This goes hand in hand with his power meter philosophy that a power meter is a tool to help discover an athlete’s true ‘strengths and weakness’, quantitatively assess training improvements, and refine and maximize the focus of their training. “Power Training can add a whole new dimension to your cycling. By using a power meter, you literally have a ‘second by second’ training diary, which allows me as a coach to not only see exactly what you are doing on your rides, but also to plan training using the ‘dose’ and ‘response’ method” , Allen states. Hunter’s power training method has built success at all levels of cycling and endurance sports, training such well known professional & Olympic athletes such as Jeremiah Bishop (Volkswagen-Trek), 2008 US National Champion Mountain Biker, Daniel Lloyd (CerveloTest Team), 2008 Vuelta de Extremadura, Sue Haywood, 2007 World Mountain Bike 24 Champion, Dan Fleeman (CerveloTest Team), 2008 Winner of Tour of Pyrnees and with the 2008 USA Olympic BMX Team.
Hunter is himself a former professional cyclist for Team Navigators and has raced for over 17 years in Europe, South America, U.S. and Canada and has over 40 career victories to his credit. Considered a great all-rounder, he was able to learn a wide variety of race tactics and skill necessary to succeed at the professional level.
Since retiring, Allen has become a USAC Elite Level Cycling Coach and Certified Nutritional Consultant and is a featured presenter for many USA Cycling Seminars. In 1996, he founded The Peaks Coaching Group focused on developed leading edge methods of efficient power training. For the past 10 years, Peaks has been a leader in the industry in the field of power training for endurance cyclist. This unique opportunity has given Hunter the ability to review thousands of power files and racer profiles and develop an “artful science” of power training and coaching. During this time period, he also co-developed Training Peaks WKO+ software and co-authored the book, “Training and Racing with a Power Meter” with Dr. Andrew R. Coggan.
As a coach, he makes sure to look at an athlete’s as a whole person and excels at designing custom programs design to maximize potential. “I believe we are human beings working closely with other human beings , and it’s important that as a coach, I work hard to find your strengths, weaknesses and help you improve your skills then develop a realistic plan that works for life.” He continues, “It’s important that a coach learn as much as he can about you as an athlete and as a person in order to better develop their success plan. I have coached over 400 athletes and I learn something new from each one.”
Hunter holds a B.A. in Economics from Randolph-Macon and lives with family in Bedford, Va with his “super-wife” Kate and three growing children; Thomas, Jack & Susannah. He is also a Certified Yoga and Tai Chi instructor, Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Coach for the Leukemia Society. In his spare time, he enjoys driving and tinkering with fast cars, hunting, and of course cycling!
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The book makes you understand, what zone training is and how to perform it with the help of your powermeter. The only thing it lacks is some deeper analysis of race biking, to my taste, there's a bit much on moutain biking, but that's not bad either.
DO NOT BUY A POWER METER WITHOUT THIS BOOK!
If you are wondering if this book will be worth your while, the answer is yes. Even if you don't have a power meter, but instead train the old fashioned way, the workouts explained, and the principles can be applied to improve your performance. Highly recommended. The workouts alone are worth the price.
This is more geared for endurance athletes--I wish that it had more for track sprinters. It turns out that's really difficult training data to find. There is a bit here, but not nearly enough for what I would like.
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Reviewed in Spain on August 15, 2021