From Doctor to Sports Scientist

In this episode of the FasCat Coaching podcast, Coach Frank is joined by Dr. Philip Skiba. Dr. Phil has a rare quadruple threat pedigree in that he is a medical doctor as well as a Ph.D. in exercise physiology, and has 20+ years of coaching experience including coaching Olympians and World Class Endurance athletes. Perhaps best of all, Phil has deep domain expertise in power-based training methodologies and often refers to himself as an algorithmic human performance engineer.    Dr. Phil and I have been working on a new sports science technology that aggregates your power data with your sleep and HRV data plus our new power-based training stress metric, OTS. More on that later on in the podcast but first let’s do our ROTW and get to know Phil.    What we discuss:  

• Who is Dr. Phil and what does he do?
• Dr. Phil’s perspective on the polarized v pyramidal debate
• W’ and the battery?
• Is there a real-time W’ application for athletes to use on their bike computers during training and races? 
• Coach Frank and Dr Phil’s work together on Optimized Training Stress (OTS) 
• How does OTS work with fatigue and with carbohydrate intake? 
• Using OTS with sleep and wearable data to help athletes and coaches and sports scientists better manage training
• Stress-recovery balance

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