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Björn Geesmann - Coach of Patrick Lange & Kat Matthews

The Triathlon Hour

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How to Detect Improvements in Running Economy in Training

The improvement on from one test to another does not have an impact on your economy improvement in the last weeks of training because you do not really improve your economy. The only outcome is actual training status or performance status so you get a threshold for example just one value maybe for velocity and heart rate okay fine. I would definitely also spend a lot of time listening to your athletes so getting feedback as if they have a good body feeling and a good body feedback can tell you if they improvedYes or no if they are feeling good at 300 watts at threshold intervals for example yes or no, this is something I would definitely take into account.

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