This week's episode is a deep dive into training, David and Olav go into the details of the training process. This follows on from the fundamentals of the Norwegian system, planning and racing.

(00:00) Introduction

(00:51) How Should you Apportion Training Time?

(03:50) How Should an Age Groupers with Balanced Disciplines of the Triathlon Apportion Training Volume in a Week?

(09:57) How do you Decide Whether to Work on Your Strengths or Weaknesses?

(17:50) Volume is Multidimensional

(21:25) Power Law

(24:18) How do you Apportion Intensity and Volume Between Disciplines?

(26:00) The Problem with Training Zones

(28:33) Pyramidal vs Polarized Models

(33:15) Differences Between Professionals and Age Groupers in Training Intensity Distribution

(33:51) Double Threshold Training

(36:14) Distributing Volume and Intensity in a Week

(46:12) How to Adjust Training When not Recovering

(50:05) RPE and lack of a second dimension in it

(61:46) Intensity Control

(65:40) Intensity Control in Swimming

(68:55) Key, Development and Maintenance Sessions

(82:54) How do we Build a Microcycle?

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Introduction by Santara Studios

Produced and Edited by David Lipman

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