Polarized vs Pyramidal Training with Luca Filipas PhD (Jan 2022) ⎮ Koopcast Episode 154

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Episode overview:

Luca Filipas a PhD researcher and coach out of Milan, Italy. Re-Release of episode 113 from January 2022.

Episode highlights:

(27:17) Why pyramidal to polarized athletes were most successful: peaking for races, adaptations from high intensity

(33:57) Koop on peaking for longer distance events: least specific to most specific training architecture

(41:34) Takeaways: race specificity, modulating intensity

Additional resources:

You can find Luca’s work here- https://www.lucafilipas.com/

Luca on Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/lucafilipas 

Luca on Twitter- https://twitter.com/LucaFilipas

Paper discussed- Effects of 16 weeks of pyramidal and polarized training intensity distributions in well-trained endurance runners

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