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How to Establish Intensity Ranges with Adam Pulford, CTS Pro Coach | KoopCast Episode 162

Jan 12, 2023
01:16:14

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Episode overview:

Adam Pulford is a Pro Level Coach at CTS and is one of the most sought after mountain bike coaches in the world. He also has served ass the team director for TeamShoAir UCI Professional Factory MTB Team the Twenty16/Twenty20 UCI Professional Women’s Race Team and the Orange Seal Off-Road Team

Episode highlights:

(23:45) Zones are descriptive not prescriptive: avoiding overeager zone prescriptions, instantaneous tests, athlete adaptability

(36:19) Is physiological testing worth it: marginal gains, correlating time to exhaustion between the field and lab tests, physiological testing is best for gauging improvement

(1:07:39) Durability at intensity: making sure zone paces are sustainable to increase volume at intensity, the importance of durability and sustainability in training

Additional resources:

Buy Training Essentials for Ultrarunning on Amazon or Audible

Information on coaching-

www.trainright.com

Koop’s Social Media

Twitter/Instagram- @jasonkoop

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