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ALL THE LATEST IN TRAINING
WITH POWER
New Power Metrics
Masters and Triathlon
New Case Studies
Over 100 New Workouts
ALL NEW IN THE 3RD EDITION
- Learn about the
latest power metrics:
FRC, Pmax, mFTP, Power Duration Curve, and more
- New power tools chapter: Learn how power is measured from each power meter
- Learn the science behind the
latest in power training metrics.
- Two new additional training plans: Masters and Triathlon
- Reveals methods of power duration testing, a new testing method
to pinpoint weaknesses for a variety of short- and long-distance race formats
- Includes training plans to raise your Functional Threshold Power
- Offers power-based workouts tuned to your specific training goals:
Over 100 new workouts
- Shares
new case studies: Masters and Triathlon
- Provides
new guidance for triathletes
on pacing the bike and run
- Over 100
new graphs
- Training and Racing with a Power Meter
is the definitive, comprehensive guide to using a power meter. Armed with the revolutionary techniques from this guide, cyclists and triathletes can achieve lasting improvements for their best performances ever.
Training with Power
Training and Racing with a Power Meter
brings the advanced power-based training techniques of elite cyclists and triathletes to everyone.
A
power meter
can unlock more speed and endurance than any other training tool―for those who understand how to interpret their data. By quantifying exactly how much energy a cyclist expends, power meters lend unprecedented insight into a rider’s abilities and fitness. With the proper baseline data, a cyclist can use a power meter to determine workouts, long-term training, and even race strategy, pacing, and tactics.
Training and Racing with a Power Meter is the pioneering, cutting-edge guide that makes it possible for any rider to exploit the incredible usefulness of any power meter. Coach Hunter Allen and exercise physiologists Drs. Andy Coggan and Stephen McGregor show how to use a power meter to profile your strengths and weaknesses, how to measure fitness and fatigue, how to optimize your daily workouts, how to peak for races, and how to set and adjust your racing strategy while you are racing.
“Training and Racing with a Power Meter is the ultimate guide to training with power. Hunter Allen and Andrew Coggan are, without a doubt, the most knowledgeable people on the planet when it comes to power meters.”
Joe Friel
The Cyclist's Training Bible
“Training and Racing with a Power Meter
is a comprehensive look at the technological and physical aspects of power and fatigue-based testing. It also includes coaching and training sessions to target weaknesses highlighted by the data. It’s essential reading.”
BikeRadar.com
“Training and Racing with a Power Meter presents useful information on how to delve deeper into the numbers and recognize patterns that surface over a season. Every triathlete can benefit from the book’s in-depth info and detailed graphs showing the numbers you need to kill the competition.”
Triathlete Magazine
About the Authors
Hunter Allen
is one of the world’s leading experts in training with power meters. He is a USA Cycling Level 1 Coach, CEO of Peaks Coaching Group, and a former professional cyclist with the Navigators Team. He has been coaching endurance athletes of varied experience levels since 1995, and his athletes have achieved more than 1,000 victories and numerous national and world championship titles and medals. Allen has analyzed thousands of power-meter files. His efforts to help athletes and coaches share training information lead to the development of industry-standard TrainingPeaks and WKO+ software. Allen has been teaching USA Cycling power meter certification courses since 2005.
Andrew R. Coggan, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized exercise physiologist. He has published numerous scientific articles on a diverse range of topics, including the effects of carbohydrates on cycling performance, the physiological adaptations to endurance training, and the effects of aging on muscle metabolism during exercise. A national-caliber masters cyclist and time trial record holder, Dr. Coggan is also widely recognized as one of the leading experts on the physiological implications of training with power. He is the originator of 'normalized power,' 'TSS,' power profiling, quadrant analysis, and the Performance Manager concepts. In 2006, he was honored for these applied sports science efforts with USA Cycling’s Sport Science Award and by being named as one of three Finalists for the US Olympic Committee’s Doc Counsilman Award.
Stephen McGregor, Ph.D., is an exercise physiologist and USA Cycling instructor. He is Director of the Applied Physiology Lab at Eastern Michigan University and a USA Cycling instructor who teaches coaches about physiology, general training, and training with a power meter. McGregor also coaches for Peaks Coaching Group. His own experience, first as an elite cyclist and more recently as a masters-level athlete, helps him keep the science and data analysis grounded in the day-to-day concerns of training and racing.
