Breakaway
Jonathan MelvilleI'm Jonathan Melville and here I discuss how to optimse training programmes for endurance athletes.
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The biggest mistakes time-crunched athletes make.
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Consistency matters more than short-term blocks — athletes who repeatedly stop and restart training often arrive at events with a similar long-term training load year after year, limiting year-on-year progress.
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The work done...
Your watts per kilo might be a useless metric
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W/kg alone doesn’t predict race performance — a 2022 study of 30 professional under-23 cyclists found no significant correlation between riders’ w/kg and their best single-day race results.
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Absolute power matters — a rider’s...
Your Training Zones are Holding you Back
Training zones are a useful tool for managing, planning and tracking training. However, it seems we have forgotten what training zones really are and what they are actually based on.
If you were to Google training zones, you would get wha...
Strength training and injury prevention (myth?)
Most runners will get an injury or have to deal with small niggles consistently (19-58% of marathon runners experience training-related injuries). In an attempt to counter these injuries, one of the things runners will always say is, ‘I wan...
Is durability trainable (learn the secrets of the research)?
Just a quick question from me.
The what:
As many of you may be aware, there are three main determinants of endurance performance. These are VO2max (our maximal oxygen consumption capacity), economy (how much energy we need/use for a given...
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