The science of training load with Louis Passfield, PhD | EP#341
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How Did We Get Here?
Trimp is still with usin that you will find even some of the online am sights, wil ll calculate your trimps for you and report them for you. We also see it now manifest os, things like acute and chronic training loads, a metric. And then another one that i haven't mentioned that comes up quite a bit as well as the a normalized power score as well. So these kinds of mectrics that that quantify how much training we've done is kind of where we find ourselves to day.
Louis Passfield, PhD, is an adjunct professor at the University of Calgary and also holds a professorship at the University of Kent. In addition to his academic work, Louis has been involved with British Cycling for several Olympic cycles, and worked with athletes and practitioners in high-performance sports. Much of his recent academic work has been centred around the quantification of training load, which is the topic of today's interview.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT:
-Training Load overview: what is it, why do we want to measure it, and a brief history of training load metrics
-The limitations and validity concerns of currently available training load metrics
-Redefining the gold standard for quantifying training load
-Suggestions for future work on coming up with valid and useful training load metrics
-Advice for athletes, coaches and practitioners on use of training load metrics today
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LINKS AND RESOURCES:
- Louis profile on Twitter and Research Gate and his email (right click and select "Copy email address")
- Validity of the Training-Load Concept - Passfield et al. 2022
- Prior exercise impairs subsequent performance in an intensity- and duration-dependent manner - Fullerton et al. 2021
- Cycling Performance and Training Load: Effects of Intensity and Duration - Kesisoglou et al. 2020
- Continuous Versus Intermittent Running: Acute Performance Decrement and Training Load - Kesisoglou et al. 2021
- Metabolic and performance‐related consequences of exercising at and slightly above MLSS - Iannetta et al. 2018
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