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Comment on Open-Water Warm-Up (Pre-Race) by Elevating Your Swim Performance | Guppiesworld

Elevating Your Swim Performance | Guppiesworld — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:01:01 +0000

[...] Perform your race day warm-up [...]

Comment on What Is Intensity Factor? by Elevating Your Swim Performance | Guppiesworld

Elevating Your Swim Performance | Guppiesworld — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:53:22 +0000

[...] always possible. The majority of my open water swims are to work on my sitting, not to do high intensity workouts. Nevertheless, here are the [...]

Comment on What Is Intensity Factor? by WTF Is A Performance Management Chart? | Guppiesworld

WTF Is A Performance Management Chart? | Guppiesworld — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:08:00 +0000

[...] Intensity Factor (IF). This topic was covered in a previous post (click link). Removing IF from the graph is an option, which I normally do. Given the scale of the other numbers, IF doesn’t normally fit in well. [...]

Comment on Annual Training Plan Part #6: Assessing Your Fitness Bike Portion by What Is Training Stress Score (TSS)? | Guppiesworld

What Is Training Stress Score (TSS)? | Guppiesworld — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:10:58 +0000

[...] in seconds, ‘W’ is Normalized Power in watts, ‘IF’ is Intensity Factor, ‘FTP’ is functional threshold power, and ‘3600’ is for the number of seconds in 1 [...]

Comment on What Is Efficiency Factor and Decoupling? by Gloria Liu

Gloria Liu — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:46:15 +0000

Thanks for the TrainingPeaks mention! We’re all about geeking out

Comment on What Is Normalized Power? by What Is Training Stress Score (TSS)? | Guppiesworld

What Is Training Stress Score (TSS)? | Guppiesworld — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:44:31 +0000

[...] is duration in seconds, ‘W’ is Normalized Power in watts, ‘IF’ is Intensity Factor, ‘FTP’ is functional threshold power, and ‘3600’ is [...]

Comment on What Is Normalized Power? by What Is Efficiency Factor and Decoupling? | Guppiesworld

What Is Efficiency Factor and Decoupling? | Guppiesworld — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:31:56 +0000

[...] calculate EF, find your normalized power (or normalized pace) and divide that by your average hear rate for the workout. With this ratio, [...]

Comment on What Is Intensity Factor? by What Is Training Stress Score (TSS)? | Guppiesworld

What Is Training Stress Score (TSS)? | Guppiesworld — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:20:56 +0000

[...] you want to do that? The most important reason is to prevent overtraining. As you increase your intensity, the volume must come down (and vice-versa). TSS quantifies this workload so you know when it’s [...]

Comment on What Is Normalized Power? by What Is Intensity Factor? | Guppiesworld

What Is Intensity Factor? | Guppiesworld — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:52:01 +0000

[...] Is Intensity Factor? December 24, 2011By GuppieNormalized Power was covered in the previous post and it is a better measurement of intensity when compared to [...]

Comment on Quadrant Analysis and scatter graph by Annual Training Plan Part #6: Assessing Your Fitness Bike Portion | Guppiesworld

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:07:35 +0000

[...] second photo is the quadrant analysis. The blue dots are the 20 minute time trial. This shows 42% of my time in quad 2, which is high [...]