HUB Life - Triathlon and Endurance Lifestyle
Dr. Marion "Moose" Herring is an orthopedic sports medicine physician with Dr. Rob Green Sports Chiropractor. We are lifetime endurance athletes.We are trier of most fads.We are maker of many mistakes.We are husbands, fathers, sports med docs, and athletes just trying to be the best us.
HUB Life - Triathlon and Endurance Lifestyle
#8 All Things Bike Power. And DOPERS SUCK!
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Dr. Marion Herring and Dr. Rob Green
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Episode 8
In this episode, Dr. Herring and Dr. Green discuss the benefits of training and racing with a power meter. They also discuss Collin Chartier recent positive test for EPO and doping in triathlon - Dopers Suck.
Advantages:
- Wattage is a pure measure of work.
- Coupling your power with your heart rate and perceived exertion
- Can expose strengths and weaknesses at different timed efforts.
- Helps structure your training program.
- Ability to track fitness and communicated with your coach
- Post race or session analysis. Good and bad.
- Gather training and racing power data to improve your performance
- Help training for specific goals and distances.
- Race Pacing for even efforts.
Disadvantages:
- FTP can be variable and fluctating
- Different devices can have different FTPs.
- Environmnental conditions can affect your FTP. Ie. very hot day, your ftp is lower.