This week's episode is a deep dive into training, David and Olav go into the details of the training process. This follows on from the fundamentals of the Norwegian system, planning and racing.

(00:00) Introduction
(00:51) How Should you Apportion Training Time? 
(03:50) How Should an Age Groupers with Balanced Disciplines of the Triathlon Apportion Training Volume in a Week?
(09:57) How do you Decide Whether to Work on Your Strengths or Weaknesses?
(17:50) Volume is Multidimensional 
(21:25) Power Law
(24:18) How do you Apportion Intensity and Volume Between Disciplines? 
(26:00) The Problem with Training Zones 
(28:33) Pyramidal vs Polarized Models
(33:15) Differences Between Professionals and Age Groupers in Training Intensity Distribution 
(33:51) Double Threshold Training
(36:14) Distributing Volume and Intensity in a Week
(46:12) How to Adjust Training When not Recovering 
(50:05) RPE and lack of a second dimension in it 
(61:46) Intensity Control
(65:40) Intensity Control in Swimming 
(68:55) Key, Development and Maintenance Sessions 
(82:54) How do we Build a Microcycle? 

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Graphic Design by Georgia Humphreys
Introduction by Santara Studios
Produced and Edited by David Lipman