A research roundup episode, where Dr. Gabriele Gallo (of KnowledgeIsWatt) and myself cover four recent research papers and how they might help us train better and improve our understanding of triathlon and endurance performance

HIGHLIGHTS AND KEY TOPICS: 

  • Do the same training program twice - get different results? (and how Gabriele and I disagree slightly on the conclusions to draw from this study)
  • Strength training is beneficial for cycling performance, but how beneficial is it really? And is it beneficial for everybody? Finally, how should you structure your strength training program to make it so? 
  • A massive review on the impact of different types of endurance training on mitochondrial and capillary growth, and VO2max improvements. 
  • What separates athletes of different performance levels is not how high they can push their threshold as a percentage of VO2max, but how high the VO2max is in the first place. 

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