Is Your Training Plan Crap? Here's how to tell, with Sweatscience columnist Alex Hutchinson, PhD

// Topics Covered In This Episode:
00:00 - Intro
05:52 - What is "training quality"?
09:02 - The role of device data in defining training quality
12:39 - How to adjust training on the fly, during workouts?
18:56 - Indicators of training quality
21:11 - The role of iteration and reflection on personalizing training for you
24:46 - How do you know if your training plan is crap?
29:24 - Four indicators your training plan isn't working
// LINKS
Twitter(X): / sweatscience
Website: sweatscience.com/
Resources:
- Alex’s Article on Outside: What Makes Training High-Quality-or Not?: www.outsideonline.com/health/...
- Haugen et al: Training Quality-What Is It and How Can We Improve It? doi.org/10.1123/ijspp.2022-0484
// GUEST
Alex Hutchinson is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist and Outside’s Sweat Science columnist, covering the latest research on endurance and outdoor sports. His most recent book is the New York Times bestseller Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance. Before becoming a journalist, he completed a PhD in physics at the University of Cambridge and worked as a researcher in the National Security Agency’s Quantum Computing group. He also competed for the Canadian national team in track, cross-country, road, and mountain running. He lives (and runs) in Toronto.
// HOST
Adam Pulford has been a CTS Coach for more than 14 years and holds a B.S. in Exercise Physiology. He's participated in and coached hundreds of athletes for endurance events all around the world.
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