Free Epub The Power Meter Handbook: A User's Guide for Cyclists and Triathletes

The Power Meter Handbook: A User's Guide for Cyclists and Triathletes

Author: Joe Friel | Language: English | ISBN: B009HQ0TKO | Format: EPUB

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In The Power Meter Handbook, Joe Friel offers cyclists and triathletes a simple user’s guide to using a power meter for big performance gains.

In simple language, the most trusted coach in endurance sports makes understanding a power meter easy, no advanced degrees or tech savvy required.

Cyclists and triathletes will master the basics to reveal how powerful they are. Focusing on their most important data, they’ll discover hidden power, refine their pacing, and find out how many matches they can burn on any given day.

Once they understand the fundamentals, Friel will show how to apply his proven training approach to gain big performance in road races, time trials, triathlons, and century rides.

With The Power Meter Handbook, riders will:

• Precisely match their training to their race season
• Push their limits step by step
• Track fitness changes—reliably and accurately
• Peak predictably for key events
• Vastly improve training efficiency

  Power meters aren’t just for the pros or racers anymore. Now The Power Meter Handbook makes it easy for any cyclist or triathlete to find new speed with cycling’s most advanced gear.

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  • File Size: 2512 KB
  • Print Length: 240 pages
  • Publisher: VeloPress (September 1, 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
    
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B009HQ0TKO
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  It's hard to read anything on power training without comparing it to Training and Racing with a Power Meter by Hunter Allen and Andy Coggan. That book gives a very detailed and technical description of training with a power meter. The problem for those new to using a power meter is that it's detailed and technical.
  
  Friel's new book is geared more towards those who are considering getting a power meter or just bought one and want to know how it is different from training with a heart monitor. I'd say it does that pretty well.
  
  There are a few problems though. There's almost nothing new in the book at all. If you've read Friel's blog and the articles on TrainingPeaks, you won't find new information here.
  
  The biggest problem is that he defined Intensity Factor wrong. IF, as seen in all the training software out there, is (Normalized Power/Functional Threshold Power). Friel instead defines IF as (Average Power/Functional Threshold Power). Those two numbers can vary quite a bit. After seeing that mistake, it had me questioning every table and calculation based on IF for the rest of the book. <corrected my own mistake from earlier>
  
  He proposes several rules that don't make sense. For example, the 5% rule that says you can double any duration and maintain 5% less power. It sounds nice, but it doesn't work for most durations for all athletes. For example, a sprinter with a 600 watt 1-minute power probably can't maintain 570 watts for 2 minutes unless we're talking about world-champion level fatigue resistance. Even a longer duration like 300 watts at 5 minutes, holding 290 watts at 10 minutes would be very unlikely.

  Here is the review I posted on Duathlon.com:
  [...]
  
  Joe Friel's The Power Meter Handbook may be the single best available resource on training with power for most cyclists and triathletes. Released in late 2012, Friel does a good job of making sense of a topic that is confusing to many. Training & Racing With a Power Meter, released in 2010, is also an excellent book on the same topic, but it is more technical and might be an easier read for more advanced users of power meters.
  
  Riding with a power meter is similar to using a heart rate meter in that the primary display is a single number (watts of power), except power data is significantly more useful if you know what you are doing. Using a power meter is so important that Joe won't coach an athlete who doesn't use one.
  
  Before you pick up the book know that you won't master a power meter overnight or in a week. You must familiarize yourself with the concepts, analyze workouts within power meter software, and compare workouts over time. No single concept of power meter use is difficult, but experience is necessary. If you like looking at numbers and comparing workouts, this will be fun. If this has no appeal to you then hire a good coach to do the work for you.
  
  To get full benefit from your power meter you must test often (every 4-6 weeks) and download ALL of your workouts into your training software.
  
  Newer athletes, and those not looking for serious performance, can get most of the book's benefit by reading to page 125 (book length is 209 pages). More advanced athletes and coaches will want to read beyond, and for those familiar with power but looking for deeper information, this is where the book shines.

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