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Training and Racing with a Power Meter 3rd edition

By Hunter Allen, Andrew Coggan & Stephen McGregor

Training and Racing with a Power Meter 3rd edition

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Training and Racing with a Power Meter brings the advanced power-based training techniques of elite cyclists and triathletes to everyone.

A power meter can unlock more speed and endurance than any other training tool—but only if you understand the data. This new third edition of Training and Racing with a Power Meter updates the comprehensive guide so that any rider can exploit the incredible usefulness of any power meter.

Pioneering cycling coach Hunter Allen and exercise physiologists Dr. Andy Coggan and Stephen McGregor show how to use a power meter to find your baseline power data, profile your strengths and weaknesses, measure fitness and fatigue, optimize your daily workouts, peak for races, and set and adjust your racing strategy during a race.

This third edition includes: 
  • All-new power metrics: FRC, Pmax, mFTP, Power Duration Curve, and more
  • Two new power-based training plans for masters cyclists and triathletes
  • New training plans to raise Functional Threshold Power
  • Over 100 new power-based workouts
  • New guidance for triathletes on pacing the bike and run
  • New case studies on master cyclists and triathletes
  • Methods to test power duration and pinpoint weaknesses in a variety of race distances
  • 100 newly illustrated charts

Training and Racing with a Power Meter, 3rd Ed. is the definitive, comprehensive guide to using a power meter. Armed with the revolutionary techniques from this guide, cyclists and triathletes can achieve lasting improvements for their best performances ever.

Hunter Allen, Andrew Coggan & Stephen McGregor

Hunter Allen is a world-renowned cycling coach and author of the groundbreaking book Training

and Competing with a Continuous Glucose Monitor. He is the coauthor of the watershed and

bestselling book Training and Racing with a Power Meter, which has been translated into 12

languages. He has also coauthored two other books, Cutting-Edge Cycling and Triathlon:

Training with Power.

Widely known as one of the top experts in the world in coaching endurance athletes using

power meters, Hunter has been instrumental in developing and spreading the power training

principles, traveling to over 20 countries and teaching thousands of cycling coaches and riders.

Hunter has a passion for tech wearables and a unique ability to quickly learn and clearly

communicate the steps for using them effectively to others. A former professional cyclist on the

Navigators Team, Hunter has been coaching endurance athletes since 1995, and his athletes

have achieved more than 2,000 victories, numerous national and world championship titles, and

Olympic medals.

Ever on the leading edge of tech for athletics, he is a sought-after consultant for many

endurance-oriented tech companies and has worked with numerous companies to develop

products for the cycling world. Hunter is the co-developer of TrainingPeaks WKO software; is

the cofounder of TrainingPeaks Software; and is the founder and current owner of Peaks

Coaching Group.

Hunter holds a BA in economics from Randolph-Macon College and lives in Bedford, Virginia.

He has three young adult children, Thomas, Jack, and Susannah. In his spare time, he enjoys

driving, racing, tinkering with fast cars and motorcycles, and, of course, cycling around the

world!

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