Hi Stephen, thank you for your videos. Any chance you could up the volume of your recordings? I'm listening at full volume on my laptop and I can barely understand you.
Your videos have been incredible helpful for me to turn theory practice in endurance training. One thing that makes it difficult to translate from a practicality standpoint, is that you often use data from extremely high-performing athletes. But I’m typically working with age group athletes, for example: My sister ran her first marathon yesterday, I helped her with her training plan. She hit “the wall“ around the 20 mile mark. Her personality is highly motivated and will work through extremely difficult situations. But when she got her around 20 miles, her legs started to slow down, despite her trying to push her legs to move faster. Her heart rate actually slow down for the last 6 miles, which extremely frustrated her. it was not the cardiovascular aspect that was limiting her performance, it was the combination of peripheral and central muscular fatigue. It would be interesting to see similar data analysis, but using age group, athletes who are let’s say in the middle half performance wise.
Friendly criticism here. All your videos have low speaking volume. I have to watch them with my volume turned up very high. p.s. I really enjoy the informative content. Thank you for sharing. Cheers.
Hey Dr Seiler, could you do a video on your thoughts on sweet spot training? It happens to fall in line with marathon pace, and it seems like all the rage in cycling training is to build your CTL by doing more frequent moderate intensity training. I have read a lot of the thoughts on some top running coaches like renato canova (a top coach of Kenyan athletes), and he seems to assign a lot more “quality” training to his top marathon guys (the guys running 2:04 and faster)... he has said that this old model of polarized training was why elite runners could not translate their 10k performance to the marathon equivalent (or at least that is how I interpret a lot of his writings and commentary on his elite athletes training logs). Personally your work has transformed my own personal running. Since coming across your work (knock on wood) I have yet to sustain a serious injury in spite of once being a very injury prone athlete. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Do you mean he prescribes threshold or SS training rather than polarised for marathon? I found long term consistent 10k training helped me settle at a pace just under marathon or hm come race day. For me ultimate performance is also dependent on climate. I probably lose 5 minutes off a 1:30 half on a warm day.
Interesting I should come across your comment as I've just been looking at Sweet Spot as espoused by Trainer Road. It seems to fall into Stephen's Z2, i.e. the zone you *don't* want to train in. Lots of time in Z1, intervals of Z3 work; that's Stephen's prescription with a huge amount of evidence behind it. So yeah, I'd also like to hear Stephen's opinion on SS.
@@dan_grey Are you a cyclist or triathlete/runner? I like to listen to the Trainer Road podcast as well, and I know that they seem to have the data to back up sweet spot training improving your threshold. It got me thinking as well. I do think that you could get away with training at sweet spot with cycling due to the low impact, but I can attest that trying to do so running will lead to an injury... just too much intensity.
@@dan_grey Great points and yes I think we would all love to hear Dr. Seiler expound on the sweet spot training approach that TrainerRoad seems to be the biggest champion of promoting. I think the simple answer is that there is a time and place for everything. We are here to not only know what works but know the good, better, best when it comes to endurance training and building a bigger aerobic engine to maximize performance. The arguments for sweet spot training are compelling and seems to be a really good approach to build fitness if one prescribes to a CTL/TSS based model to measure training and fitness. I have certainly found it is the easiest way to continue to drive up your weekly TSS but have never performed as well as my training load would indicate; although, I know that advocates of sweet spot training would argue this is to be expected because in driving up your weekly TSS and CTL you're also building up a tremendous amount of fatigue that would prevent you from fully showcasing your fitness. Yes, we'd love to hear what Dr. Seiler has to say about this!
I was about to give up on this channel, because the volume is inaudible, the auto translate obscene, RUclips could help by creating some app. to autocorrect this common fault, you can always turn down the volume, why should we have to dig out the headphones to be able to hear. There is a lot to be said in favour of the good old VU meter.
I am sorry Stephen but I can't hear you you are extremely quiet I went into a quiet study and wore headphones but the slightest distraction and I miss what you said This topic is of great relevance to me and your talks are so full of good stuff it is very frustrating
Sure, I will try to adjust the sound up some more.
Hi Stephen, thank you for your videos.
Any chance you could up the volume of your recordings?
I'm listening at full volume on my laptop and I can barely understand you.
Also the graphics are a bit too bland and could use some sharpening to make them easier to read.
Your videos have been incredible helpful for me to turn theory practice in endurance training.
One thing that makes it difficult to translate from a practicality standpoint, is that you often use data from extremely high-performing athletes. But I’m typically working with age group athletes, for example:
My sister ran her first marathon yesterday, I helped her with her training plan. She hit “the wall“ around the 20 mile mark.
Her personality is highly motivated and will work through extremely difficult situations. But when she got her around 20 miles, her legs started to slow down, despite her trying to push her legs to move faster. Her heart rate actually slow down for the last 6 miles, which extremely frustrated her. it was not the cardiovascular aspect that was limiting her performance, it was the combination of peripheral and central muscular fatigue.
It would be interesting to see similar data analysis, but using age group, athletes who are let’s say in the middle half performance wise.
Friendly criticism here. All your videos have low speaking volume. I have to watch them with my volume turned up very high. p.s. I really enjoy the informative content. Thank you for sharing. Cheers.
Just found that you have a RUclips channel, going to binge, this was the first one, interesting analysis Dr S
Hey Dr Seiler, could you do a video on your thoughts on sweet spot training? It happens to fall in line with marathon pace, and it seems like all the rage in cycling training is to build your CTL by doing more frequent moderate intensity training.
I have read a lot of the thoughts on some top running coaches like renato canova (a top coach of Kenyan athletes), and he seems to assign a lot more “quality” training to his top marathon guys (the guys running 2:04 and faster)... he has said that this old model of polarized training was why elite runners could not translate their 10k performance to the marathon equivalent (or at least that is how I interpret a lot of his writings and commentary on his elite athletes training logs).
Personally your work has transformed my own personal running. Since coming across your work (knock on wood) I have yet to sustain a serious injury in spite of once being a very injury prone athlete.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Do you mean he prescribes threshold or SS training rather than polarised for marathon? I found long term consistent 10k training helped me settle at a pace just under marathon or hm come race day. For me ultimate performance is also dependent on climate. I probably lose 5 minutes off a 1:30 half on a warm day.
Interesting I should come across your comment as I've just been looking at Sweet Spot as espoused by Trainer Road. It seems to fall into Stephen's Z2, i.e. the zone you *don't* want to train in. Lots of time in Z1, intervals of Z3 work; that's Stephen's prescription with a huge amount of evidence behind it.
So yeah, I'd also like to hear Stephen's opinion on SS.
@@dan_grey Are you a cyclist or triathlete/runner? I like to listen to the Trainer Road podcast as well, and I know that they seem to have the data to back up sweet spot training improving your threshold. It got me thinking as well.
I do think that you could get away with training at sweet spot with cycling due to the low impact, but I can attest that trying to do so running will lead to an injury... just too much intensity.
@@dan_grey Great points and yes I think we would all love to hear Dr. Seiler expound on the sweet spot training approach that TrainerRoad seems to be the biggest champion of promoting. I think the simple answer is that there is a time and place for everything. We are here to not only know what works but know the good, better, best when it comes to endurance training and building a bigger aerobic engine to maximize performance.
The arguments for sweet spot training are compelling and seems to be a really good approach to build fitness if one prescribes to a CTL/TSS based model to measure training and fitness. I have certainly found it is the easiest way to continue to drive up your weekly TSS but have never performed as well as my training load would indicate; although, I know that advocates of sweet spot training would argue this is to be expected because in driving up your weekly TSS and CTL you're also building up a tremendous amount of fatigue that would prevent you from fully showcasing your fitness.
Yes, we'd love to hear what Dr. Seiler has to say about this!
Thanks. Good video. But I can hardly see the numbers on the axes.
Awesome! 🙌
Hi Stephen, thanks for your time and videos. What software or apps do yo use to compare athletes?
Thanks Prof. This is an amazing work!!
thanks 4 this videos !
I was about to give up on this channel, because the volume is inaudible, the auto translate obscene, RUclips could help by creating some app. to autocorrect this common fault, you can always turn down the volume, why should we have to dig out the headphones to be able to hear. There is a lot to be said in favour of the good old VU meter.
I am sorry Stephen but I can't hear you you are extremely quiet I went into a quiet study and wore headphones but the slightest distraction and I miss what you said
This topic is of great relevance to me and your talks are so full of good stuff it is very frustrating
How does hitting the wall cause cell damage?