Louis Passfield
@trainalytics
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Professor and sports scientist. Training, sports performance, analytics. Director of Training Analytics Ltd. (He/him)
Calgary, Alberta
Joined April 2014
I fell off my bike in August. I'm starting a vlog of my training as I try to get fit again, starting with how unfit am I?.
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Vlog 6: Can I progress from 10-min to 100-min sessions, .improvising as I go?.
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Are two weeks long enough to see any progress in fitness from my training?.
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As discussed on @gcntweet this week with @si_richardson, here I am riding for an hour at my predicted FTP.
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Of course, time to exhaustion itself has a high variability, so it would be interesting to see this factored it too.
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Time to exhaustion at FTP varies according to performance level, with pro's lasting 16 min (45%) longer than recreational cyclists on average.
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If you could only pick one study about training and the training process to discuss which would you choose? I'd pick, Hickson et al. (1977). But I'm curious about your suggestions?.
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Eight subjects exercised for 40 min/day, 6 days/wk for 10 wk. For 3 days/wk they performed six 5-min intervals of bicycling on an ergometer against a resistance that elicited VO2 max, separated by...
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Great insights into the debated role of carbohydrate availability in this study and nicely summarised by @sweatscience
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New data shows that, unlike a car, you can’t perform well with a half-full fuel tank
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Training Load: Differentiating Training Volume and Training Dose in: International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance - Ahead of print
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Training Load: Differentiating Training Volume and Training Dose. Thanks to our colleagues for generating this discussion on Training Load. Here’s our further thoughts.
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RT @JSportsSci: 👩🎓Passionate about Sports Performance?. ⏰ Don't wait to apply to be Associate Editor for @JSportsSci . 🔔The deadline is Ju….
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My friend Martin Wright is fundraising for Dorothy House. He is spending his final days raising money for this charity. If you’d like to help him check out his @JustGiving page.Thank you! #JustGiving
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Help Martin Wright raise money to support Dorothy House
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Oh I was going to say that - how about we share the Comté but I get the full fat version?.
@kinesiologui The one who takes the photo ? 🤣.
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Thank you for inviting me and actually encouraging me to talk about training load. 😀.
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Congratulations Tony! This is well deserved. It’s been an absolute pleasure to share this journey with you. Thanks also to your examiner @grantabt.
I am really pleased to announce that I have passed my Viva exam yesterday. A constructive discussion with @grantabt and @ProfJDickinson who raised fair points in a complicated topic. I would like to express my gratitude to my beloved supervisors @trainalytics @AndNicolo @GlenD800
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Thank you @ThePricep for the invitation to appear on the Progress Theory podcast to talk about endurance training. For anyone that wants to listen the episode is here
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This is a good critique of our recent paper on the validity of training load.
What is the evidence for training load as a "dose" to the training "response"? Do we need to take a step back and critique the validity of the training load concept?. @Shaun_McLaren1 reviews this paper from @trainalytics in this month's research review.
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RT @rich_burden: 🚨Good folk of Twitter, our next female athlete study is an ambitious one, so please help spread the word. @nic_rawlinson i….
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