Performance Webinars
Archived Webinars
Sport Performance
The following webinars have been recorded and are available for sale. The cost of each is $24.99. Please click on the “Buy Now” button to pay. After payment is received, you will be emailed the recording (audio and slideshow) within 24 hours if it is a weekday. If you order on a Friday, holiday or a weekend, you will be emailed the recording on the next business day. USA Triathlon Certified Coaches receive 1 CEU per 1 hour webinar. USA Cycling Certified Coaches receive 0.1 CEU per 1 hour webinar.
The Human Body, Limitations to Performance: Part 1, Krista Austin
These webinars (Part 1 and Part 2) address limitations to exercise performance through review of the following five models: 1) cardiovascular, 2) energy supply and depletion, 3) muscle recruitment and power production, 4) biomechanical and 5) psychological. The relationship of these models to endurance sports are addressed. The need for regeneration and its role in receiving the full adaptations from training are also discussed.
The Human Body, Limitations to Performance: Part 2, Krista Austin
Performance Testing and Analysis for Athletes, Krista Austin
The Benefits of Training at Altitude, Krista Austin
The rationale for using performance testing to evaluate the effects of training is presented. This will include standardized testing that is presently available and how to develop testing for a sport or coach’s specific needs. How to calculate the training impulse (impact of training on the body) and its use in the evaluation of performance testing is covered. Developing evaluation tools for competition and using the analysis to drive the next training cycle is also reviewed.
The response of the body to acute (< 1 day), short (1-5 days) and long term (> 5 days) altitude exposure, along with the implications for training and performing under this type of environment is discussed. This will include the heart rate, breathing and rate of perceived exertion response to work intensity; along with the implications for competing. Information regarding fuel use, hydration and the interaction with other aspects of the environment is also presented.
The purpose of this webinar is to provide advanced charting and tracking of athlete training to prevent performance plateaus. There will be examples of advanced charts, as well as how to create and interpret them in the WKO+ software.
Advanced Charts and Tracking in WKO+ for Athlete Performance, Jim Vance
This webinar is for any coach or athlete who wants to better understand what power is, how a power meter works, and what it can tell us about an athlete’s fitness. TrainingBible Elite Coach Jim Vance will discuss and explain how we define power, how to read a power file, and how to build training sessions and programs around power data, to help athletes reach their potential. Jim will use TrainingPeaks online software and WKO+ software to explain how to read power files. If you're a coach or athlete looking to get started with power, this is a must-see!
Introduction to Power and Power Meters, Jim Vance
If you’re a coach or athlete looking for a better understanding of swimming, in order to improve triathlon performance, this webinar is for you. TrainingBible Elite Coach Jim Vance discusses the 3 most important technical aspects of swimming, in an effective and understandable manner, which will help all coaches and athletes apply the knowledge to their strokes, practice sessions and training programs. Jim Vance is an acclaimed swim instructor, helping many competitive athletes improve their swimming dramatically, with these concepts.
Learning and Understanding the 3 Most Important Technical Aspects of Swimming, Jim Vance
Annual Training Plan Design, Matt McNamara
Periodization, base training, power, heart rate, the 3:1 on/off ratio - with so many considerations in setting out a responsible plan how is an athlete, or coach, supposed to effectively address the myriad of questions and issues that go into creating a workable season plan? This webinar walks you through the important considerations in setting up your racing season. Both power and heart rate based approaches are covered. Perhaps more importantly we'll look at two approaches to managing the intensity/duration relationship based on your total available training time.
If you want to be competitive in cycling you need to do intervals. Sounds simple enough right, but designing effective intervals is the artful application of science and all-too-often fraught with information overload for both coaches and athletes. This webinar will help you learn the fundamentals of planning intervals for athletes and coaches. Don't stumble through another mediocre season - get focused and have fun with your workouts!
Cycling Intervals, Matt McNamara
You've set out a great annual plan, done all your intervals and are ready to race! Don't let your race come down to a strategic mistake, tactical miscue, or worse not knowing the course! This webinar will help you learn the fundamentals of race planning. From preliminary and race day course recon to creating and executing an effective race plan for individuals and teams, this webinar will help you race smart. We'll focus on a couple of different events including a road race and a criterium.
Cycling Tactics and Course Recon, Matt McNamara
Train Like a Pro, Matt McNamara
Ever wondered just what separates the Pro's from the rest of us? Here's your chance to learn a little bit of the answer. This webinar will focus on the physiological and psychological profile of european pro
cyclists, including their physical and physiological profiles, training and racing volumes and their overall preparation and volume relative to amateur cyclists. It is a fascinating look at what makes a pro!
Power based training is widely seen as the Gold standard in performance coaching. The true efficacy of power based training is most evident when used in interval training, but it is also rife with potential problems. When should you do intervals, how far apart, what systems to target day to day in your
training? This webinar delves into the science and structure behind power based interval design and
implementation. We'll have lots of real world file analysis, workouts and ideas that you can use in your
own training or coaching.
Interval Training 2.0, Matt McNamara
Power 2.0: Tracking Performance and Training with Power , Jim Vance
This webinar will focus on how to use power data to track an athlete's fitness, performance, training stress, recovery, tapering, and race strategy, within TrainingPeaks online software, and WKO+ 3.0 software. This webinar is an extension of the topics covered in the "Introduction to Power and Power Meters" webinar.
Power 3.0: Advanced Power Analysis, Jim Vance
This webinar will focus on how to better assess strengths and weaknesses in an athlete's fitness levels, fine tune training to meet the specific demands of race day, and more closely monitor training on a regular basis, within TrainingPeaks online software, and WKO+ 3.0 software. This will include scattergraph analysis and Quadrant Analysis. This webinar is an extension of the topics covered in the "Power 2.0 - Tracking Performance and Training with Power".
So many athletes struggle with open-water swimming on race day, no matter how well they swim in the pool. Other athletes seem to step up their game, swimming much better than they do in the pool. How do they do it? TrainingBible Coach and elite triathlete Jim Vance discusses the specific skill sets and techniques which create successful open-water swimmers. Jim discusses everything from entries and exits, to drafting and dealing with crowds. The strategies and systems detailed in this session will help every athlete and coach, guaranteed!
Faster Open Water Swimming, Jim Vance
WKO+ for Runners, Jim Vance
This webinar by Coach Jim Vance, will focus on how to use run data from GPS and/or Foot-Pods to track an athlete's fitness, performance, training stress, recovery, tapering and race strategy with WKO+ 3.0 software. There will be examples of advanced charts, as well as how to create and interpret them for all runners, from 5k focus to the Marathon.
Power File Breakdown, Jim Vance
In this webinar, Elite Coach Jim Vance shows and discusses many of the different ways coaches and athletes can break down and review the data within a single power file, and what the data means. Coach Vance demonstrates this with WKO+ software and Training Peaks online software.
Training and Racing Cyclocross, Matt McNamara
This webinar is 60-minutes of jam packed information, power file analysis, theory and application! Perfect for those preparing their training program or for coaches looking for a little more insight into what makes a great training plan. Among the topics covered will include scheduling your season - priorities, available time, full season approach vs 'peaking' for an event, how much to race; scheduling your training progression - being realistic, aerobic vs high intensity approaches, the base/build/peak approach revisited, week to week variation; technique and tactics - four major technique competencies, four major tactical concepts; training For cross - terminology, models, guidelines; sample - race and training power files analyzed - including some innovative insights.
The Racing Review Process, Justin Trolle
So many of the triathletes and coaches I have worked with over the years have fallen victim to failing to understand this one basic rule of coaching. “There is no such thing as a bad race just races we do well in and races we learn from”. The issue happens so often that we fail to learn from our mistakes and thus are doomed to repeat them. This webinar focuses on the key aspects of the review process and how to ensure that regardless of whether you have a good race or a learning race the next one is always better than the last.
This webinar discusses how to break down race day performance into measurable components; connect what happened on race day to prior training benchmarks to ensure you know how to move forward towards the next event; how to ensure that athletes understand what to expect going into their race base on previous performance reviews and benchmarking of training performances; and how to use reviews from one athlete to benefit the future results of others within your program.
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Periodization and Planning, Justin Trolle
Periodization and planning is one of the key components of long term success in triathlon. This webinar describes in detail how to structure all of your season’s races so that you or your athletes can have the best season ever. This webinar also gives you the skills to keep improving year in and year out as an athlete or as a coach and reach your full potential. Key topics covered include 1) building a long term plan, for yourself or your athletes using the USAT Yearly Training Plan (YTP) template; 2) correct training volumes, training intensity and training frequency required for success in each discipline with athletes from Junior to Elite; 3) breaking down your YTP into the 6 key training periods-base, strength, strength/endurance, speed/endurance, race specifics/taper; and 4) understanding the concepts of 3:1 or 2:1 weekly ratios, overload, recovery and reverse build.
Benchmark Testing for Triathletes, Justin Trolle
“If you don’t know where you are going then any road will take you nowhere” this is just as true in Triathlon as it is in any field. If you are going to develop an athlete to their full potential then benchmarking will allow you to work out where your athletes are at in their training how that relates to their performance goals and where they stand relative to the competition.
This webinar is about knowing what to test, when to test it, how to test it and what the results mean to the performance of your athlete in their next race and for their long term goals. It also looks at how to compare their own performance with that of world class athletes so that in the development process you can determine their long term potential.
The webinar covers testing in swim, bike, run and transitions; understanding world class performance testing levels; using benchmarking to determine training requirements; building long term plans relative to test results; and race pacing based on testing data.
