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Power in Numbers continued...

3/24/2016

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It has been much too long since my last post on the power of collaboration with WKO4 so in the sole interest of breaking the silence today's post will be brief.

One of my favorite features from WKO 3 was 'fast find' which allowed me to tell the software what I determined to be a match and then set up parameters to go and find those matches, but as great as this was it was a tedious process and often times took a lot of trial and error. I recently caught wind that a coach in Korea had created a chart in WKO4 that would find matches. I located the chart and downloaded it and but it wasn't exactly what I was looking for. This coach's chart was looking for power values above certain peaks and then changing the power channel to a different color while I wanted something that would highlight intervals.  Alas, that is the beauty of WKO4. I was able to see what he was doing by looking at the expressions and then go in and tweak them until I got the information that I thought was important. In my chart I told the software to look for certain percentages above set FTP and then add different colored bars to those values in order to highlight those intervals (below). Another unexpected benefit of this method is that by zooming in on an interval, it makes it very easy to see when the athlete was above or below the target value (bottom image)

You can download the chart here. While it may not be exactly what you are looking for hopefully it will get the wheels turning and inspire you to build upon it, create something better, and then reshare it with the world. ​
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Power in Numbers

11/7/2015

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"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much" -Helen Keller

After reading Chris Baddick’s fantastic post on innovating his training with the new WKO4 software I was inspired to come out of blogging retirement (looks like I haven't posted in 2 1/2 years!) to share some of my own charts in hopes that this will act as a spark to encourage others to do the same. You see, WKO4 is unlike any other training software that currently exist. While there are plenty of tools available to look at the existing metrics such as average power, heart rate, cadence, etc. WKO4 allows you to view and compare data in almost any way you can imagine. Up until this year I had been using  a combination of WKO 3 and Xcel or Google sheets to compare  and tweak data sets due to the confinements of the existing software. But today if something should strike my fancy I can run to the computer, fire up WKO4, enter the expression and see what was in my head unfold in front of me. Now don’t get me wrong, WKO4 is by no means plug ‘n play. It is a very advanced tool with a steep learning curve, however, through the ability to share charts and the TrainingPeaks chart exchange this learning is accelerated by the fact that you can quickly and easily download existing charts to see what ‘expressions’ were used and then tweak them to get the information you are after. At the end of the day WKO4 is a game changer and will allow coaches and athletes to innovate and collaborate on a scale never before seen as evidenced by the popularity of Chris’s post. By throwing out new ideas we can get people to challenge conventions and spark conversations while getting them to think about their training in new ways. It is an exciting day in this information age and I am proud to be a part of it! With that I would like to share one of my own packs and hope to make this a regular occurrence.

Above you can see my Cyclocross (and eventually Mtb) Analysis Pack. After looking at several athletes power files from cyclocross races it quickly became apparent to me that due to the short bursty nature of the sport the average and normalized power were usually much lower than you would expect and not truly indicative of the effort so I set out to create a pack of charts that might give me a little more insight into effort required for this type of event. On the top you will find a graph with power and heart rate as well as a hr threshold line and a power trend line. On the top right we see total duration and pedaling duration plus time spent coasting plus the power during pedaling time. On the left we have power tss heart rate tss and then the difference between the two. On the bottom in the ‘child charts’ you will find; time in zones, power by cadence, acceleration, and some other pertinent charts to dig in a bit deeper. You can find the chart pack here. Please download it, tweak it, and improve upon it.

Again, it is my hope that this will spark discussions and inspire you to challenge the conventions and think about your training in new ways. 
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