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Membership Upgrade: Video Transcripts & Chapter Titles
We have added transcripts and chapter titles to most videos on fasttalklabs.com. This was the most requested upgrade by members in a recent member survey.
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If Dr. Stephen Seiler Were Your Dad, How Would You Train? Part 2
Dr. Seiler and his daughter Siren talk about intensity zones, peaking and riding the wave, recovery diagnostics, strength training, pistol squat PRs, Paula Radcliffe, and the loneliness of the high-level female endurance athlete.
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Why and How to Monitor Athlete Training Loads
Dr. Stephen Seiler speaks at the Aspire Academy on why and how to monitor athlete training loads.
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The Holy Trinity: How to Monitor Training
Dr. Seiler shares his method for monitoring an athlete’s training volume and intensity.
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Going Faster: 150 Years of Rowing Research
Dr. Stephen Seiler delves into over a century of research to explore why rowing has gotten faster so consistently.
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Moving from Polarized Training to Personally Optimized Training
Dr. Stephen Seiler presents the reasons, methods, and benefits of moving from a polarized training template to a more personalized, optimized training method that is still based on polarized training.
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Strength and Speed Workouts for Runners
For distance runners unable to do high-intensity aerobic intervals, Dr. Stephen Seiler suggests adding strength and speed work.
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How Moving Training Indoors Affects Our Workouts
Dr. Stephen Seiler surveyed over 1,000 endurance athletes of different levels to find out how the basic characteristics of the training process have changed during the coronavirus pandemic. Here are the results.
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How to Monitor Your Nutrition
Head Coach Ryan Kohler explores best practices for using mobile apps to monitor nutrition—and reveals the red flags that can indicate when athletes are misusing these apps and developing unhealthy attitudes about their diet.
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Dr. Seiler: Short Interval Stacks, Part 2
Dr. Stephen Seiler walks through some real-life short interval workout data to reveal some rules of thumb for how you can integrate these into your own training.
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Dr. Seiler: Short Interval Stacks, Part 1
Interval training sessions with repeats of 30:30s, 40:20s, and 30:15s have become very popular. How does the (endurance-trained) body respond to this type of high-intensity interval prescription?
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Training Intensity Zones: Research vs. Practice
Dr. Stephen Seiler explains the endurance training zones schemes he uses in research (3 zones) and in practice working with Norwegian coaches and athletes (5 zones) as part of the Norwegian Olympic Federation model.
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Predicting Max Heart Rate
To avoid the high-intensity effort required to directly measure max heart rate, athletes use prediction equations. Clint Eastwood may or may not approve.
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Adjusting Training During COVID-19
Endurance athletes at all levels are adjusting to a new reality. Dr. Stephen Seiler shares some thoughts on ways athletes can adjust and make the most of a difficult situation.
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How “Normal People” Can Train Like the World’s Best Endurance Athletes
In this Tedx talk, exercise physiologist Dr. Stephen Seiler explains in words and pictures how modern exercise physiology laboratories reveal the body’s remarkable capacity for adaptation.
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How to Find Your Maximal Heart Rate
Dr. Stephen Seiler presents the case for why properly measured heart rate data is important to track and about some dos and don’ts to follow when attempting to determine your own HRmax.
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War of Attrition: Performance Analysis of a World Championship Cycling Road Race
Here is a lap-by-lap performance analysis of one rider who made it almost to the very end at the 2020 UCI Road World Championships in Imola, Italy.
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