Internationally Recognized Coach and Author to Focus on Successful Winter Training Techniques for Endurance Athletes Seeking Summer Peak
OA Performance today announced that Joe Friel, an internationally recognized endurance athlete coach and author, is to present a daylong workshop, “Winter Base Training for the Endurance Athlete.” Oriented specifically to triathletes, cyclists, runners and duathletes, Friel’s workshop provides an in-depth look at successful winter training techniques for athletes seeking peak performance in the summer months. The workshop is to be held on Sunday, December 12, 2010 from 8:30a to 4:00p at the OA Performance Center at 15 Lund Road in Saco, ME.
“Endurance athletes are always looking for quality information and advice that will give them an edge,” said Stan Skolfield, the OA Performance Center Manager. “Joe offers a tremendous amount of knowledge and insight about what it takes to improve endurance performance.”
Coach Joe Friel has trained endurance athletes since 1980. His clients are elite amateur and professional road cyclists, mountain bikers, triathletes, and duathletes. He is the author of ten books on training for endurance athletes including the popular and best-selling Training Bible book series. Friel conducts seminars around the world on training and racing for cyclists, multisport athletes and coaches, and he provides consulting services for corporations in the fitness industry.
Workshop Agenda:
The workshop agenda includes volunteer metabolic performance testing by OA Performance Center athletic performance specialists:
8:30a Registration
9:00a Welcome
9:10a Building a Better Winter Base
- Fundamentals of periodized training (What is periodization? What should we train in the winter months to assure summer success?)
- Muscular endurance, aerobic training and strength training for the endurance athlete
- Testing: Establishing a base with Lactate Threshold Test and V02 Max Test (an audience volunteer is asked to take each test with results shared later in the day)
- What do test results mean? How do I improve?
- Tools: Training Peaks, periodization examples, training stress, fatigue, fitness and form
10:30a Break
10:45a Race Weight and Metabolic Efficiency
- What is optimal body composition?
- How do I achieve race weight?
- Paleo diet for athletes
- What is metabolic efficiency?
- Why is fat burning important for longer endurance events?
- Metabolic Efficiency Test: Establishing a base and improving (an audience volunteer is asked to take a Metabolic Efficiency Test, results shared later in the day)
- Body Fat Test: Establishing a base (audience volunteers are asked to be tested, results shared later in the day)
12:00p Lunch Break
1:00p Physiology of the Successful Endurance Athlete - What Are My Limits?
- Share results of V02 Max Test – meaning interpreted
- Share results of Lactate Threshold Test – meaning interpreted
- Basics of athlete physiology
- What are my limiters? How do I improve as a cyclist? As a runner? As a swimmer?
- Training tools (power meters, GPS units, etc)
2:15p Break
2:30p Going Long - Special Requirements for Half and Full Ironman Distances
- Metabolic Efficiency Test results shared and interpreted
- Implications for Ironman competitors
- Training protocols: how much is enough?
- Balancing overload, super compensation and recovery
- Overtraining - signs and symptoms - striking the right balance
- Race day nutrition
- Race day trouble shooting (It's a long day – what adjustments can be made along the way? How do I avoid trouble to begin?)
3:30p Q&A
4:00p Adjourn
Registration:
Registration for “Winter Base Training for the Endurance Athlete” is open to all interested participants by calling 207-710-5509. OA Performance Center is charging a nominal price of $25. The workshop is limited to the first 200 registrations.
