Phil Skiba: Optimized Training Stress and Scientific Training for Endurance Athletes

FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast

In this episode of the FasCat Coaching podcast, Coach Frank is joined by Dr. Philip Skiba. Dr. Phil has a rare quadruple threat pedigree in that he is a medical doctor as well as a Ph.D. in exercise physiology, and has 20+ years of coaching experience including coaching Olympians and World Class Endurance athletes. Perhaps best of all, Phil has deep domain expertise in power-based training methodologies and often refers to himself as an algorithmic human performance engineer. Dr. Phil and I have been working on a new sports science technology that aggregates your power data with your sleep and HRV data plus our new power-based training stress metric, OTS. More on that later on in the podcast but first let’s do our ROTW and get to know Phil. What we discuss:

• Who is Dr. Phil and what does he do?
• Dr. Phil’s perspective on the polarized v pyramidal debate
• W’ and the battery?
• Is there a real-time W’ application for athletes to use on their bike computers during training and races?
• Coach Frank and Dr Phil’s work together on Optimized Training Stress (OTS)
• How does OTS work with fatigue and with carbohydrate intake?
• Using OTS with sleep and wearable data to help athletes and coaches and sports scientists better manage training
• Stress-recovery balance

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