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Aart Goossens in Critical Powers

Oct 5, 2016

Formulas from ‘Training and Racing with a Power Meter’

Introduction

Update march 6 2018: Alex Simmons pointed out that CTL and ATL are calculated as exponential moving averages of TSS and not straight averages. I corrected the calculations.

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Aart Goossens in Critical Powers

Nov 21, 2016

3 minute all out test for critical power (including video)

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Aart Goossens in Critical Powers

Mar 5, 2018

Comparison of W’balance algorithms

Update 7 March 2018: After feedback from Philip Skiba and Andy Froncioni I updated the text about the origin of the differential algorithm.
Update 8 March 2018: It was brought to my attention that I made a mistake in the formula of the differential algorithm: the…

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Aug 1, 2016

Modelling Heart Rate and Power Output

This is the first part of what will be a three part blog about modelling heart rate and power output. The three blogs together will try to follow the structure of a scientific article:

Part I (introduction). A general overview of the…

Aart Goossens in Critical Powers

Nov 15, 2016

Book review: Training and Racing with a Power Meter

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Aart Goossens in Critical Powers

Dec 19, 2017

Pilot study: Relationship between peak tangential pedal force angle and power/cadence using Wattbike data

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Aug 12, 2016

Froomey’s data

So far, this week has been a good week for us: We could enjoy the road race and individual time trial for both women and men (all…

Critical Powers in Critical Powers

Aug 1, 2016

About us

Critical Powers is a group of four human movement scientists that started off as some sort of book club. The goal of this book club was to keep our scientific knowledge about exercise physiology fresh and to discuss about topics that were of interest to us. After a few meetings and a lot of interesting debates…

Aart Goossens in Critical Powers

Dec 17, 2017

Video tutorial GoldenCheetah workout editor

In de video hieronder wordt uitgelegd hoe je met de workout editor in GoldenCheetah eenvoudig trainingen kunt maken op basis van critical power en W’balance.

Joost Rusche in Critical Powers

Oct 12, 2016

Finding an explanation for the results of the men U23 TT World Championships in Doha

The world-championships are under way and produced a couple of surprising results. As you can read in the first blog, organizing the Worlds has consequences. Yesterday Marco Mathis was…

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