Episode 175: The Training Season Starts Soon. Are You Ready to Go?

The Time-Crunched Cyclist Podcast by CTS

Learn the art and science of training readiness with Coach Adam Pulford and special guest, CTS Coach Jim Rutberg. Ever wonder if your wearable is telling you the full story about your readiness to train? This episode offers insights into readiness scores, tools like TrainingPeaks and WKO, and your own subjective assessments to truly understand if and when you're ready for substantial training.
Key topics in this episode:

• What is "Training Readiness" and how is it measured?
• Are Training Readiness scores from wearable devices accurate and useful?
• How Coach Adam uses WKO5 to evaluate TR
• How athletes can use their TrainingPeaks data to evaluate TR
• How athlete phenotype (e.g. sprinter vs. climber) can influence Training Readiness
• No-Tech ways athletes can tell if they are ready for training

Links:
Article: 5 Ways to Gauge Your Training Readiness
Youtube: Video with visuals described in this episode

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Guest
Jim Rutberg has been an athlete, coach, and content creator in the outdoor sports, endurance coaching, and event industries for more than 20 years. He is the Media Director and a coach for CTS and co-author of several training and sports nutrition books, including Training Essentials for Ultrarunning with Jason Koop, Ride Inside with Joe Friel, and The Time-Crunched Cyclist with Chris Carmichael. He writes for trainright.com and his work has appeared in Bicycling, Outside, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, Velonews, Inside Triathlon, and on numerous websites. A graduate of Wake Forest University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Physiology, Jim resides in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with his two sons, Oliver and Elliot. He can be reached at @rutty_rides on Instagram.
Host
Adam Pulford has been a CTS Coach for more than 13 years and holds a B.S. in Exercise Physiology. He's participated in and coached hundreds of athletes for endurance events all around the world.

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Chapter

1. Episode 175: The Training Season Starts Soon. Are You Ready to Go? (00:00:00)

2. Training Readiness and Using Wearable Data (00:00:07)

3. Understanding Training Readiness and Performance Measurement (00:13:40)

4. Training Readiness for Achieving Goals (00:25:24)