HV is not the silver bullet, but it's another tool in the toolbox that you can use to monitor how your training is going, and it can really help with that with the consistency side.

That Traflam's show, the podcast presented by

ScientificTraflon.com.

As always, I'm your host, Michael Michael and today's episode is an interview on

hard rate variability or HRV for triathletes and endurance athletes with one of the greatest

experts on the topic in the world today. Dan Ploos, PhD, coach of elite athletes, and he has many more merits to his name,

and we'll go into that on the interview in a minute. We talk about things like how HRV can help

you decide when to do high-intensity workouts and when to hold back instead, and why that may be better than just sticking to a rigid program, having that adaptability

based on HRV.

We also discuss how to use your HRV baseline as a tool to help determine if your training

load in a block of training is appropriate or if it's too large or even too small.

And we go into things like the tools, apps and stuff and other resources that are getting

really good these days that you can use and that the pluse as he goes by recommend when

you get going using HRV in your triathlon training.

So let's not waste any more time. Just enjoy the interview.

All right. So today's guest on that triathlon show is Dan Ploos, who is a PhD and coach of

several elite athletes in triathlon as well as in cycling. So Dan, welcome to the show

first and foremost. And can you give us a quick intro to yourself in addition to what I already

mentioned? Yeah, for sure. Yeah, thanks for having me on the show. I think you encapsulated it quite well.

I am a PhD in specifically looking at heart rate variability.

I'm a member of the coaching company called Ploos and Prof, and we coached some professional triathletes,

Jan Van Berkel, Tim Van Berkel, Caroline Steffen. And I'm also a research fellow at Auckland University

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