Performance Process: Frank Overton on the Optimize app, sleep data, and wearables
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Escape Collective
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🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Surprise. We are interrupting our usual fortnightly episodes of Performance Process to bring you a bonus episode with Frank Overton of FasCat coaching.
When we announced Performance Process a little under two months ago, we promised we'd bring you some of the insightful conversations we would be having anyway with experts and industry insiders. That's exactly what we are doing in this episode. It's less a performance process and more an insight into an interesting offering. Hence why it is a bonus episode and not a bi-weekly deep dive.
As a long time listener to the Fascat Coaching podcast I was pretty interested when I heard Frank and the team had developed an app for combining wearable sleep data and on bike training metrics to provide a traffic light, red, amber, green, training readiness score for any given day. It was the promised simplicity and actionable insights that really caught my eye. So, when Fascat reached out looking to setup a meeting to tell me more about the Optimize app, I gladly obliged. About two minutes into that call, I decided to start again and this time we'd hit record on the Google Meet. This week's episode is that meeting. Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Performance Process, everybody. I'm Kayle Fritz joined as always by |
| 0:17.0 | Ronan McLaughlin Ronan. What is your CDA today? Today, I don't know, it is quite high today. |
| 0:24.0 | You're like a 0.28. |
| 0:26.0 | A good day. |
| 0:28.0 | 0.35. |
| 0:29.0 | 0.35. |
| 0:30.0 | Oh, a normal day. |
| 0:32.0 | Well, we're actually, we're not talking CDA today, we're not talking aerodynamics really at all. |
| 0:37.0 | We're talking, well we're talking optimization, sleep and wearables and all sorts of other things. |
| 0:42.6 | Ronan you had an interesting conversation with Frank Overton |
| 0:45.9 | who is the mind the man behind Fast cat coaching. |
| 0:49.3 | Also, weirdly, my old neighbor in the neighborhood in Boulder. |
| 0:54.1 | He said I run into riding all the time. |
| 0:55.9 | He did say, oh, thanks. |
| 0:57.4 | But he's got a new product. |
| 0:59.4 | He's been coaching for a very long time. |
| 1:01.0 | I think that a lot of folks out there might know him as a real proponent of |
| 1:05.9 | SweetSpot training. That's kind of one of the big things that his kind of coaching group has always pushed |
| 1:11.5 | and believes is a really great option particularly for folks, |
| 1:14.5 | you know, like you and me, they're a little more time-crunched and maybe don't have time |
| 1:18.1 | for the big, big volume stuff. Anyway, that's kind of one of the things he's really |
| 1:22.1 | well known for, but he's got something else coming down the pike right now that actually just was a means of spurring a broader conversation for us about |
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