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That Triathlon Show

WKO4: How triathletes should use its powerful capabilities with Tim Cusick | EP#72

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9596 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

WKO4 is a powerful analytics software that can model your entire physiology very accurately. This in turn gives you the insights needed to plan your training optimally to achieve your best performances possible.   IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: The Power Duration Model Key features for triathletes: Stamina, Time To Exhaustion, and Individualized training zones WKO4 for running with power How to use the information from WKO4 to drive training decisions.   LISTENER QUESTIONS: If you have questions that you want me to answer on the show or off the show (in an email), send me your question via email or Twitter (contact information below).   SHOWNOTES: www.scientifictriathlon.com/podcast/   LINKS AND RESOURCES: Running Power Meters with Chris Hague | EP#59 Level up your triathlon using Training Peaks | EP#39 Getting Started with WKO4 WKO4 website About Tim Cusick Velocious Cycling Adventures   RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/   Send feedback, questions or just wanna chat? CONTACT me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0

That Traathlon Show, episode 72.

0:19.0

Hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of That Traathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

0:28.4

As always, I'm your host Michael, and on today's episode I interview Tim Kusik, who is a product lead of WKO4, which is a powerful, powerful software analytics platform that can

0:42.4

really give you some tremendous insights into your physiology, like not just going way beyond

0:49.4

what is your FTP, but actually giving you a complete picture of your V-O-2 max, your functional reserve capacity,

0:58.1

your max power, your threshold power, and all sorts of other things like your stamina.

1:03.4

How long can you hold a certain power after you have exerted yourself for a certain amount?

1:08.7

You're time to exhaustion at your functional threshold power

1:11.5

because it's not one hour for every single person, but it varies. And yours may be as low as 30 minutes,

1:17.9

or it can be 70 minutes. So there are all sorts of things that you can do with WCO for, whether you use it

1:24.7

for cycling or for running, if you have a running power meter. We talk about that as well in the interview for running if you have a running power meter we talk about

1:28.1

that as well in the interview but if you have any sort of power meter then you need to listen to

1:34.0

this interview because there are so many things that wk o can potentially do for your training

1:39.8

if you you are interested in learning more about advanced physiology and how not just learn more about it,

1:48.1

but actually how you can then tailor your training based on that information that you gain.

1:53.7

So let's just die right in to the interview with Tim Cusick.

2:02.1

Today's interviewee on That Triathlon show is Tim Kusik, who is a program manager and

2:08.8

co-developer of WKO4, which is a powerful analytics software developed by TrainingPeaks.

2:16.6

Tim, welcome to that triathlon show.

2:19.0

Well, thanks for having me. Yeah, it's my pleasure. And WCO4, many of our listeners,

2:24.2

will be familiar with it at least on a like 10,000 feet overview level, what it can do. But I don't

2:31.2

think actually many have used it themselves because it's something that

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