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Welcome to episode 451 of That Traathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

I'm Rehuis Michael, and on today's episode, I'll cover a topic I've been wanted to discuss for quite a while,

which is how to improve the way you set yourself target intensities in

different types of workouts beyond simply using percentages of threshold, which is probably the

method that most listeners, both athletes and coaches, might be using as the, let's say,

standard method. For a lot of experienced athletes, especially if you have reached some kind of plateau or stagnation point,

this could be something that helps you break through that plateau and develop further

if you get your intensities a little bit more optimized and individualized.

For athletes that are more towards the beginning stages of their career,

this is a bit more marginal gain and not something that you should worry about necessarily, but it's still quite important to understand that percentages of threshold is a simple model that works well on average, but there may come a stage when you'll want to move beyond that, and when that happens, you can return to this episode and start implementing some

of the action points that we will discuss here.

So that is an outline or a description of what we will discuss today.

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