I am REALLY excited to say that today’s episode I get to interview the founder of Training peaks, Coach Joe Friel! So this is really cool because if you guys haven’t heard of Joe before, he has been coaching since 1980 and was also the publisher of the Training Bible in the late ’90s, in what has since been used by several national sports federations to train their coaches. Now Joe noticed that in the 90’s that coaches were still using fax machines and writing training plans out on paper and he came up with an idea of the world's first online training log for coaches to work with an unlimited number of athletes. Although Joe currently only coaches a few athletes, he mostly focuses on training emerging top-level coaches on best practices in preparing endurance athletes for competition. Consider him a coach of coaches in endurance sports and we are fortunate to have him on the podcast to talk about his philosophy and methodologies of training! In this episode, you’ll hear about how he came up with the features of training peaks including the Training Stress Scores, the Intensity Factors, and how coaches can maximize its use to track their athletes. We also chat about the Training Bible and dive into his training philosophies and methodologies so that we can take these ideas and incorporate them into our training! We also go over some very practical training advice that we can all start to incorporate into our training plans! It’s an excellent podcast today so sit back, relax, and enjoy the episode!