Of course. We had to hold ourselves to a higher standard, despite expecting a much larger number of subjects than what is typically seen in sport science research, as I’m sure you know. Because of the openness of the design and all the possible sources of heterogeneity.
That depends on how much training volume you want to complete on top of the two key HIIT workouts each week. If you keep the same training duration as usual but you’ve been used to a lot of sweet spot, smash fests, a couple Zwift races each week, yeah the TSS might be lower than you’re used to.
You can and should use your typical training set-up, as long as TrainerRoad has a smart trainer to control, and is receiving reliable power data.
Sweet. So, how large of a sample size did you come up with? And since these interval workouts or at least the comparisons are apparently novel, what was the basis for your calculations?
Just trying to help you avoid spinning your wheels like this.
(Too bad Dr. Stepto passed away earlier this year. It would be interesting to get his present take on this old study.)
I’d love to participate if I wasn’t already in the middle of a plan. Also don’t pay much mind to the resident troll, likes to post random studies at every opportunity and then aggressively confront everyone like some supreme intellectual keyboard warrior. Probably doesn’t even cycle
Apologies if this question has been answered elsewhere, but when would participants be expected to start the program? I’m interested in participating, but worry that Christmas travel plans may interrupt the program. If I could start the program in the new year, I could definitely participate.
This is a major sticking point for me. I haven’t been out for two weeks and I’m itching to get out on the road later today. No way could I go 8 weeks. Sorry.
If you could allow one weekly low intensity ride outside then I’d sign up.
What’s the latest I could start? It sounds very similar to how I’ve been training, although I’ve just gone down from 2 to 1 HIIT per week and greatly increased my strength training, and I really don’t want to skip the strength work at the moment.
I do all my endurance work on the Elite Nero rollers and the high intensity intervals on the Kickr, both power matched with Assioma pedals. It’s getting too cold to ride outside in Switzerland and I’ll be avoiding skiing this season due to Covid
Curious is you will release a participant count now.
One of my pet peeves on all of the studies I’ve seen to date is the very low participant count, with no (or only little) discussion of the in-cohort variance versus the between cohort difference. So would be very interesting to see how potentially large your study is, and whether or not you will be able to tease out how much of the benefit is because of the protocol generally vs. benefit of the protocol to specific people.
How would they release the participant number now? They’re still signing up. I think getting a higher number of participants would be one of the main strengths of the study design. I wouldn’t expect a number until after the bulk of the work is done though. Even those that sign up with the best intentions now might still drop out before it starts.
I do check all requirements which I’m so happy about and also to participate in some scientific experiments which will benefit myself.
But I don’t have a trainer road account yet.
Will that be provided?
Fluid dumb trainer is still going strong, though.
This U of T alum is signed up!
