Why do we really want to test athletes?

Today Phil is joined by Performamce Coach and former ITU star Grant Sheldon to discuss all things testing. We discuss the pros and cons of a Lab visit, our new remote testing protocol from INSCYD, Critical power and FTP. We want to test and an athlete to find something out. So the testing has to be able to tell us this. did we improve the desired metric? how will this help us achieve optimal race performance? how can we use test results to guide our training? Thinking beyond a one dimensional metric like FTP. understanding how many metrics relate to each other and knowing which levers to pull next! A fascinating episode with a lot of shared experience between Phil and Grant