Justin Wagner of TeamODZ leads the “Watts up with Power?” ride each Wednesday at 6:30AM PST.
The “Watts up with Power?” ride is likely the slowest group ride you’ll find on Zwift, because it focuses on learning the basics of power based training while riding together on Zwift. Each ride is streamed live to Zwift LIVE on Facebook and focuses on teaching specific principles of power based training. Each teaching is made available for all to review afterwards.
The content taught in “Watts up with Power?” is based on the book “Training and Racing with a Power Meter” by Hunter Allen and Andrew Coggan, PhD.
Here is the summary for Wednesday January 25th.
Many people dig through the workout library in Zwift and see terms such as SST and VO2Max and have no idea what these terms mean, or why somebody would do an SST or VO2Max workout. This episode of Watts up with Power talks about the fundamentals behind each of the most commonly used power zones in workouts and explains why you would pick each particular style of workout.
Of particular note in this episode is a graphical illustration of why SST or “Sweet Spot Training” is called that, when many people who do the workouts think, “Oh boy, this is more like Sour Spot Training!”
This week’s lesson was based on Chapter 5 of “Training and Racing with a Power Meter” by Hunter Allen and Andrew Coggan, PhD, titled “Using Power for Optimal Workouts”
