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2012-10-26 8:47 AM

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Subject: RaceDay Apollo
Anyone here have any experience with RaceDay Apollo by Dr. Phil Skiba?  What are your thoughts, opinions, etc?  Worth the $125?

2012-10-26 9:03 AM
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I know JorgeM uses it so maybe you can PM him
2012-10-26 9:12 AM
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Subject: RE: RaceDay Apollo
I used it briefly when I started coaching but found Wko+ to fit my needs better. This was at or close to its launch so I'm sure future version have been improved, you'll need to learn some new vocab as some of his concepts are similar to Cogan but slightly different terminology is used.

They have an interesting concept they're introducing called W' (W Prime) which I can only imagine has been or will be introduced to RDA.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22382171
2012-10-26 9:25 AM
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Subject: RE: RaceDay Apollo
THere were a lot of things I liked about it, but i ended up going with training peaks mainly due to the communication ease with athletes..daily workout emails and ensuing discussion about sessions that are all intiated via their TP workout update.

For a non-coach, that would be a non-issue .I believe there is a trial as well.
2012-10-26 12:36 PM
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It's a good tool.

To really make it work, you have to do a few time trials in your respective legs to get a good enough model. If you're into planning stuff and figuring yourself out, it's a good tool. The time trials can fatigue you though, that's one complaint.

The most useful graph is the effect curve. The curve is nice that you can see where your body will start to "supercompensate" and can plan quality workouts around that.

Where it falls apart for me is when I have a hectic day or week at work and the model becomes less accurate. R2 <40. So I can see Raceday being more useful with someone who can more or less control their daily stress, sleep, and schedule.

If it's worth $125? I don't know but I haven't regret using it.

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