About this episode

This episode explores the impact of AI on endurance coaching and athlete performance.

AI is rapidly changing nearly every industry, and endurance coaching is no exception. In this episode, CTS Head Cycling Coach Adam Pulford explores where AI can genuinely help athletes improve, where it falls short, and why the future of coaching may be more collaborative than competitive. We discuss training data, prompting, bias, TrainingPeaks, Claude, ChatGPT, Vekta, Kristin Faulkner's use of AI, and the areas where experienced coaches still provide value that algorithms struggle to replic...

People in this episode

Host: Adam Pulford

Topics covered

• AI in sports
• endurance coaching
• athlete performance
• training data
• collaborative coaching
• technology in fitness

Keywords

• AI
• endurance coaching
• athlete improvement
• TrainingPeaks
• ChatGPT
• coaching technology
• training data

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: TrainingPeaks, Claude, ChatGPT, Vekta

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