With all this talk of FaCT and heart rates, I was interested to read the other day an interview with Dan Martin, the young Irish Garmin climber in Velo News.
He was talking about his training and apparently he's shunned the idea of using coaches and trainers in the past, claiming that he knows his own body better than a physiologist with a PhD.
Anyway, David Millar introduced him to his trainer, Adrie Van Diemen, who used to train Greg LeMond and trains a number of the top Garmin riders. Martin reckons that Van Diemen's ideas have made a massive input into his rise up the ranks of the pro peloton. And, the interesting thing with all this FaCT talk is that Diemen's ideas involve basing the riders training on heart rates exclusively rather than power meters.