Turbo Man's Fitness Blog: A Little Bit Harder

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'It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.' Theodore Roosevelt 23 April 1910

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

A Little Bit Harder

It was a session on the gym bike today and I thought I needed to suffer a little, so it was 55 minutes of the hill session at Level 14, + 5 mins recovery. The peaks were at about 90% of MHR with the majority of the session being at about 75%. Probably a bit high for this time of year but I felt good afterwards.

2 comments:

Sags said...: 90% of MHR is well into the pain zone dude! Nice one. An interesting concept linked to reverse periodisation - up your threshold pace and increase your power early in the winter, and then build your longer stuff off a faster platform. . . . faster or slower in the race season? Or the same?; 15 January 2010 at 15:54
Turbo Man said...: I've been using Reverse Periodisation for a number of years (I think we have discussed it on a number of occasions).; 16 January 2010 at 09:22