Last night I hit the turbo as planned and after a nice warm up completed 6 x 30 seconds maximal effort with 4 min recovery at L2 effort. Regular readers here will know that I'm a fan of this session because it has been scientifically proven to bring on the same results as regular L2 rides lasting approx 2.5 hours, and it's all over in 47 minutes including warm up and warm down. In other words, my type of training! I was initially sceptical about the science behind it as the group used was quite small, but there have been subsequent tests using larger groups that have returned similar results. It's therefore a regular in my training regime. I do, though, need to change my cassette on the turbo bike as I am currently limited by cadence rather than my ability to produce power; time to bring out the 11-tooth on the turbo! And HR was over 90% of MHR at the end of each 30 seconds so exactly as it should be.
Despite my binge yesterday, the training seems to be doing the trick as I weighed 11 4.8 (72.2kg) this morning.
Alsager 5 Mile Race
1 month ago
2 comments:
Sounds positive again. Can't you just turn up the resistance on the turbo rather than messing around with cassettes, that's what I do if I run out of gears (which does happen occasionally before you jest!).
FTP test ... ? When ?
But I also record the distance and adding resistance affects that. But yes, I could.
I have put the FTP test date in the diary. :-)
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