Well he would have a good argument for that one.
This discussion is all very interesting, but it misses a crucial fact: the OPās workout (Baird -1) is a workout that has intervals in the vo2 zone, but isnāt a vo2max workout.
Itās 0.82 IF. Thatās not going to tax anyone for an hour. So the OPās friend is completely right that doing the rest intervals at 40% would be too low to elicit anything close to vo2 max. And your best bet would be to find a workout (Baird +2 for example) with an IF of 0.9 or more.
On the other hand, if the workout was prescribed as part of a training plan, then there will be a particular reason Chad didnāt want you actually taxing your vo2max system yet, and you should probably just stick with the prescribed workout and wait for the harder stuff in the coming weeks.
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Yes. its part of a plan. This is week 6, so its ārestā week. All workouts are meant to keep the power (or speed in case of running) but with much lower volume. The TSS should be much lower than last week to get ready for an ftp test next Tuesday
I was having this conversation on a different thread. I will probably do the 20 minute test at least once and see what happens. I may switch to that testing if I feel works better for me
Agree. The point of the wo was not necessarily make me faster. But to keep fitness while i recover from 4 weeks of non stop pounding. I think i really need this week.
yeah and the watts prescribed that we pedal at to do so is much higher than weād expect; itās mid zone 2 around 65%ā¦sometimes that is just HARD if the interval was hard enough.
to OG poster, just go easy and donāt overthink it.
good luck dropping your friend on next group ride lol
Brendan
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