Join us live for Episode 187 of the Ask a Cycling Coach Podcast! Topics to be discussed: does nose breathing actually improve performance, are recovery drinks essential, why and when you should consider double days and more! Tomorrow morning at 8:00am Pacific!
He had been training his 30 second power capabilities and can see from the Interval Search he performed 56 Intervals at that intensity. This confirms that his training has been successful.
@JMickel They’ve not really encouraged other than to say we’re crazy. It makes sense, though, since there is inherent liability if they ‘endorse’, I suppose.
Regarding Junior Racers. When kids are going through these high growth years they go in an out of form quickly. They have a growth spurt and become gangly, uncoordinated, and under-muscled (and their bike is too small) and get crushed. They get the coordination back and get better. Then they muscle up into their new size and they’re on top. Then they grow some more. For the kids it makes sense to focus on the things they can control and understand that a lot what happens with the podiums has to do with this growth cycle that is beyond their control.
Nate. If you’re looking for things to research with the TR data base, I’d be interested in the following: How much TSS, on a sustained basis, does it take to 1) Maintain FTP, 2) Slowly increase FTP, 3) quickly increase FTP. This data might need to be sorted into Age/Sex buckets.
Yeah, I mean in general. It seems all year long. I haven’t even had a real cold in years, seems like @Jonathan and @Nate_Pearson in particular get sick a ton.
Would you classify training at say 8pm at night and 6am next morning as a double day?? If so how would you differ your recovery and pre-workout meal to suit the overnight and sleep aspect?
Basically I have a structured outdoor Monday night bike workout that lasts 2 hours from 7pm-9pm I am generally home by 9.45 TSS for past 2 weeks has been around 240, I then have a swim workout at 6am next morning which again is a tough session. Both are key workouts for me but as they are scheduled by 2 separate clubs I can’t change the times or days. At present I have my dinner at 4.30pm which consists of Chicken, wholemeal rice and veggies, Cliff bar around 30 mins before my bike session and a gel 1 hour in. Upon completion of my workout i have a SIS Recovery shake and a bow of cereal and milk when I get home before bed.
Upon waking for my swim around 5.20am i have two slices of white toast with butter and honey and a double espresso.
At the moment I am feeling ok but I can definitely feel the fatigue creeping in around 40min into the swim.
