That Triathlon Show | EP#169 - FTP, VO2max and VLaMax

[neil]

Not sure if this has been mentioned in this thread or not:

Interesting comment in the Forward podcast

Lance Armstrong was interviewing Ryan Hall, the fastest male US marathoner, they were talking about their hardest ever workouts…Lance said they spent very little time training over threshold…he referenced that the theory was that if you trained at or just below threshold your threshold would increase but if you trained above threshold your threshold would decrease. I understand the first part and it explains why sweetspot base is so effective. The second part I would agree with but makes me th…

I don’t know if this relationship between VO2max and VLaMax was understood back then, but sounds like Armstrong’s training followed this prescription pretty closely.