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Post by Rocket on Dec 7, 2017 15:24:25 GMT
I am currently undertaking my first one, a 14 day VO2 max booster and I'm interested to know others experiences.
Which one(s) have you done? Did they work for you? What improvements did you get if any? Did you cheat by not trying as hard as you could have? Did you give up before finishing the plan? Do you intend to do any more?
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Post by ChrisD on Dec 9, 2017 9:40:31 GMT
I am currently undertaking my first one, a 14 day VO2 max booster and I'm interested to know others experiences. Which one(s) have you done? Did they work for you? What improvements did you get if any? Did you cheat by not trying as hard as you could have? Did you give up before finishing the plan? Do you intend to do any more? I've followed plans on TrainerRoad before, most recently the 45 minute Time Crunch plan back in the spring this year. Bit of everything from VO2 max and neuromuscular sprint focused workouts, to threshold endurance through ramps, over-unders and the like. Did they work for you? / What improvements did you get if any?Certainly worked for me. Got my FTP up by about 8% and allowed me to go out on group rides again and hold my own with some of the local guys I follow on Strava who are faster than me. If I'm not near my peak for the year I end up splitting the group as some stay with me and others fly off. Some of them still leave me for dust on hills but then there's enough variation in the group on hills that they have to regroup at the top anyway, but it's the flats where they fly and I need threshold endurance to stay with them. Did you cheat by not trying as hard as you could have?I tried to be firm with myself and give the FTP test the full beans and then consciously raised the intensity of the workouts during the 8 weeks from 100% to 104-105% to try and push the gains. That was harder on he VO2 max workouts than the threshold ones. Did you give up before finishing the plan?
No, I did all the workouts in sequence, but I didn't necessarily follow the set days in the plan, as I wanted to ride outside when the conditions were best and that might have coincided with a workout day. The 8 week plan (at 4-5 workouts per week) ended up taking 2-3 more weeks than scheduled. Do you intend to do any more?Cherry picking workouts from the Sufferfest at the moment, with a focus on building threshold endurance again, with the odd VO2 max focused workout thrown in. I hope to do the 4DP test again in a week or two (maybe after Christmas) and then possibly follow one of the 10 week plans available via the Sufferfest app.
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Post by Rocket on Dec 11, 2017 18:14:09 GMT
Well done Chris. A fellow man of science giving it some appliance. Got to be the most effective way to train both for results and when time is short.
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Post by whozthis on Jan 4, 2018 11:22:15 GMT
I've signed up to a training plan from Success Cycling which provides a written plan, supported with DVD's or downloads, of cycle time, turbo & road, core exercises over a twelve week period. All was going really well until the Christmas break where travelling to see grandkids and a winter bug have interfered with progress but worked out a recovery programme and getting back on track It's hard work but not such that it burns you out after each session, unless I'm not working hard enough , but works for me.
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