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Re: Increasing FTP and Building IM Bike Distance [sentania]
sentania wrote:
I think it depends on who you are listening to.

There are a number of threads where folks like lakerfan and Rich Strauss et al. are promoting, threshold work, and SST type work.

Others promote a bit more on/off.

Yet others the traditional "build a base"

I tend to think it is more dependent upon the time of year in relation to your A race, what your A race is, and what your current aerobic "skillset" is.


Just for clarity sake, what I truly promote from a general perspective is:

1. somewhat based on the athlete's response to a specific type of training stimulus
2. highly based on the athlete's schedule and their time available to train within that schedule
3. highly based on time of year

Having said that, I've said this a million times but it really comes down to achieving some rather simple principles in the sport. I think all of that magic/fancy protocol shit that people talk about is just that... shit. It's very safe to say that the more variability (on/off) you have in your training, the more challenging it becomes to balance the training stress -- a critical requirement within the progressive overload principle. I believe that most people screw up because they really don't know how to effectively accomplish a *progressive* overload so they end up getting hurt, cause muscle damage or just make little progress because they don't know how to push themselves.

SST is definitely not fancy but it enforces consistent hard work so there's not a lot of on/off stuff making it relatively easy to manage. If you choose an "on/off" approach you really have to keep your easy days easy and your hard days hard. I think I can count the number of males who have that kind of discipline on one hand. ;-) Your average female is a different story though.

Thanks, Chris
Last edited by: lakerfan: Jan 6, 11 21:34

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  • Post edited by lakerfan (Dawson Saddle) on Jan 6, 11 21:34