Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Hey Ming (is that what we call you?) are you training for anything specific or just to get/stay fitter? And are you self coached or following a programme?
I find if I don’t have something to train for my fitness drifts. It’s good enough for general health and fitness but I don’t push it higher without a target. The pandemic wasn’t good for maintaining my pre pandemic fitness as my targets got cancelled one by one.
I am training for this https://www.paris-brest-paris.org/en/accueil-en2/ which is 1200km over 4 days, but I have 200km, 300km, 400km, 600km qualifying events on the way there.
I thus ride ultra endurance events. You won’t find anything off the shelf but the basic mainstays of volume and intensity sprinkled on top, and progressive overload apply.
I signed up to https://athletica.ai/ last May. Initially paying monthly but went to annual subscription once I saw I was getting results with it. It’s really good for my mentality as I can do the assigned work indoors or outdoors. Given a choice I prefer outdoors. If I do more than scheduled or less it adjusts subsequent sessions to ensure progressive overload. Getting good results with it and haven’t felt this fit in ages.