trust your base training

[Rob3rt]

Ha - some of these comments are cracking me up...
One of these rides is labelled "160km spinning below LT"
No **** - of course it was below LT, I mean who could ride pretty much continuously for 160km / 6 hours at (or above) threshold??
By definition, in simple terms LT is roughly "as hard as you can go for around 1 hour".
Next it will be "7 hour ride - below sprinting pace"
Keep them coming though

Yeah, I laughed at the ride titles too, mostly because spinning below threshold could mean anything from a recovery ride to a tempo ride pretty much

 

[gam001]

My brother used to be in the paras...you have to take your hat (beret) off to them...although they are a few sandwiches short of a picnic

Funnily enough, my brother used to be a PTI in the paras and is now a personal fitness trainer and mainly advocates interval training! His philosophy is to start with no. of hours per week available to train (usually only between 4 and 8 for his clients) and work backwards from that. To get a training load sufficient to stress the body for improvement off few hours, he says that it mainly has to be intensive work. He only uses lower intensities for recovery weeks (or a recovery month after several consecutive hard months). Obviously, if you have (say) 15+ hours a week to train, then that's obviously a different story, and more lower intensity can be used early on to build a "base", but he would still build in at least some interval work. This all seems logical and reasonable to me.

Given how much Rob3rt has improved recently and how fast he is compared to most ameteur cyclists (he did 10 miles in 20minutes at weekend, off what seems to be only around 6-8 hours per week training), I'd probably be asking him for advice if I were you

 

[Mr_K_Dilkington]

BTW, the above it not something I would say in general, I am only mocking/teasing because of the comments regarding riding at a high level and the self proclamation of being "Too much of a beast" thing

Hah, had only just seen that. I can beat this by a good few mph after only riding for 3 months without any exercise for years prior (let alone being in the paras) and I would definitely not call myself a beast or presume to lecture others on how to train.

 

[JasonHolder]

Hah, had only just seen that. I can beat this by a good few mph after only riding for 3 months without any exercise for years prior (let alone being in the paras) and I would definitely not call myself a beast or presume to lecture others on how to train.

Well done

 

[Cuchilo]

shoot hes back . Run for it lads !

 

[ianrauk]

**** hes back . Run for it lads !

Mind the banana skins.

 

[JasonHolder]

Settle down lads. It's not like I'm saying slaughter a chicken and perform a woowoo rain dance am I.

 

[vickster]

I'd rather do that than eat 30 bananas a day on the advice of some Australian whack job

 

[JasonHolder]

Mmmmm bananas.

 

[brand]

My base has been 400 miles in the last week. All below threshold and a long way below. 100m Friday and 100m today.
Sorry for sounding garish as some guys have pointed out.
I am a git.

Okay I am an old fart but that sounds like over training. Clearly a great Way to lose lard but....?

 

[Rob3rt]

Okay I am an old fart but that sounds like over training. Clearly a great Way to lose lard but....?

Do you know what over training is?

 

[4F]

Do you know what over training is?

31 bananas a day ?

 

[JasonHolder]

I would think not. But he seems nice enough. Teach someone something rob. That's what this thread started out as in the first place before the banana throwing contest started

 

[brand]

Do you know what over training is?

Yes When your average time starts to fall and the same for weight training. There you go, you have learnt something today... isn't the internet wonderful?

 

[brand]

I would think not. But he seems nice enough. Teach someone something rob. That's what this thread started out as in the first place before the banana throwing contest started

Any particular reason you think that?