So why do we build the metabolic base first?
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Why *don't* we do intervals in the winter?
- a brief thread π
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Why *don't* we do intervals in the winter?
- a brief thread π
Above you'll see one of me early metabolic tests from ~16 years ago.
The black is my fat burning, the gray is my CHO burn.
As you can see, in my threshold zone, fat burning dropped to zero and every minute at 280-300W cost me ~20kcal worth of CHO stores, i.e 1200kcal/hr!
The black is my fat burning, the gray is my CHO burn.
As you can see, in my threshold zone, fat burning dropped to zero and every minute at 280-300W cost me ~20kcal worth of CHO stores, i.e 1200kcal/hr!
Below is another test from an elite Ironman guy.
Even though his threshold is higher than mine, he was still burning ~7kcal/min of fat in his threshold zone, i.e. even though riding *harder*, it was only costing him 13kcal/min (780 kcal/hr) from his CHO stores!
Even though his threshold is higher than mine, he was still burning ~7kcal/min of fat in his threshold zone, i.e. even though riding *harder*, it was only costing him 13kcal/min (780 kcal/hr) from his CHO stores!
Even more importantly, when he was noodling around in his easy zone in between hard workouts, it was only costing him ~5kcal/min from his CHO stores (a number easily matched by a sports drink)!
It was costing me double this! And driving me further into depletion!
It was costing me double this! And driving me further into depletion!
This is the big advantage of having a strong base *before* doing hard training:
* You can do much more for the same glycogen cost
* You can accumulate more easy training between without further depleting the system and therefore
* You can recover much faster!
#BaseBeforeBuild
* You can do much more for the same glycogen cost
* You can accumulate more easy training between without further depleting the system and therefore
* You can recover much faster!
#BaseBeforeBuild
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