I mean it’s under threshold so it must be easy right? That’s what I thought until the last interval. Glad I didn’t bail but I really wanted to. Anyways, my heart rate was (170/198) , (175/198) , (178/198) for each of the intervals. Is this normal? Too high?

About 80÷ sure I would finish it, leggs were very ok breathing wasn’t rapid like during end of ramp test. I am focused on HR because I have never reached over 180 bpm during the sustainable power so it is something new to me.

Thank you for your response and for the TR :slight_smile: it is amazing product and community.

I did that today, it was not super fun

How do you know your max heart rate is 190? Is that the highest that you’ve ever recorded? Was that at your absolute, falling off the bike, hyperventilating heart rate? Or could you have gone harder? Like Nate and others have said, don’t worry about the heart rate part. Work the prescribe percentag…

190 was the highest recorded and it was the moment when I have almost no breath at all - I could sustain it for about couple of seconds. Like I said - it was the first time for me having this kind of situation during the workout and my first 3x20 min 95%. The shorter intervals (15 min) and 20min at …

This post talks about doing sweet spot intervals with a heart rate cap. Might be worth a read if you’re interested in another point of view. [image] Recent Flo podcast with Steve Neal Training Anyone listen to this. All about raising FatMax, potentially very interesting …

I also pay a lot of attention to my heart rate, just as a measurement of my aerobic fitness. A couple weeks ago doing intervals at high end of sweet spot, I was way up into a threshold zone, high 160s for me. In multiple workouts since in that zone, consistently low 150s through every minute of th…

yep When I did Spruce Knob (2x30) earlier this week, 3x20 sounded sweet.

I don’t think this is the reason. If you are someone who skews fast twitch fibers, long, lower cadence tempo/sweet spot intervals are known to be effective at improving fatigue resistance (lowering VLaMax). For me, if I ride sweet spot at too high an intensity, my cardio gives up (or I put my cardio…

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This post talks about doing sweet spot intervals with a heart rate cap. Might be worth a read if you’re interested in another point of view.

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