Advice on getting through the first few Base workouts

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Starting the sweet spot base. Tomorrow I do Baxter. What are your tips that you wish you knew, when you were just starting out here? Set up? nutrition? etc.

thanks!

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Don’t overthink things too much at this stage. You’ll know soon enough if you need to have longer warmups/cooldowns, need to eat during rides. Experiment with riding as soon as you wake up or after you finish work, find a natural cadence and just keep consistent because results will follow.
Best of luck

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This ^

Just allow yourself to enjoy the challenges and the process. Whatever your goals or reason for training, look for the little victories.

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I wish I had discovered the podcast sooner.

I wouldn’t keep trying to speed up my progression through the different phases.

That’s it. Stick to the plan and have fun.

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A towel or two, water, fan and maybe some music. You’ll be fine :+1:

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Only doing the workouts outside so perhaps my experience will be a bit different but so far I haven’t found the workouts to be really hard. It’s not like they feel easy but just the right amount of work is required. I’m not completely wasted after a session but you do get the feeling that you had a nice workout. What I’m trying to say is that you shouldn’t worry to much about at least the first couple of workouts (if you ftp is set right).

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thanks everyone. I appreciate the input.