Aerotune on-road metabolic testing

Training
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I noticed that Aerotune has rebranded as: afasteryou.com

They also have AI generated training plans (beta) on the free tier.

I linked my Garmin data and generated a plan for fun. The workouts are surprisingly short:

Fatmax
2x16 minutes @88% - 2 minutes easy

Two of those workouts this week plus four days off, then next week VO2max for 5 days but it’s like no other workout I’ve seen

Vo2
22 minutes tempo
1 minute @ 180%
4 minutes @ 135%
4 minutees tempo
22 minutes tempo

Five workouts like that next week. I’m not sure I could do 1 minute at 180% followed by 4 minutes at 135%. It would have never occurred to me to design a VO2 block with one hard start interval per day for 5 days all in one week. A 5x5 Vo2 always leaves my legs smashed for 3-5 days so maybe this would be a valid method?

The week after is easy recovery with a lot of time off leading to an event on the weekend. (No intensity of any kind that week.)

I haven’t primed my WKO5 model in a while. I’m tempted to do some efforts to get my model up to date and then re-run aerotune’s plan to see what it says. Just for fun!

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92

I wasn’t planning on buying a subscription to do their power test.

If they are going to analyze my data then feeding my WKO5 model should achieve the same result as their power test.

I’m just curious how their workouts would change if I had an updated power profile.

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That VO2 workout looks brutal, I’ve never held 135% for 4 minutes @AJS914
The power test sounds even more brutal amd downright sadistic @ivegotabike …

94

I can hold 135% for a bit over 2 minutes - certainly not 3 minutes.