How do people approximately calculate their LT1 and LT 2 without a blood test?

[image] sryke: What are chronic bouts of intensity during a long endurance ride? Day over day. 3 x week, week after week (or something like that). We see fat ox rates climb back up after the 15min bouts of intensity, but we also have less time at which rider was using fat (preferentially) as …

I don’t have a background in exercise physiology. My understanding is that adaptations are driven by the number of muscle contractions, and very little intensity is required. So duration. Similar for some cardio adaptations. I’ve even heard either speculation or evidence that the heart may develop …

First of all I don’t think it is possible to say one session is better than another. Endurance is built in blocks, considering the the average half live of adaptions 3-4weeks blocks (source: again Coggan). I don’t know if one has to ride at fatmax to build fatox (especially at higher intensities). …

And how do we look at signaling? Yesterday I just gave my body 6.5 hour signal that built on progressively longer signals the weeks preceding. In the past one of those ‘long for me’ signals a month appeared to help build fitness over 4+ months. Is it possible to see signaling any other way, withou…

Right, you don’t need a lot of intensity to drive adaptation signaling. You need duration.

having built many mathematical models of molecular signal cascades in my previous professional life I can assure everyone: just because there is a signal does not mean there occurs an adaption. The body produces signals all the time without actually really picking them up. Often it’s an inactive rec…

I used to want to understand what’s happening inside the body, however after reading a bunch of pubmed stuff and conversations like this thread, it just further drives me back to what experienced coaches and coaching companies recommend. And from a self-coaching perspective, focus on small 3-4 week …

Thanks for the thoughts, guys. Do as much as you can, as hard as you can, all the time. - My High School XC Coach

[image] sryke: just because there is a signal does not mean there occurs an adaption. Sure, but we are not talking about any signal…but muscular activity…to quote Viru, who wrote a nice book on this precise topic: [image]

Calculating LT1 and LT2 approximately without a blood test?

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sryke February 27, 2022, 7:12pm 491

Now we’re really running the risk of mixing up different contexts.

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Calculating LT1 and LT2 approximately without a blood test?

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