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

Sorry I haven’t watched those WKO webinars, so I’m putting on my captain obvious hat and regurgitating what Tim said. Tracking movement of LT1 using soft estimation: “lots of ways to estimate LT1” “track power at HR approximation” “long term trend, a couple of micro-cycles, of that number improvi…

[image] WindWarrior: Sorry I haven’t watched those WKO webinars, so I’m putting on my captain obvious hat and regurgitating what Tim said. I know. All good. I was waiting for the “such and such may or may not” list from above. We gotta keep that going. Also, for what it’s worth, I have foun…

I’ll try updating that list this week.

Moxy reminds me of those old Commodore Atari times, they really have to work on the product design at this price point. The only wearable that could get me currently is this breathing rate thing. But this would be a winter toy for the basement However, somehow I have lost any motivation to spend m…

Our formerly local Kona age grouper moved to Kona, and she posted on Strava a couple times this season wearing that $5000 oxygen mask thing. Benefit of her choosing the right coach :joy:

[image] [image] [image] [image] Source: [image] Peter Attia @PeterAttiaMD 1/7 On the heels of this week’s podcast with @doctorinigo on all things Zone 2 (link below), I want to walk through my very simple system for keeping track of my Zone 2 workouts. bit.ly/3725TJm 4:37 P…

Wow, sounds familiar but I only did during ride and after ride checks for 5 months. Got tired of it. Attia is not messing around. I feel lazy now, and cheap. Costs him like a dollar a ride :sweat_smile: (assuming he gets his strips from Jerry) “Trainer Road”. See that?

I reviewed his numbers on that sheet of paper, and comments on lactate variations. Simply reinforced my pragmatic trending analysis of power @ 140-bpm (my HR proxy for LT1).

I use the talk test. I started about 20 watts lower than I’m at now last year. Today’s workout was 2 1/2 hrs steady at upper zone 2. Watched British Detective shows.

Steve Magness had good post on zones. Basically, don’t get too caught up in the precision of zones and overemphasize it. the zones and the borders between them are arbitrary. For the most part, they are not concrete. Even though we treat them as such. [image] Steve Magness @stevemagness …

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Calculating LT1 and LT2 approximately without a blood test?

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