I saw this on Instagram and it gave me the idea to start a thread showing the weirdest, wildest, hardest, insanely stupid(?) workouts pros do. Partly for fun. Partly to see if anybody wants to try them.
17x3min @ 125-130%, 12 min rest.
So who’s up for it?
Not me, but 
in admiration! 
Not bad as a morning lung opener before the main session in the afternoon I suppose.
A 380 TSS day with 51 minutes of VO2 work. Yeah, I do those weekly. Trying to make it two of those a week.
Anything involving intervals or power tests starting AFTER getting in 2000+ kj.
Over the past 10 years of cycling I’d have only been in position to even start the “work” portion of such a workout 8 times . . .
I feel like this should be on a (de)motivational poster or something!
Saw one of Jonas Abrahamsen’s workouts. Doesn’t look super crazy, meaning I’m going to try it. It’s 8x8, ramping sets from 90% to 110%. So 8 intervals, it looks like he did 90/90/95/95/100/100/105/110. Which on the surface doesn’t look too crazy since the first half is below threshold. I guess the magic happens in the back end when you’re doing fatigued sets above threshold. His threshold is around 440W so his final set was like 490W. For a full ramp I was thinking 90/93/96/99/102/105/108/110.
I think the 425W set was supposed to be 100% (440W) based on a previous workout he did.
I’m getting my hair done that day (and I’m bald!).
Even though that day’s “workout” was 8x8 at threshold, which is quite a pull, it is worth noting that was only 1/6th of the overall ride: a 6h+ ride with 3,710m climbing at 295W NP.
For Jonas the overall ride was 66% IF and 3,409 kJ
Or, to crassly interpret that Monday ride, about the same as one whole week of a typical TR Base Phase Mid Volume plan.
Yea, he was doing like 30-33 hours a week, with these intervals as a part of 5 or 6 hour rides.
8x8 ramping like that is a mental game as much as a physical one. That 490W finish is insane, though! For mortals, 90/93/96/99/102/105/108/110 sounds brutal but doable. Who’s feeling masochistic enough to give it a go?
One part of these workouts is also that the pros have a different level of fatigue resistance and also genetically are able to soak things up differently compared to us mortals.
It might not be a feasible workout for non-pros.
While it might be possible to finish the workout, it might be more fatiguing than beneficial.
With that said, going with a 4x8 och 6x8 might be more feasible, with a similar ramp 
