Try this. Progress to the longer SS workouts. Start with ones at the lower range of SS. Tell yourself you’re allowed a ten second backspin after 5 minutes of a 10 minute interval, or 6 minutes of 12. You’ll pretty quickly realize that you’re not actually getting more tired, it’s just kind of hard the whole time. If you try to see how long you can go past that promised backspin without taking it, you might find you don’t actually need it. Long SS intervals, especially when you’re doing 3x20 or 30 are mentally really hard, but you really shouldn’t be grinding out the seconds like you might be in a suprathreshold effort.
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