First failed workout. where to go from here?

[JoeX]

@Liammerrick

Im super disappointed with it being my first failure.

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You did fine

[Dubadai]

@WindWarrior

FWIW one of the best things my coach has done is to teach me to schedule either an opener or easy workout after taking 3 or 4 days off.

Same! I always have 2 consecutive days off per week, first ride after those two days always feels like shit, doesn’t matter if its a commute or whatnot.

I need one day of riding after rest, before hard rides.

Especially for trainer work. Outside it’s different when you can do 1-2 hours easy before hitting efforts.

[Helvellyn]

@Deej

I really doubt having the willpower to complete more would’ve made much difference to how fit I got.

I think this is right. Unless (maybe) you’re bumping right up against your genetic potential, forgoing that 5th 3 minute VO2 interval, say, isn’t going to cost you anything like 20% of the stimulus.

[Neuromancer]

The issue is erg mode.

You can’t fail a vo2 workout unless you don’t do it. Maximum oxygen uptake is maximum oxygen uptake.

[WindWarrior]

@Dubadai

Especially for trainer work. Outside it’s different when you can do 1-2 hours easy before hitting efforts.

Agree with you about outside, sometimes I’ll feel like not pushing the pedals hard and will just keep riding. After 40 minutes or an hour, I usually find it possible to do the hard efforts. Inside on the trainer I didn’t have the patience and would abort the session. The only fail in my mind is not getting on the bike, or prematurely aborting and not putting in the time.

[Dubadai]

@WindWarrior

After 40 minutes or an hour, I usually find it possible to do the hard efforts. Inside on the trainer I didn’t have the patience and would abort the session.

Yeah totally, but, I have also realised that if I have the time, once those interval sessions come, I usually add 45-60min of like 160w spin, just super super easy. Then the legs usually wake up.

But then the session might become like 2-2.5hrs with intervals etc.

@WindWarrior

The only fail in my mind is not getting on the bike, or prematurely aborting and not putting in the time.

Totally agree Its not a fail if the session feels like crap, and you abort the intervals and just do easy spin instead. It’s life, sometimes you fail just because it’s a bad day.

[QuittingBikes]

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