I’ve had a few requests to share some hard start VO2max workouts I created. I created the following team that has four workouts to start with. Edit. Now 14 workouts. https://www.trainerroad.com/app/teams/14144-hard-start-vo2-max-intervals The workouts are a variant on the one below - with 6 x …

[image] ErickVH: The problem is if you don’t go ‘maximal’ you might not get into VO2max… and then you wasted your time. Oh certainly not wasted time! That’s for sure. :slight_smile: Question is cost/benefit relation. Also I’m not quite sure what you and others mean by “maximal” for a set of …

[image] Anna_K: Also I’m not quite sure what you and others mean by “maximal” for a set of intervals: When do you hit RPE 10/10? At the end of every interval? At the end of the last interval? In the first minute of the first interval? :smiley: Hard enough at the start that you can’t hold that…

[image] ErickVH: Hard enough at the start that you can’t hold that pace for more than 30-60s. Hard enough for the rest that your power is tapering. Every interval. Maximal. Sounds like a workout with a series of wingate intervals. What fun!!

[image] Anna_K: When do you hit RPE 10/10? Wingate intervals!! 10/10 every second of the interval. I also have been wrestling with the same question about how hard to go in intervals. Seiler, and others, say go hard, but not so hard where you wipe yourself out. I.e. that you should always b…

Thanks for the explanation. I do like hard-starts, but I’m restricting myself to the RPE 8.5-9.5 range. Too soft for life-death-struggles week after week, month after month, year after year. I like Jem Arnold’s conclusion in his last post (although I’d go for a bit more than 8/10): Instructions f…

[image] Anna_K: Too soft for life-death-struggles week after week, month after month, year after year. A little goes a long ways…

[image] Anna_K: Too soft for life-death-struggles week after week, month after month, year after year. I do these for a 2-3 week block once, maybe twice a season. It isn’t a weekly thing. And don’t do it near an important event.

I’m going to need a more gradual introduction to this work thats less than 2.5min. will probably start with 60-90swith 3min off. My god this first workout had me on the floor for 30min. I spent only 4min above 170bpm Who here uses a Tacx neo? I cannot keep it from pulsing while in resistance mode. …

Is there any science to back this up? It seems contrary to the typical go as hard as you can, but manage the effort so you can repeat the sets at a near constant average power. If I go all out, I may last 30 seconds of some power 3-5x my FTP. Then I will totally collapse and have to do the rest of …

Hard start VO2max intervals

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bbarrera December 13, 2020, 5:43pm 47

A little goes a long ways…

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Hard start VO2max intervals

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