Interested in some feedback to something that hits a couple themes that come up a lot on here - TLDR: How many weeks of higher intensity VO2 max work is needed to test the idea of “pulling a FTP plateau from above” before saying “OK, now time to go consolidate base around that work?” After suffer…

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Interesting and not something I’ve explicitly looked at doing yet! The second study on the block periodization sounds like it’s suggesting something pretty radical - stacking up to 5 VO2max workouts in week 1?!? Then doing three weeks of Z1/Z2 with just a day of VO2max each week - and I guess assu…

In such a context it’s always worth to revisit this classic: [grafik] … [grafik] … [grafik] I’d say pushing from below is always more important than pulling from above. Pulling works only for a very short period.

Isn’t that training more like ‘broken’ threshold work than VO2max intervals? Were the 5 minute efforts even above the cyclists’ 40 km TT speed? Maybe instead of continuing to try to push things up from below, they simply needed to pull even harder from above?

[image] sryke: I’d say pushing from below is always more important than pulling from above. Pulling works only for a very short period. I completely agree … But after months (years?) of pushing, some pull is a pretty common prescription. The duration (and perhaps density/intensity) of that b…

Just as an association without data, You could put in 2-3 weeks of dedicated VO2max as detailed in chads progression elsewhere on this forum. This gets you pretty fit in that realm. Then continue again with 1x/week VO2.

i scanned this so apologies if I missed something, but I wrote this article that may help. I feel that The WKO guys would say a 4 week block of vo2 would do it for you. I’d hit 2 really hard vo2 workouts a week and REALLLLLY rest and endurance the remaining hours of your week, only totaling hours …

The answer for me was 6 - after 6 weeks of adding 1xVO2 session last August I was flying in my last few tt in September. But it is a pretty short term boost - you have to go back to all the other training protocols after a while!

How many weeks of VO2 max work to attempt to shake up long-term FTP plateau?

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How many weeks of VO2 max work to attempt to shake up long-term FTP plateau?

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