I think it’s time to start a dedicated thread on this. This is an interesting topic, the Pro/Elite is not the proper place for this. Personally, I find this an interesting model. Perhaps someone else wants to copy in some relevant infos from the Pro/Elite thread.

[image] sryke: If at all one could potentially assume that Fatmax may correlate very well with the point, where La rises the first time above baseline Put simply then @sryke , find your LT1 and LT2 - whatever those figures may be. Then, train at as close to your LT1 as possible or just a littl…

[image] CH01: Put simply then @sryke , find your LT1 and LT2 - whatever those figures may be. Then, train at as close to your LT1 as possible or just a little bit below. I guess this is what ISM is suggesting. And others. I don’t know how universally valid this concept is. As you can see in th…

[image] sryke: I guess this is what ISM is suggesting. And others. I don’t know how universally valid this concept is. As you can see in the DrMF thread, he would suggest mixing in quite a lot of “Medio”. Who knows what the better concept is. I’ve finally figured it out @sryke . I’ve combined …

[image] CH01: Just ride your bike. :joy: That’s where I was landing too (and would add “reflect on what worked for you”).

[image] CH01: Just ride your bike. The more I learn about training, the more I think this is true. Ride your bike, go hard sometimes, go silly long sometimes, but ride. There are some caveats to it though - you need enough time and a high volume, and you must like to smash yourself sometimes…

[image] splash: The more I learn about training, the more I think this is true. Difficult to commercialise though :grinning:

frequency, consistency, progressive overload. To accomplish this many people need structure. “Just ride your bike” may work for many, especially when early in their “career”. And if you check the boxes on freq, consistency, progressive overload why not. However, “just ride your bike” may prevent yo…

[image] sryke: may prevent you from working on your weaknesses How do you determine what is a weakness?. H

Maybe the liver converts fat into carbohydrate, which is then used by muscle? :innocent:

What was your FTP at the time of this test? This is pretty common among well trained athletes. Also very common is a range of maximal fat oxidation work rate and not a clean, neat peak.

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