I’ve been thinking about combining low volume SS Base 1 with some of Coach Chad’s maintenance suggestions, particularly regarding anaerobic power workouts:
My thinking is that, by weaving in a weekly anaerobic workout, I could get the benefit of the base workouts, plus hang on to some of the anaerobic gains I made last season, thereby moving on to greater heights next season. The only negative I can think of could be plateauing due to prolonged intensity. Has anybody tried this? I’d be interested in hearing others’ opinions, too.
I’ve actually been thinking about this too. I’m doing more gym work during the base period (hypertrophy + maxpower phases spread over SSB and a part of general build), which makes me think that anaerobic/sprint cycling workouts might not be necessary and could even be detrimental. Maybe its better to mix things up and change the way you attack your anaerobic system by doing gym work instead of sprints on the bike. And then leave the actual anaerobic cycling specific workouts for later in the season.
Know this is an old post, but did you try this and did it help anything?
I’m thinking of the same thing now, and wonder if it could help. currently just started a new base phase again with z2 and ss work but thinking if eg 1 anaerobic workout every like 10 days would be beneficial?
I dont have access to Gym / heavy weights but try to perform 2x body weight training per week so not much anaerobic excercise becides this…
How fast do you “loose”/“gain” your anaerobic gains? Time chrunched also, so if it’s rather quickly to develop again, I would rather focus my base on my aerobic engine and not replace a base ride with a z6-7 workout.
