Over-Unders vs 30/30s

[mcneese.chad]

A couple of existing discussions. I may merge this one when I have. Items time.

Are over-under workouts suppose to be this hard?

I was cramping pretty badly in my abdomen during the last section of tunemah. Had to close my eyes and let the power fall where it may, that’s how bad I was feeling. Anyways, I finished at 100% TSS. I didn’t fail, but I’m worried how will I be able to complete McAdie +1. Could my FTP be too high? heart rate was 98% of max. Very uncomfortable.

Struggling with over-unders in plan

Hi, I am finishing up SSB1 mid-volume. I have managed all the workouts ok except for the over-unders McAidie, Tunemah, Palisade & McAdie+1. I had either crashed and had to take breaks, or had scale the workout down to 95, 96, 97% etc only managing one or two intervals at the full 100%. I know these are supposed to be hard, but the seemed REALY hard. So my question is would I be better to repeat SSB1 in an effort to get better at this obvious limiter, or just forget about it and move on? My sea…

Over-Unders. Love 'em. Hate 'em

After doing Over-Unders (Palisade) after a break of over a year, I can safely say that this is one type of workout that I have this love/hate relationship with. From my experience, this is sort of thing that I tend to get biggest benefits from, but man… do they hurt! It’s not as much of a physical pain, rather than mental, particularly once you get to the 4th and 5th interval! Curious what others think of these type of workouts. [image]