Thats an interesting thought. Is volume at altitude more effective?
Sounds interesting.
Might that be due to the fact that their aerobic base has already been built so much during all the years in the sport that putting in insane amounts of hours for marginal gains is simply not worth it?
So they instead focus on doing “maintenance” work to keep what they have and do high(er) intensity efforts to build the top end?
I think the pyramidal approach is just unnecessary. Look at athletes the van der Poel, pidcock, or WVA. They race competitively year round. Adequate rest is all that’s required to continually improve.
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These La values, great vid
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McNulty back in training. Easy/recovery days, right at AeT days and … shocker … he even goes into no man’s land/black hole/boy-you-overtrain territory, the evil of all training zones: tempo! What is ISM telling this boy!
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I’ve had this on my to-do list for quite a while. Just added the power distribution to my charts. McNulty November, ISM textbook style base period implementation. What can’t be seen, those shorter tempo efforts are low cadence work.
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These histos allow such a better understanding of how these guys train. Dec/Jan 20/21 of Sonny Colbrelli. Stellar season. I’d say his real training started mid Dec. And once again plenty around these magic 300W.
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His january sessions look like spring classics races. A lot of hard work. Quite different from ISM approach.
That was a hell of a January block. Hard to imagine that anyone wouldn’t come out swinging from that if you survive it.
Robert Gesink, Team JV, GC domestique
Andorra based, base period, Dec 2020. Watts are even higher at sea level. Once again, training pretty much in upper Z2.
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and March brings plenty of racing
summary:
Dec: plenty of upper Z2
Jan: plenty of upper Z2
Feb: plenty of upper Z2 + sub-/threshold
Mar: two shorter stage races
traditional linear periodisation until race season messes everything up
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Joe Dombrowski, Nov 2021
First half of Nov peak in lower Z2. Picked it up slightly in the second half, peak moved slightly up. Additionally some tempo/sub-threshold work
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Does van Aert post power on strava? Seems to be on a roll, 7 wins out of 7 cross races. Would be interesting to get a glimpse of his autumn.
No, he does not post any power data.
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He’s a machine when it comes to power targets. Extremely impressive.