Pete is back! We discussed who won in a pre-season 10mi TT between Pete and I, our favorite ride “nutrition”, whether recovery drinks are necessary if you are already topped off on carbohydrate, how to recover from overtraining, why stage races may be the best races to start with for beginners and …

Great podcast as usual. Made me want to order (or mix) some recovery drinks. A lot of the premade stuff I stumbled upon seems to have a protein/carb ratio closer to 1:1 or something like that. Anyone knows why? Should I be looking for more carbs/adding them myself or is the ratio not that relevant?

Recovery drinks for swimming too? Calorie burn and impact just seems so little vs 1 hr bike intervals.

Since Nate mentioned the altered Work : Recovery Week ratio, here are the ones I wrote based on his comments about them a long time ago: Alternate Sweet Spot Base, Work : Recovery Week Layout Alternate Build or Specialty, Work : Recovery Week Layout

@Nate_Pearson So after months of waiting for an operation and then 3 months of recovery, I’m starting to ease myself back into training and was really looking forward to starting sweet spot base. I work in a school where some staff have tested positive for covid and in an area of the uk where case…

You’re in a unique situation that I don’t think has been studied. I would go with your doctors advice and just focus on easing back in (if your doctor says it’s OK) and pay tons of attention to RPE. Your top end will probably come down a bunch, but you can hold on to some aerobic gains by doing Z2…

In addition to Nate, I’ll toss in “do short sprints” every so often. Some discussion over here: [image] Z2 and Intense Training - Mixing the best of both worlds, is it too big an ask? Training Probably you know this already but wanted to add this study as it seems not to b…

Tan walls on a black bike for sure!! [image]

I think any level of fitness will be an improvement on where I’m at ! :rofl: :joy:

When I’m able to do max efforts I will: add 6 x30sec max efforts with 3 minutes active rest between, at the beginning of a Z2 work out, for some sessions per week. Thanks @bbarrera

i like this podcast… so i will continue eating like i have been all holiday season… somehow i’ve only gained 5 lbs so far but I’ve given myself an allowance to gain 10lbs by the end of the holidays… lol

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In addition to Nate, I’ll toss in “do short sprints” every so often. Some discussion over here:

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