The topic says it all. I’m considering starting my season after a block of gym and easy rides with a pure vo2 block. 6 weeks, 2 on-1 rest, 2 workouts a week. After that, a 8-week SST getting into FTP, working on TTE and the regular progression with a vo2 every once in a while for maintenance. Am …

1st they’re short, 45min and I’m done. I’ll be limited in time and weather. Can go outside only about April. I should add, I don’t like indoor training. I’ll do fatbike, but it’s hard to rely only on a fatbike for base. There’s still the time issue. 2nd, never done it, I’d like to see what would be…

Definitely wouldn’t recommend a VO2 block in that case. I’m in the same boat regarding weather - we’re holding onto the last bits of warmth, and I probably have less than a week of comfortable road riding, and a month of gravel riding, before switching to trainer and eventually adding fat biking. Y…

This is commonly referred to as “reverse periodization”. Focus on short, high intensity efforts over the winter to increase VO2 and then add in mileage and endurance once the weather warms up. It can be a sound strategy for long, endurance events. The idea is that you add more specificity in your w…

It was brought up by my coach last year. Start intense, and short, as you don’t like indoor, do some fatbike as endurance, and build endurance once you can go outside.

Exactly the same boat. The weather isn’t bad, it’s doable until November - really cold, but doable. The problem is that there’s no daylight, so I’m restricted to weekends. Well, the reason is: I’ll start studying for a CPA certification, I have my daughter in shared custody week on week off, so I w…

Joe Friel and many other coaches nowadays recommend a VO2 workout every 7 to 10 days when you reach the age of 50 and beyond. All year round. VO2 max, a measure of cardiorespiratory fitness, is a strong predictor of longevity and can help assess the risk of early death from illnesses like heart dis…

4 weeks out of 5 doing VO2s might be a reach if you’re doing them all out / max repeatable (as you very probably should be) You might be better served doing 3 per week for three weeks - while being prepared to bail out early in week 3 if you need to.

Even though I have no major time constraints, and I enjoy indoor interval workouts (but not the endurance ones, hell no), I’ve been thinking a lot about trying the reverse periodization approach for the next season. I just feel like this concept will work well for me. Will it, though? I don’t know. …

[image] AlexMartins: It was brought up by my coach last year. Start intense, and short, as you don’t like indoor, do some fatbike as endurance, and build endurance once you can go outside. I’m actually flirting with the same idea and today I actually found this from Friel 2013. Rev…

Starting the season with a Vo2 block - is it a good idea?

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The biggest question is the reason for a VO2 block in the first place.

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Starting the season with a Vo2 block - is it a good idea?

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