I’m with you there as my LTHR is right at 90% of HRmax. So when I hear coaches throw around the “aim for 15-20min” at 90% HRmax or greater I can do that all day long if I’m doing a VO2max session. Here’s a 5x5 session from Thursday that puts me at almost 30 minutes of time at 90% of HRmax. I highly doubt I collected that amount of time within 95% of VO2max though.
This is why I just use heart rate as a marker of whether or not something is off. As in, I’m doing 5-min intervals at 118% of FTP, but my heart rate is only hitting LTHR then I know something is off. But as long as I’m making the power and my breathing is labored I’m good to go.
Not real rested. Yesterdag 86km with 1300hm and 6min all out. Breathing like a fish on the dry. Breathing starts after 30s in the block.
Kolie talk about in the webinar is that vo2max breathing and HR is more important than power. For example after 4 blocks. The 5 block due fatique you dont reach vo2max power anymore, but your HR and breathing is the same as vo2max looks like.
But WKO5 base VO2max work on power, but vo2max is cardiovasculair and not power based. KM talk about in some webinars and say VO2max is breathing and HR. High cadans will give a lower power, but you reach more central adapation…
Heartrate above 90% of HRmax, high RPM and breathing like a fish. But WKO5 (based on power) will say not more than 85% VO2max…
Yes, but the TR guys said somewhere that the levels aren’t generated right for custom workouts.
(I think they mean, they have checked the auto-generated levels of their workouts, but they haven’t got round to / don’t want to looked at the custom workouts)
…I find the whole “levels over 10” thing is a bit nuts tbh. What’s the point of creating a new scale if you immediatly break it?
Interesting you can see the levels for those. I’ve got very similar ones from one of the SS Progression Teams and none show any level.
(I know the levels of the custom workouts don’t scale directly - see some of the 20+ jobbers - but I think that long sweet spot would actually scale well and as long as you aren’t taking it too literally you can get a gauge of what the SS level is vs a Wright’s Peak etc)
Haha, but there it just goes to 11 by default, that is fine. What I have issues with is saying there are levels 1-10, and then immediatly have some over that.
I do understand where the problem is - to scale the workouts appropriatly, you sort of need to know what the maximum is, and that is impossible when anyone can just come and make their own workout. However, they could have scaled them and then sqaushed the scale with a logarithm or something.
looks like you’re on the mobile app - have you forced the update of it? For some reason my Android app didnt auto update and I had to manually do it, and then I saw the progression levels.
Sorry, couldn’t help myself
. Thanks though.