Lorichka6:
Just curious about thoughts on “controlled VO2 efforts” vs “all out” efforts. My former coach always programmed VO2 as “hard as you can for X minutes” rest as long as you need. Usually ~7 efforts and I’d take 8-10 minutes between them. The power target TR is giving me is much lower (110-120% FTP) but the rest is 3 minutes. Just curious about the logic behind one vs the other. Just for numbers, FTP last summer was probably 215ish and I would do 2 minutes at ~300 at my fittest. Now TR (with FTP of ~205) is giving me a goal of 245 but with 3 minutes rest. This is only my second VO2 workout on TR and last week’s had 5 minute rest intervals, a little nervous to drop 2 minutes for each recovery
These may both be classified as “VO2” but are really two different workouts with different goals. @kurt.braeckel has some great posts in the VO2 block thread.
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