Vo2Max intervals erg as written or resistance and hammer

[mattonabike]

@jarsson

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I am asking more so for the shorter stuff 30/15 30/30 etc where I never really feel like i am a fish out of water.

This is quite separate issue from erg/resistance debate. For example I have poor under 1min power and there’s no way I would feel during intermittent intervals like during long vo2 max intervals. HR is elevated but breathing is not there - even when doing 15min long sets. And this is very common for many people with them. On the other hand, people with huge anaerobic capacity and short power can burry themselves doing 2-3 short bouts.

Can we talk a bit more about this part of it. I see now it was not clear in my question but this was more what I was hoping to understand. If i use erg i am going to be locked into the 120% or whatever. For plenty of workouts that is too easy, but if i turn up the % the rests are not rest. I was trying to get a feel for how many people ignore the % for these types of intervals and just go as hard as they think they can for a given time and number of sets.