Who has incorporated two-a-days into their training?

[sam.fuller1]

@Shrike

Wouldn’t your ability to raise FTP and VO2 numbers be capped ultimately if doing easy workouts in the morning then the hard workouts later as you’re almost always carrying enough fatigue to never really hit those higher numbers?

Thinking about a POL perspective where being fresh and going really hard seems to be king.

I don’t have any science to back this up, but from personal experience doing efforts on the way in makes me tired for the rest of the day and the way home a slog.

The other way around I feel energized during the day and in the right frame of mind on the way home.

Doing FTP or even VO2 work whilst in a slightly fatigued state is gonna cause all sorts of good stuff to happen. It’s the same as doing efforts when 2,000kJ into a ride.

This commute for example featured a 13-14 minute effort @ around best 20 minute power having already ridden 3 hours of endurance (2 hours AM, 1 hour PM) prior to the effort.

Paging @brendanhousler to come through with the science!