There’s a follow up podcast with Iñigo San Millán, interviewed by Peter Attia. I know the first one has already been discussed here and I found that one very interesting. This is the link: #201 - Deep dive back into Zone 2 | Iñigo San-Millán, Ph.D. (Pt. 2) - Peter Attia I’m only at the very beginni…

Sadly, the last three weeks haven’t been good with McN. Apparently got this special peloton bug. Tried training again. Got this bug or a similar bug again. Desaster. [grafik]

Covid? Good for the likes of us if he can still maintain 7hrs :man_shrugging:. Then again he doesn’t have to do anything other than that so can still get the rest in instead.

[image] AJS914: I came to the conclusion that no amount of training could turn me into an elite. I came to this conclusion because I’d see the occasional newbie start racing with us (cat 4) and then blow through cat 3 up to cat 2 in one season. Did he have special training? No. I see a lot of…

According to the Strava comments it’s more that he tried training again but had to stop. So it’s not maintenance.

[image] Aplcr0331: Then he goes outside on some POS hand me down Fuji road bike to do “intervals” on a local climb. He did 5-6 intervals in March and each interval was in the top 10 for that segment and his fastest interval was like 2nd or 3rd. I hate him. :joy: Yep

[image] [image] Calculating LT1 and LT2 approximately without a blood test? Training [image] [image] [image] [image] Source:

Actually, I think knowing your approx w/kg at VT1/LT1 is a useful metric. 3w/kg at VT1/LT1 would be a good benchmark for an amateur cyclist. Depending on your efficiency at this power, that’s around 4w/kg at FTP. However, that’s only at 75% FTP. With solid base training, it’s possible to get this p…

[image] TheBandit: 3w/kg at VT1/LT1 would be a good benchmark for an amateur cyclist. Maybe if you are 25 or maybe if you are 145 pounds like Peter Attia. Otherwise, you have large segments of riders, especially older riders, that won’t get to 3W/kg for even FTP.

[image] AJS914: you have large segments of riders, especially older riders, that won’t get to 3W/kg for even FTP. @AJS914 not going after your thoughts here specially because I think that feeling you express is pretty common. 3wkg is obtainable by the vast majority of otherwise healthy people…

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