30 second intervals - Page 14

Hey, I've already done it for 20 min and only took a break 'cause I got tired of hitting the up and down button. But if you want me to do it for 1 h, I can...

You mean oxygen deficit (but you probably don't understand the physiology of exercise to realize it).

Do the words "creatine phosphate" and "temporal buffer" mean anything to you, Warren?

...which is precisely my point.

Silly me. Debt, deficit, close enough. Either way it has to be repaid somehow, which is one of the reasons you can't just look at a microinterval session in terms of the average power as you did in this discussion and the previous discussion about 30/30's for VO2max training. And another reason you should not evaluate micro-intervals based only on their average power...


Originally Posted by WarrenG
the microintervals include some neuromuscular stress not found in the continous power intervals.


You're the one that tried to equate microintervals and steady-state based on the average power of the mi's, not me. I know some differences so I would not equate them.

Hardly.

...except, of course, from a metabolic and cardiovascular perspective, as shown in a number of published studies, e.g.:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_docsum

...which in turn comes back to the role played by phosphocreatine as a temporal buffer, as I mentioned before.

What I said was "...the strain on the neuromuscular system is determined by the maximal power, whereas the strain on the cardiovascular and metabolic systems is determined by the average power."