Limiting Factors to Endurance at Different Intensities - Page 2

Man, practically every time I read one of your posts I find myself thinking "geez, this guys knows his stuff!" Keep up the good work!

How short ?

ie: no shorter then ....... no longer then ........

if you have already stated this earlier, I missed it.

edd

Yep, you did miss it but this was partly my fault.

Used the term Maximal Aerobic Power (MAP) instead of VO2 max (almost the same). Do intervals between 4 and 10 minutes long riding as hard as you can for the duration.

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I thought as much but I was interested on what you had to say. we are working 4 to 8 minutes for our (MAP)

Unfortunately we don’t have power meters, only HR monitors, but we do have constant resistance loads.

Curious thing, that I thought I’d raise (looking for a scientific perspective)
When we do MSLL (MLSS) training ( we do this for 30 minutes) HR is very close to what we do in the 4 to 8 min blocks some times within only one or two beats, some times even a little higher.

I’m thinking the power generated for each pedal stroke for the 30 minute block is less then the 8 min block. I have no way of testing this.

Maybe this should be in the HR Zone thread, but there is an endurance question in here somewhere too.

Is it possible to fit a formule that gives a general comparation between maximum average power and the time you can hold it? It might be possible to find such a formula to fit a lot of personal records....

With how long cycling can I compare MLSS? 1/2hour or 1 hour?

Have a look at the 'critical power' research. In calculating critical power, people often complete a number of rides at set power outputs and plot these on a graph. Join these dots with a curve and it will give you some idea of how long you can maintain a specific power output for.
Not sure what you mean by this, but depending upon a number of factors MLSS could be maintained for 20 to 60 minutes. The test used to calculate this is usualy based on 3 or more 20 minutes efforts at set power putputs. The testing requires carefully controled conditions (i.e. not a turbo in a shed), a power meter and lactate measurements.

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