I have an elite athlete that I coach that when doing a routine 3 x 20 L4 session is doing something akin to micro rests during the latter intervals. This looks like 10-12 short (around 6-12 secs) periods of coasting prior to ramping it up again. Effectively these become more prevalent in the later intervals (presumably as he fatigues) and the interval therefore has a higher VI. Average power might drop from 331w to 318w for almost the same NP.
Has anybody come across this or experienced it before ? If it was simply fatigue then I would expect to see a drop off in both AP & NP as time passes - rather than a higher VI ?
Has anybody come across this or experienced it before ? If it was simply fatigue then I would expect to see a drop off in both AP & NP as time passes - rather than a higher VI ?