Recent content by bbrauer

Yeah, a little esoteric, but I know there are a few lurking that know what I'm talking about. I work with power with my clients, and work with a partner who tests VO2 max. I'd like to add mechanical efficiency and delta efficiency to the metrics that are tested and measured. VO2 max, on...

Boy! I'd have to rate that post as about an 8-10 on the Borg Scale of Perceived Condescension. I'm sure you're a fine coach, and by all means continue practicing a system that works for your athletes, but I've found that these types of internet arguments are less an endeavor in knowledge...

Disagree. There's indeed a benefit to having overall strength and balance throughout the kinetic chain. Everyone, regardless of whether they're cyclists or not, should be working to maintain functional strength and correcting muscle imbalances and postural abnormalities. Another factor...

I remember when this place was almost a ghost town invaded by spam bots. I'm liking the new forum software and I'm venturing out from the power training forum, but I'm trying to find the display settings that allow me to view the thread in hybrid form. Any help?

I think that reasoning has been taken to the extreme. It's just simply counter intuitive and is counter to nearly every known real world example. If a track sprinter's discipline places an emphasis on maximum force generation, then he needs the muscle cross section, actin/myosin bridges and...

I've done longer tours with front bags and also had my touring bike set up as a "heavy bike" training mule with sand bags as weights in the front and rear. I don't really mind the slower steering with weight up front if I'm using lowrider racks. It's more important that you have the weight...

It was fine the other day when I downloaded a file. I double checked that the right USB port was chosen. It's sometimes finicky about loading WKO then connecting the computer to the cradle, but I checked that. Was wondering if the cradle is going bad, but I just tried a download with my...

Not contesting....and I agree with you, and find Lemond's idea of using power improvement as a way to red flag potential cheaters as flawed for this reason, as well as a host of others.

Bummer! Apparently I need the new version of WKO to read the file.

Who is responsible for that 6.4 W/Kg 1 hour effort? Boardman? One of Lemond's arguments is that the levels of performance of top level cyclists exceed the highest theoretical VO2 max levels that a human can achieve. I don't know that he's enough of an authority in exercise physiology to say...

Nice work. One question: when you describe you interval sessions as, say for example, 4x2x2, what does the last digit represent? I'm assuming sets, but maybe rest interval....not sure. 320 FTP.....what's your weight?

Yeah....level 7 is your all-out sprint not really lasting more than 15 seconds. You tested for your max heart rate to use that number as a reference point. Most HR based zone plans use max HR as the reference. Now you need to test for your FTP. Find that and get a number, then you can make...

This had me thinking about a local off-road climb I've been doing for years (Harding Truck Trail...it just re-opened after being closed due to fires). My best time is 1:01, and obviously I'd like to break the 1 hour mark. Aside from a "fudge factor" for off-road rolling resistance, what's a...

Ah.... arguing on the internet. Shall we just get out the tape measures and the dirty magazines now, or posture some more? ...which is why I don't constantly look at it. When it's particularly stochastic based on terrain, the moment by moment information it gives you is pretty meaningless...

Although I think Mitosis chooses the wrong words when he describes "immediate feedback", but I understand what he's trying to say and it has merit to some degree. I think the continued value of using HR for certain applications is precisely because its feedback is not immediate....at least it...