Time to revisit the altitude question I am afraid. Some time ago I created a post here about this subject. Now I have to do this again with a new twist: long term effects of living/training/riding at altitude. Guess I know a lot more about my FTP + power concepts (TSS, IF, NP, yadda yadda) too so I have more specific questions.Let's start with the basics: present altitude = sea level, new altitude as of next month = 1750m, length of stay is > 1 year
I did this before once for a few weeks and I was gasping like a couch potato almost the entire time I was there it seemed! Plus it sure felt like I got sore easily and stayed that way for hella longer than I do here.
There are the questions I wish to ask of the readers please:
I did this before once for a few weeks and I was gasping like a couch potato almost the entire time I was there it seemed! Plus it sure felt like I got sore easily and stayed that way for hella longer than I do here.
There are the questions I wish to ask of the readers please:
- If you were moving from 0 to 1750m in 4 weeks, would you do anything different/unusual with your current sea level training mix and regimen???? Build CTL as high as possible? Lots of level 5 workouts? Avoid level 5 workouts?? Anything come to mind?
- Now once you start living at 1750m, would you emphasize anything special in the training mix?
- Vo2max is lowerer at altitude because of less oxygen, so you workout at a relatively lower intensity. Does that mean you ought to due more level 5 (or 6) work to raise the absolute intensity + trying to boost vo2max?
- I read about the live high-train low idea. Sounds great in theory but not so easy in real life. What kind of difference in altitude would you need betwen the live high part and the train low part to achieve some benefit? Would traveling somewhere lower every so often and doing a Level 5 or 4 workout do the trick??
- Also read that lean muscle mass decreases when you live high. I know, I know, weights don't make you faster on a bike (for enduro stuff). But does that change if you are living at 1700, 1800m and trying to preserve your lean muscle mass???
- Should you expect to have to lower CTL since recovery feels so slow at altitude? Or maintain a lower CTL? Does that make sense? I know FTP is gonna have to be lowered by some amount right off the bat.
- Bummed about watching my figures go backwards Living up high + racing locally, can you expect racers to have lower w/kg than the power profile charts from the book say?