Wanted to take a min to show you what some of the tweaks you
can make in training can do to effect results.
This is an athlete that is performing at a high level in
both bike and run but the principals could be applied for many levels. Too
often athletes train every zone too hard. It’s easy to understand the reason
and logic behind why they do that. They assume if they work really hard they should
get results, and they do! Sometimes though results that they didn’t want.
Last year with this athlete we spent a lot of time building
strength and really pushing their ability to hold higher wattage for longer
periods of time. The issue though is we wanted to raise high end output this
year to a new level. We decided to take a risk and significantly back off the
intensity on the longer days trying to save energy for the shorter days. It seems
to be working perfectly!
Check out these charts below to see the progress graphically
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