After spending 8 weeks of Aerobic Base and VO2max to work on my physiological limiter of peripheral muscle Aerobic adaptation, I transitioned into Sweet Spot Training (SST) to continue to push my FTP up from below. I'm writing this with a week and a half still to go of Sweet Spot. This can be considered a follow … Continue reading 2017 Training Part 4 – Sweet Spot →

I actually completely forgot I wrote a post on Polarized Base last year, as I understood it at the time. I'd probably like to go back and change a few things, but it's a good starting point to understand the theory. For the last two years I followed a more time-constrained Sweet Spot Base training … Continue reading 2017 Training Plan Part 2 – Aerobic Base →

This winter I introduced a standardized warm-up to my indoor training rides and eventually, as the plan goes, to my outdoor races as well. It's a quick 20-minute ramping effort with 1-minute high-cadence (>120 rpm) intervals and a 3-min @ Threshold interval. I use my warm-up to gauge how fresh or fatigued I am, using HR … Continue reading Standardized Warm-up →