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Then train and act like pro-riders
No serious, if you concentrate for many years on longtime-trainings, your VO2max will increase, and the longer you stay in your aerobic zone, by which your amount of lactate will be less.
I don't know if that means that your max lactate rate will decrease though..
No serious, if you concentrate for many years on longtime-trainings, your VO2max will increase, and the longer you stay in your aerobic zone, by which your amount of lactate will be less.
I don't know if that means that your max lactate rate will decrease though..
"It's always your legs that count, but WW bikes make strong legs last longer!"
you are refering to this right?
I think they mean that pros have a lower rate of building up lactic acid, once they go past their treshold, so that the muscles don't "fill up" as fast.
I had never heard of it before, and it's really interesting. They feature some really big names, and I'm not meaning to bash them or anything, but, according to their philosophy, could anything but VLAmax be your biggest weakness?
They really sent you home without any advice? You paid them lots of money.
I think they mean that pros have a lower rate of building up lactic acid, once they go past their treshold, so that the muscles don't "fill up" as fast.
I had never heard of it before, and it's really interesting. They feature some really big names, and I'm not meaning to bash them or anything, but, according to their philosophy, could anything but VLAmax be your biggest weakness?
They really sent you home without any advice? You paid them lots of money.
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Dülmen wrote:No I did not pay them a lot cause they are one of my sponsors... They did give me advices but I want some specific WKO not just "Do lots of work near your FTP and train G2 with low cadence..."
But that is what you have to do, expect maybe the low-cadence stuff. Germans never seem to get that strength and power are two different things...
John979
If your VOmax is very high, but you produce quite much lactate means you're talent with low fitness Or person with big muscles (bodybuilder moved into cycling or somethin like that) Short distance track cyclist who shuffers in long climbing. Any hits?
VoMax is quite much what's in your DNA. You can get it higher with training, but top athletes are allways sum of good DNA and good training.
If you have big muscles you produce more lactate, more muscles working = more lactate builds (like xc-skiing or rowing).
Fact is that upper level endurance training and time trialing gives you best ability to work harder without too much lactate. Still in typical road race you need ability to attack or close gaps and those are mostly done anaerobic (lactate coming) so you must balance training with anaerobic intervals too. It's a question of balancing speed and endurance. More with speed in one day training and more with endurance in stage racing.
There is no precise way to say what you must do as it depens your training backround, your strenghts and weaknesses overall, your season goals, your several seasons goals.
VoMax is quite much what's in your DNA. You can get it higher with training, but top athletes are allways sum of good DNA and good training.
If you have big muscles you produce more lactate, more muscles working = more lactate builds (like xc-skiing or rowing).
Fact is that upper level endurance training and time trialing gives you best ability to work harder without too much lactate. Still in typical road race you need ability to attack or close gaps and those are mostly done anaerobic (lactate coming) so you must balance training with anaerobic intervals too. It's a question of balancing speed and endurance. More with speed in one day training and more with endurance in stage racing.
There is no precise way to say what you must do as it depens your training backround, your strenghts and weaknesses overall, your season goals, your several seasons goals.
It depends mainly how u train. If u mix your training and u go hard alot too (no really systematic aerobic only sessions), then u train mainly fast twitch muscle fibers. U burn suggar without enough oxygen = lactat.
If u do lots of aerobic training, u train slow twitch muscles and u build up mitochondrias. U burn mainly fat with enough oxygen = very low lactat.
More mitochondrias mean more power. Thats why good riders got a very high poweroutput and still using fat burning process with low lactat.
Sprinters for example can stand high lactat up to 25 mmol.
Look at your poweroutput at Lactat 1, 2 and 3. If the wattage is high and the gap between 1 and 3 is big...u got a good base. If not, train more base.
If its good. Grats ur a natural born sprinter^^.
If u do lots of aerobic training, u train slow twitch muscles and u build up mitochondrias. U burn mainly fat with enough oxygen = very low lactat.
More mitochondrias mean more power. Thats why good riders got a very high poweroutput and still using fat burning process with low lactat.
Sprinters for example can stand high lactat up to 25 mmol.
Look at your poweroutput at Lactat 1, 2 and 3. If the wattage is high and the gap between 1 and 3 is big...u got a good base. If not, train more base.
If its good. Grats ur a natural born sprinter^^.
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VLamax is your maximum glycolytic flux or the maximal use of glycolysis.
The higher this is the more it will over shadow your aerobic capacity at submaximal efforts and hence lower your AT/FTP.
Workouts that have been shown to lower it are long sweetspot/tempo efforts and especially longish efforts in very high gears and low cadence (50-60rpm) at tempo/SS power outputs and no higher.
Hope that helps
bullyboy