Developing your VO2max is a key physiological variable that will determine your capability to perform well in aerobic orientated events. Boosting your VO2max will pay dividends to all cyclists, particularly road cyclists and mountain bikers, but also short course triathletes.
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Riding at a sustained pace below your Threshold is referred to as Tempo training. This session builds 36 minutes of riding at your Tempo intensity into it. This is great for triathletes, especially long course athletes, but also road cyclists and mountain bikers who intend to ride solo to victory.
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Low cadence efforts develop muscular force within the muscle fibres. Tempo training is a great training tool and when done at a low cadence will help build strength. This type of training will benefit longer more sustained efforts road cyclists that will attempt to break away for a solo ride to victory, half Ironman and Ironman distance athletes, as well as Mountain Bikers doing longer events.
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This session develops Anaerobic Power to assist with you breaking away, whether on a hill or punching it solo on the flat. The high intensity efforts will deplete the Anaerobic energy system and force you to really suffer at the end, but this suffering is what will generate the bodies improvement and can’t be generated by missing the early efforts in the workout. This session will help you develop that and is great for all cyclists including triathletes (especially draft legal athletes) and mountain bikers.
View More Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: 2020 Zwift Academy Anaerobic Depletion
This is a solid session that really taxes your VO2 Max system. Within this session the duration of your reps builds testing you for long as you work through the session. This session will help you develop that and is great for all cyclists including triathletes (especially draft legal athletes) and mountain bikers.
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Sprinting generates a large amount of power and uses different energy pathways from longer duration efforts. Within this session there is a broad range of intensities involved that lead to the higher intensity efforts. This session will help you develop that and is great for all cyclists including triathletes (especially draft legal athletes) and mountain bikers.
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As the saying goes “there are many ways to skin a cat” *. Instead of doing longer intervals at your Threshold pace, in this workout you will prime your lactate acid system first by doing an anaerobic effort prior to five minutes riding at your Threshold intensity. This session will help you develop that and is great for all cyclists including triathletes (especially draft legal athletes) and mountain bikers.
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Anaerobic Power is your ability to maximise power for short durations. This is achieved in this workout with quality rest prior to giving it absolutely everything you’ve got. If you aren’t well rested you won’t maximise your effort as high as possible. This session will help you develop that and is great for all cyclists including triathletes (especially draft legal athletes) and mountain bikers.
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Your VO2 will determine your ability to both suffer and also recover qwikly. Within this session you will put yourself firmly in the hurt box and then recover and see what your capability is with a short but hard set of intervals after a recovery period. This session will help you develop that and is great for all cyclists including triathletes (especially draft legal athletes) and mountain bikers.
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