More Short Term Muscular
Endurance training. This session designed to give a long effort in zone 4
crossing over into zone 5.
Warm up was a 20 minute routine as practiced by British
Cycling.
Time
|
Cadence (RPM)
|
Instruction/Focus
|
5 minutes
|
90
|
Smooth pedalling
|
2 minutes
|
95
|
Smooth pedalling
|
2 minutes
|
100
|
Smooth pedalling
|
2 minutes
|
105
|
Smooth pedalling
|
1 minute
|
110
|
Smooth pedalling
|
30 seconds
|
120-130
|
Maintain form
|
2 minutes
|
90
|
Relax and recover
|
6 seconds
|
150+
|
Max rev out
|
1 minute
|
90
|
Smooth pedalling
|
6 seconds
|
150+
|
Max rev out
|
1 minute
|
90
|
Smooth pedalling
|
6 seconds
|
150+
|
Max rev out
|
2 minutes 42 seconds
|
90
|
Relax and recover
|
The main set an hour of progressively harder efforts.
Aim was to complete the warm up at the bottom of heart rate
zone 3, the intervals 2 gears harder to push you into zone 4 and the very end
on the long intervals to cross LTHR into the bottom of zone 5.
Stage
|
Task
|
Example Gear
|
HR relative to
LTHR
|
1
|
4 minutes baseline gear, 90-100
RPM
Zone 3
|
53/21
|
-10 to -20
|
2
|
3 minutes harder gear, 90-100 RPM – remember the gear – baseline plus
2
Zone 4
|
53/19
|
0-10
|
3
|
2 minutes 1 gear harder
|
|
|
4
|
1 minute1 1 gear harder
|
|
|
5
|
30 seconds sprint 1 gear harder
|
|
|
6
|
2 mins zone 2 recovery
|
|
|
|
5 repeats of stage 1 to 6
|
53/23
|
-20 to -40
|
Note, this is a hard session, if it’s too hard make stage 6
a longer recovery and reduce sets to 4. Or at stages 4 and 5 stay in zone 4 or
start recovery earlier.
Followed by a 10 minute warm down and stretch.
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