View Single Post
Old 03-07-08, 03:00 PM
  #9  
Nickel
Splicer of Molecules
 
Nickel's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: A less cold place
Posts: 1,723

Bikes: Giant

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
I was looking over stuff for tempo and LT training as it's starting to get to be that time of year and I stumbled across this book and passage that said that too many cyclists spend too much time in this zone.

I am under the impression that riding tempo (zone 3, 10bp under LT HR) was worked up to doing 1-1.5hrs. I understand that LT training (up to 1hr), VO2 max intervals (3-8min) and anaerobic intervals (30sec -3min) are important but came after the tempo foundation was built/being built (as a new racer). I can understand that only doing z3 would be detrimental to gains, so I was wondering if that was what the book is referring to?
Nickel is offline