Originally Posted by
RomansFiveEight
Just food for thought. YMMV. I could be wrong; but I've never read a well-received, peer-reviewed expert in the field suggest 'push to fail'. But many of them have specifically, intentionally, and sometimes even angrily/vehemently suggested that such a process will get you nowhere fast. You'll improve, but not NEARLY as fast as those keeping a good pace and focusing on active recovery. Pushing to almost fail.
See maximum aerobic power (MAP) testing protocol. After a suitable warm up, you start at 200w and increase by 25w each minute, until failure.
http://www.canadian-cycling.com/cca/...otocolMAPe.pdf
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Now keep in mind that this is a testing protocol to set and adjust training levels; it's only part of a training program and not a program itself. Of course an effort like this is going to have a pretty significant training stress that needs to be accounted for.