Originally Posted by DrWJODonnell
the idea is that you don't go MAX effort all the time but MAX for the time period. In other words, for the 3 minute effort you don't go CP1 or you blow up. Instead you try for a new personal best CP3. So your power output for the 45 second interval will not be the same as the power for the 15 second interval, but it will be the most you could possibly do.
Ok this makes sense. I dont know why I could not grasp that before. So basically for the 1 minute interval I would strive to top my 1 minute power and so on?