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  • What type sessions are you lot getting on with for improving sub 5 min power? Mine is really poor. Heavy lifting compound stuff, strength/stability and conditioning style lifting,pylometrics, hill repeats, peak and fade intervals, power ramp intervals, or just steady state vo2 intervals or anything else you like doing to get a bit of extra oomph in the legs? I'm currently about 95% fit and have an important race for me in a month so should be able to get in 10-15 High intensity workouts and a tiny taper by then and I've have had results before on just 2-3 weeks of the really hurty stuff. For your information and amusement my current numbers I'm working from are at 66kg and 40 years old
    10s=15 wkg
    30s=11.6
    1 min=8.48
    2=5.98
    3=5.6
    5=5.3
    20=4.43
    1hr=4.24
    2hr=3.93
    3hr= a theoretical 3.63 wkg
    What kind of pain are you enjoying at the moment?

  • With those numbers, I'd say Vo2/aerobic.
    Compared to @dbr's numbers, you're short power strength is really good, but falls off quite quickly from 1 minute. Though as the data is from hill climbs, and @dbr doesn't favour short sprint climbs, maybe the 30s and 60s powers are not peak power?

    You're probably able to tap into a decent amount of anaerobic power to boost your 2/3 power, but 5 minutes is mostly aerobic.

    I can burn my legs up with lactic up to about 2m, but power drops fast after that.

    Quite similar to mine.
    5s = 20.4wkg
    10s= 16.6wkg
    30s= 12.2wkg
    1m = 9.2wkg
    2m = 7.5wkg
    3m = 6.3wkg
    5m = 5.5wkg

  • Quite close to mine;
    FTP 292 on turbo @ 76kg

    Outside power curve;
    10s = 1024 for 13.47
    20s = 936 for 12.32
    30s = 823 for 10.83
    1m = 680 for 8.95
    2m = 573 for 7.54
    3m = 531 for 6.99
    5m = 437 for 5.75

    As documented I’ve struggled to replicate this in races. Whether that’s lack of familiarity with hills or going a bit gun shy for fear of blowing up I can’t quite work out.

  • With those numbers have you ever tried going for long one like emptying the tank with 1km to 1 mile to go has that ever worked out for you? Do you have any go to sessions for your good 1-3 min power? Or are you just built that way I'm 5"10 and 66kg and not sure i even own a fast twitch muscle fibre at the moment

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