Originally Posted by
burnthesheep
Another VO2 workout last night. Gosh they're awful. Trying to do 3 this week. 21min of work in the first one doing 5min reps. 26:40 of work this second one doing 3min reps with 2min rest in 3 rep sets. Three sets. Geez.
Last rep of that one on the last minute I had to get out of saddle and snagged the power cord for the trainer. Suddenly zero output, WTF! Oh well. Got most of it in.
So I'm told I have to do this to raise the ceiling on my fitness so it can move up again. Or all that sweetspot and other work may reach a stopping point.
Three VO2 max workouts in a week, yeesh. I aim for a similar amount of time in zone and am currently only doing them 1x/week. On the trainer too! I've produced some decent VO2 efforts in Watopia going for Titan's and the like, but man that sounds tough. Are you doing erg mode? TR? Free riding in Zwift? Do you adjust power relative to what you'd do outside?
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