Recent content by _frost

You don't need a trustworthy site. The calculation itself is trivial. Knowing the input variables is the problem. See eg. here for the simplified equation.

Is it too simplistic to think that once done with the weight loss and back in positive/neutral nitrogen balance the lost cardiac mass would be restored with adequate training (and the rate of protein synthesis being great that would even happen relatively quickly)?

Maybe you should have ridden your bike instead of hitting those weights...

Me neither and I can honestly say that I don't know the mechanism (at least a clear one) but it goes without saying that if you keep losing weight even gradually, eventually it will happen. The question is when.

Yes, the first post here. I have posted and read several other forums before so maybe I wasn't thinking too much that there might be rules governing your first post ;). Don't say, it looks like the tone of our conversation is settling at such speed that if it continues like this we soon find...

Two of the most recent: The Biochemical Basis of Sports Performance Ronald J Maughan, Michael Gleeson Physiology of Sport and Exercise Jack H. Wilmore, W. Larry Kenney They were both used and not the latest edition so I got them at very good price, but I don't have the reciept from Amazon...

Yes, exactly as I said, it doesn't make much difference. Edit: had a wrong value of 21,3kJ in the original post. That was a typo, sorry.

If this really bothers you this much, I am 41 yo masters racer whose biggest investment to cycling is a couple of Cervelos and most remarkable financial connection is that a good friend of mine has a bike shop where I can get a good discounts. I work in a software company where my business...

Minor details but based on effort lengths I would assume RER >= 1 giving energy equivalence of 21300 j/L VO2. Eg. http://colinst.com/equations.pdf

Perhaps I should have been more explicit saying that I have seen 85-90% of VO2Max quoted as the maximum level that can be sustained and knowing that due to VO2 drift the VO2 in later stages of prolonged effort is lower than actual VO2Max I was wondering if the 85-90% refers to that or the actual...

So if I understand this right saying that international level FTP being at 85-90% of VO2Max indeed refers to VO2Max not the "drifted" VO2 during longer effort?

I am not, I have never met and I have absolutely no connection to Krebs Cycle. If I have understood it correctly he is from Australia which could not be very much further from me. I am from Finland as my forum profile says. I don't have any particular reason to hide my identity but it would...

This is obivously very important question. I would assume at least the first studies behind formulating the equation have been cross sectional. Anyway thanks a lot for 'Dear Wiggo' to come up with this! I have several times asked an honest question (since I am also just another bloke who rides...

Well, the energy production processes are quite basic, aerobic/anaerobic energy production and oxygen deficiency are one of the first things that you learn in eg. coaching courses. I have learned about cellular energy production at high school biology. Perhaps there are differences in levels...

I don't know who is "we" but for anyone who understands the basics of human physiology that is quite obvious.