Training volume

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For god's sake don't buy anything by Chris Carmichael. Floyd Landis said it best when he said that Carmischael was barely even a coach. There are lots of much better books than the drek from Carmichael. Carmichael is like the Bicylcing magazine of coaches, i.e. low grade crap for the masses.

LMAO! Some of the juniors at my club could personalise a program better than Coach Comical

 

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Don't see how 2hr interval training is going to prepare you for 150km+ touring or racing days.

With the correct base - a lot.

Without it? Stick to crits...

 

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Does anyone win a race in zone 2? IMHO, this kind of training is a vestige of old-school gross hours in the saddle.

This crackpot's view is that your training should be raising the racing failure point, not zone 2 efficiency. This challenge to almost religious beliefs about training can be easily savaged by all kinds of buzzword science. Like I said earlier, I'm not 'right.' I just know that what you described did NOT work for me. And I can't be the only one.

me either. one recovery ride per week with 4 days of intervals and recovery.

after all we are talking about crits at the local level not 3 grand tours. No working man with a mortgage can have the time to recover well with the 100 miles per day type old school base training. most guys I know who log those miles are trust fund or broke impressing each other nothing more

 

[Boeing]

For god's sake don't buy anything by Chris Carmichael. Floyd Landis said it best when he said that Carmischael was barely even a coach. There are lots of much better books than the drek from Carmichael. Carmichael is like the Bicylcing magazine of coaches, i.e. low grade crap for the masses.

chris commical. plagiarizing basic work out sets and interval training and telling us to drink more water. but it sells. why this guy gets the pub he does is beyond me. the is a sock puppet for the front discussed in clinic