Saturday, October 17, 2009

Top 10 Things I Will Be Prescribing To Cyclists This Winter

The Careful attention to diet to maintain/decrease non-lean body mass
The determination of FTP
The determination power at VO2max
The determination of AWC
The determination of neuromuscular power
The establishment of a power 'profile'
Skill work in the form of riding pacelines, cornering, echelon, sprinting, touching wheels, bumping
Small doses of structured volume at VO2max every 7-10 days, to maintain VO2max
Sprints each week from a slow roll 'all out' to maintain neuromuscular power
A large volume of training L3/low L4 (SST) to create our desired "Base" (as opposed to LSD)
A large volume of L4/Threshold training during 'base' to increase threshold power

I didn't number them because there are several different orders in which we could arrange them in sequence of importance.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Mike, I don't like the look of that first one. the rest are good.

Mike said...

Dear Anonymous,
Obviously, you can go too far with dropping weight, but dropping non-lean mass can only help you ride faster (except downhill, but you'll already have been dropped). Now, how to drop non-lean, non-power producing mass without dropping the power producing mass? ... therein lies the rub...
M