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daniel.p.armstrong on February 16, 2021 at 3:18 pm · in reply to: Heart Rate Drift Test Questions #50921

I’m not sure how to share a workout link on the mobile app. I will try again in the morning on my PC.

Can you not access the workout files I attached to the original post?

I did a 15 minute warm up at easy pace to the track. Did not do a warm up to stabilise heart rate at the higher pace before starting the test.

So wondering if the initial drift observed is just my heart rate stabilising

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daniel.p.armstrong on February 16, 2021 at 12:53 pm · in reply to: Heart Rate Drift Test Questions #50914

Or I suppose another option is acute muscular fatigue as that might incude immediate drift as muscles fatigue and economy drops/oxygen demand increases then stabalise at a steady aerobic effort. I do have fairly weak legs barely getting through the stage 1 strength assessment in TftUA

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daniel.p.armstrong on May 31, 2020 at 12:33 pm · in reply to: ADS training, volume, fatigue and core work #42246

Thanks Scott,

I am aiming for 175 as my anerobic threshold is way up just above 190 I Did this test over a 6k, 1000 meter hill climb and it took just under an hour and 190 was my average heart rate. So low to mid 170’s is the target.

When I was doing workouts I would often see my max heart rate as 205+ towards the end so an AnT of 190 doesn’t seem suspect to me. As another point, I did a hill race with about 35 minutes climbing and my average for that was 193 BPM after it had climbed to a steady state. All of these were done with a heart rate strap

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daniel.p.armstrong on May 11, 2020 at 9:45 am · in reply to: How often to test AeT #41535

Thanks Scott, I’ll test whenever I see noticeable gains over several runs on the same week then.

Think of maxVO2 as your maximum aerobic power. Aerobic power is a measure the maximum amount of oxygen your body can take in and utilize for work within a short period of time (even elites can’t maintain maxVO2 for more than a minute or two before being forced to slow due to fatigue.

From this it seems that even if you have crap aerobic capacity and a corresponding lack of aerobic enzymes, it is possible for your body to utilise large amounts of oxygen, just not for long periods of time?

I’m partially basing my question about aerobic capacity and VO2max on this report by Alan Couzens

How ‘Trainable’ Is VO2 Max Really? – A Case Study

He reports large increases in VO2max in an individual who had a large training history of high intensity intervals. Reading the case report it sounds like the guy had ADS and simply made gains by correcting it. What are you thoughts on that? Have you seen increases in VO2max from people correcting ADS?

I am not asking from a performance perspective, – I know other things are more important, just trying to wrap my head around it all. Are there any particularly good books that you’ve read on this sort of subject.

Again, thanks for your time!

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daniel.p.armstrong on March 29, 2020 at 2:14 pm · in reply to: Yet another ADS/mountain endurance question #39967

Thanks Scott!

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daniel.p.armstrong on February 27, 2020 at 12:48 pm · in reply to: ADS 9 weeks out from a 50 miler #38916

Thanks for the reply Alison! I will keep up hill sprints with significant rest between reps. Strength training wise, i imagine the long high intensity leg ME workouts are out of the question? With workouts at or below AeT, is it worth popping over threshold for a few minutes in a workout with the benefit of spending the rest of it closer to the threshold than if I played it safe and stuck below the threshold all the time?

One more question if you don’t mind. I appreciate you may not have this information to hand + it varies athlete to athlete, but what range of % improvement do you usually see with athletes correcting ADS? A futher test today seems to have pinned my AeT at ~130 BPM I obviously have quite far/long to go to bring my AeT within 10% of my Anerobic Threshold (175-180 BPM) but for motivation purposes as I plod along it id be nice to havee a rough idea of the range of gains I might see.
Cheers!