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geltzeiler on August 3, 2018 at 8:11 pm · in reply to: Aerobic Base and ME workouts #11025

Thanks for the reply! I’m in no way trying to avoid long workouts. I routinely get out for long days in the mountains (4-6k elevation foot climbs of the volcanoesin OR). My issue is how actually about making my mid-week workouts longer. I can run for 1.5hrs but after that my knees start to hurt. If I run, I can do 10+ miles on rolling terrain or climb 1500 foot hills in Portland but then half the time is spent descending. However, while on the stairmaster, I can do a full 2 hours of all climbing (but not “against gravity”).

Anyway, I think that I just need more weight for ME. With a 45lb pack, the rate limiter is HR not leg strength, so I guess those workouts are base workouts. If I put 60 or so in the pack, I think my legs would be limited more ME.

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geltzeiler on January 23, 2018 at 7:49 am · in reply to: Training Peaks Tweaks #7736

Pete. Thank you so much! That pretty much answers questions 1 and 2. I assume then, by the answer given, if I need to do my ME workouts on a stairmaster I should base the TSS on the time it takes to recover… correct? Estimating the amount of vertical on a machine seems less ideal to me.

Also, if anyone has any additional info on the aerobic decoupling question, that’d be greatly appreciated.

thanks again so much!

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geltzeiler on September 9, 2017 at 11:20 am · in reply to: Ski Mountaineering #6033

Scott,
Thanks so much for the reply. Very much looking forward to the ski alpinism training plan. As I am currently starting up my transition period, for now per your advice, I think I will do two days a week of long zone one aerobic base work, two days a week general strength training for the transition period, one long “outing” each weekend and finally one day of legblasters with Vsum bouldering. I was thinking like five sets moving directly from the leg work to the climbing. This will be how I utilize my zone 2-3 time, with climbing and skiing exercises in a specific fashion without detracting from my aerobic base and endurance work. Does that seem reasonable?

Thanks again for all your help.

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geltzeiler on September 5, 2017 at 3:12 pm · in reply to: Ski Mountaineering #6000

This is exactly my concern as well. I think doing exercises like leg blasters, box jumps, shuttle runs and other plymometrics would help, but I’m not sure how to integrate them into a training plan. Any help would be great. Thanks!