Thanks Mark – that’s about 6 hours of Z2/week which would seem achievable. Is there any benefit in splitting that into 6 x 1 hr sessions vs 3 x 2 hour sessions. Thinking about plugging some of the longer unweighted Z2 runs back into the training as missed those too 🙂
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Participantmattmay3s on May 4, 2022 at 8:57 am · in reply to: Post Exped recovery and maintenance Training #66545Participantmattmay3s on April 30, 2022 at 10:16 am · in reply to: Post Exped recovery and maintenance Training #66412
Thanks Nate
ParticipantThanks Both
@mark – post exped beers always the most dangerous part. Lost 24 hours of my life in Lukla celebrating with the Sherpa crewParticipantHey Keith if you put ‘fudge’ in the search bar on the website you can see the whole article but here is the fudge bit:
hrTSS “Fudge Factors”
So what is an uphill athlete to do? It’s not a perfect solution, but I and the other coaches at Uphill Athlete introduce specific fudge factors into the hrTSS scores for daily workouts. Note: For the sake of comparing your workouts, it is important to remain consistent in how you apply these fudge factors. That way you will always be comparing apples to apples.Here is the system we have developed, broken down by workout type:
A purely aerobic run/hike/ski while carrying no to minimal weight:
Calculate the TrainingPeaks hrTSS and add 10 TSS for each 1,000 vertical feet of gain.A purely aerobic run/hike/ski while carrying more than 10 percent of body weight:
Add 20 TSS/1,000 feet.ParticipantHi Brad – due to work travel I have just switched from outdoors to gym based and found the 2.5 hours on Sat and 4 hours on Sunday on the incline trainer @ 25% very different to being outdoors.
It felt that different muscles were getting fatigued and it was a ‘harder’ perceived effort for the same heart rate workout overall – probably not helped by it being 32 degrees C and high humidity in the gym! Certainly wasn’t motivating through and I’m not looking forward to doing it all again next weekend.
ParticipantBack on ‘light’ training and feeling OK. Can still feel some effects as intensity increases so have planned in a transition week rather than returning straight to a full build week.
Participant@hafjell tanks for your input. Where you feeling nauseous before training or just once you started. I feel like I’ve got a head cold. Glad to hear you returned to pre-covid fitness o quickly.
ParticipantParticipantTested +ve today. I’m on the UA Private Mountaineering Group and @markpostle recommended this thread. Training for a Denali trip in late May.
Thanks for all your contributions – looks like I need to get Mrs M to lock the doors to keep me from training until all symptoms have passed. Here in the UK we are allowed out to exercise if we have covid which seems crazy based on the above. Next week was a programmed rest week which will help with my mental state if I’m not getting out there and racking up the miles.
Will keep you posted ….
ParticipantParticipantmattmay3s on March 23, 2022 at 1:52 am · in reply to: Abu Dhabi – ideal acclimatisation for Denali! #64650Thanks Mark
Participantmattmay3s on March 22, 2022 at 2:43 am · in reply to: Abu Dhabi – ideal acclimatisation for Denali! #64612@mark – many thanks. Always got an eye on funding the next adventure 🙂
I’ve been doing the tyre drag as the Saturday Z2 training. Is the above instead of this? Or do this plus some of the Sat scheduled workout?
The way my travel and the programming works out with rest weeks, I only actually ‘miss’ 3 of the hilly, outdoor tyre drags.
Participantmattmay3s on March 20, 2022 at 2:30 am · in reply to: Abu Dhabi – ideal acclimatisation for Denali! #64565ParticipantHi Brad – its had the opposite. Stopped tracking cals, and obsessing about protein intake, and started adding more carbs following Rebecca Dent’s presentation. Weight is now consistently dropping unless I drink too much. I do a lot of the sessions fasted as eating and then training really doesn’t work well for me.