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stephensmith on October 26, 2020 at 1:35 pm · in reply to: Passed my PhD! Moving to Austria! #46290

Thank you!

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stephensmith on October 26, 2020 at 1:34 pm · in reply to: Passed my PhD! Moving to Austria! #46289

Thank you! Yes, Salzburg, but will be exploring Austria. Would be good to meet up with fellow forum members who are willing to show me around!

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stephensmith on July 15, 2020 at 3:47 am · in reply to: Base fitness maintenance #43599

Thanks Scott, I’ll upload some data when I’ve done a race. But see the data from one 20 minute track session attached.

Based off your advice, I think a weekly volume of 10 hours would be good for maintenance and to keep the weight off. I’ll probably periodise this over a 4 week block with week 4 being a recovery week. Keep the volume about the same but periodise the intensity/ TSS.

Thanks 🙂

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stephensmith on February 17, 2020 at 11:48 am · in reply to: Signed up to my first Ultra! #38320

It would be good to meet up with you both. And also hear how your training is going.

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stephensmith on February 17, 2020 at 11:47 am · in reply to: Signed up to my first Ultra! #38319

Thanks.
Had a good couple of weeks, hitting almost all of my planned sessions. Struggling to hit the vertical at the moment as where I live is really flat, but I’ll just change how I plan my runs – less just out of the front door!

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stephensmith on February 7, 2020 at 6:31 am · in reply to: My new testing lab #37698

I would recommend 145 – from experience, 164 sounds quite high for a fatmax threshold.

Leave it with me, I will dive into the data I have from other athletes and explain my findings in a post.

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stephensmith on February 7, 2020 at 6:24 am · in reply to: My new testing lab #37697

Slightly bad example, but I’ve seen another study in runners ( VO2peak of 50.53 ± 8.45 ml/kg/min). Still not very well trained in terms of runners really, but again a high correlation r2=0.87.
I’ve also seen this in my own tests, but again the athletes wouldn’t be classed as elite – perhaps that would be a good study, something I could even do in my own lab i.e. look at how fatmax differs to aerobic threshold in trained vs trained athletes.

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stephensmith on February 6, 2020 at 5:37 am · in reply to: My new testing lab #37568

You don’t really have to go so complicated, as your aerobic threshold highly correlates with your fatmax: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28745473

I’ve also seen this in my own data when testing athletes to a point where you can pretty much assume the values to be equal.

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stephensmith on February 5, 2020 at 4:39 am · in reply to: My new testing lab #37489

Hi Scott,

Essentially we take the breath by breath analysis of O2 and carbon dioxide, and average the last 30 seconds worth of data from each stage of the test. We then input these values into a stoichiometric equation, which when plotted against power gives us a sort-of bell-shaped curve. Each athlete’s curve is quite different. From that I pinpoint a fatmax zone for the athlete to work within for those particular sessions.

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stephensmith on February 2, 2020 at 2:02 am · in reply to: My new testing lab #37241

Trying to change my profile picture! Seem to be having some trouble with Gravatar

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stephensmith on August 12, 2019 at 2:43 am · in reply to: Introduction and week 1 #26660

Thanks Scott, happy to help where I can.

It would make sense for the weight bearing to play a part, I’m 95 kgs (lean), so it’s a bit of mass to shift!

Learning a lot from the Marathon plan in terms of building up the volume specifically. In the past I have self-coached and would have increased the volume at a much steeper rate.

Thanks
Stephen