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WillB on December 6, 2020 at 3:47 pm · in reply to: Potential for kayaking to undermine training #47912

Right, that makes sense, I think it’s even moreso the case than with alpinism.

Do you have any particular advice for how to put these whitewater sessions into TP? In other words, if I just add them in as usual I’m going to start getting a single-number CTL that reflects the combination of both forms of fitness. But it sounds like they really don’t represent a combined fitness- it’s almost like I need two separate TP interfaces to track fatigue and fitness from each discipline separately. Maybe the crux of this question is really how I should the additive fatigue effect between the two.

I imagine other folks may be in a similar boat, with some kind of “biathlon” type practice, and not clear on how to manage their load between the two.

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WillB on November 10, 2020 at 4:20 pm · in reply to: Potential for kayaking to undermine training #46696

Awesome, that’s great to know, thanks

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WillB on November 7, 2020 at 6:39 pm · in reply to: Potential for kayaking to undermine training #46618

Wow, I didn’t realize that, thanks for the response.

Just for my understanding of the principle, that means that the mitochondrial changes produced by high intensities are localized to the muscles?

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WillB on November 7, 2020 at 3:36 pm · in reply to: Potential for kayaking to undermine training #46608

Wore my HR monitor on the water today and it was worse than I thought- in a 3 hour session I spent an hour and 15 in Z3 and 15 minutes in Z4. It was an unusually intense session, playboating rather than river running. But still worrying for my base.

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WillB on February 7, 2020 at 7:34 pm · in reply to: Targeting Calves in Gym-Based ME #37742

Cool, that’s helpful.

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WillB on February 7, 2020 at 7:34 pm · in reply to: No AeT improvment #37741

Hey Scott, regarding the rule of thumb to keep high-intensity training to 5% for a goal longer than 2 hours, that excludes strength and ME training, right? Otherwise almost any plan that had a weekly strength session would require the athlete to be doing like 20 hours a week of aerobic work, but I just wanted to make sure.

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WillB on February 4, 2020 at 3:06 pm · in reply to: Targeting Calves in Gym-Based ME #37428

Hiking and scrambling steep slopes was what I meant. Often in crampons, but usually not front-pointing.

The flexibility thing is interesting and something to think about. I do always hike with my heels on the ground, but even so getting up hill requires some level of calf contraction to support the much stronger driver higher up the chain. That’s what I was reference talking about isometric contraction in the last post. So it’s not like just getting my heels to the ground on steep terrain is particularly difficult, but maybe it does tax my calves if they’re too tight. I’d also be a bit surprised if that were it since my dorsiflexion is pretty good, but it’s a good thought. Maybe I’ll add in some more aggressive and higher volume calf-stretching.

So you think it’s a no on adding in a calf-targeted exercise to the ME workout, even if what feels like a ME endurance deficit is not in fact actually a flexibility deficit?

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WillB on January 27, 2020 at 9:51 pm · in reply to: Another Confusing Drift Test Result #37016

I retested my AeT with a target of 140 and got a first half average of 143 and a second half average of 150, putting me at exactly 0.05. Can you take a look at the graph again and see it still looks unusually stochastic to you? I’m pretty sure that big spike to 167 was an HR monitor thing since it dropped back when I repositioned the strap, but even so there’s a lot of jumping.

I also did this test after a big load week so it’s probably impacted by fatigue. Could I assume that my AeT is another 5 bpm higher (which also would make sense given my pace improvements and the low drift on my last test), or should I really just do another test when I’m rested?

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WillB on January 19, 2020 at 7:32 am · in reply to: Impact of accidental ME on Aerobic Training effect #36523

Thanks, that’s really helpful.

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WillB on January 18, 2020 at 6:18 pm · in reply to: Impact of accidental ME on Aerobic Training effect #36513

Interesting, so last week’s analogous workout with a ~47 pound pack would also have had an ME rather than aerobic training effect? The custom plan I did last year from Sam Naney had long Z2 uphill hiking days with a weighted pack as the centerpiece of the base-building. At 6’3” and 180 the 20% of bw they called for wasn’t far off from the pack I used last week. How much lighter do you think I’d need to go to get back to an aerobic effect?

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WillB on January 12, 2020 at 12:42 pm · in reply to: Another Confusing Drift Test Result #36107

Thanks for the advice on retesting at a higher BPM and on just resetting the treadmill after the warmup, that’s really helpful.

And yeah it is really stochastic, which I think is characteristic for me. Sitting in my car driving to the trailhead this morning my watch was showing an HR reading that was bouncing around all the way between 52bpm and 60bpm. Any idea what that would mean if it’s actually me and not a bad strap/monitor?

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WillB on October 27, 2019 at 9:02 am · in reply to: HR drift test without TP #30848

That makes sense, thanks for the replies. I figured it should work but I remembered seeing a post from Scott somewhere on the forum where he said they didn’t include the drift test in the books because they didn’t want to suggest a method that required TP, which confused me.