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KBZ on September 20, 2021 at 5:41 am · in reply to: Aerobic treshold sweet spot #57187

The challenge at staying at the top of the range is you are more likely to slip into Z3 (go beyond AeT). Just target to stay middle of the Z2 range and you should be okay.

Lets assume I can stay within AeT during the entire workout. Does it make any difference in training quality if I train at the lower range (144) of my Z2 or at the top of the range (154) ?
Or maybe the final training result is the same as long as I stay within the Z2 during my training?

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KBZ on March 5, 2021 at 1:57 am · in reply to: How to lose muscles #51578

It’s quite easy to determine that when I compare the size of my quads, calves, bicepses to the guys who regularly wins the competition. They are just a lot thinner.
My BMI 23.87 what is close to overweight. I know that BMI is not accuarate and sometimes irrelevant but if I weighed 18 kg less I would be still in the lower limit of the correct weight for my height.
I just want to get rid of ~5kgs of the muscle mass what I suppose would translate to much better results.

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KBZ on January 19, 2021 at 2:27 am · in reply to: Energy Cost per weight in skimo #49496

I haven’t heard of any research but IMO every gram counts. I may be wrong but from my experience the lower the weight is suspended – the greater the impact will be. My point is that 1kg in the backpack doesn’t make such difference as 1kg heavier skis.
I use training set which weighs 870g, when I stepped into my friend’s skis which weigh 750g it felt like previously I was dragging anchor. Difference was huge while my skis are only 120g heavier.

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KBZ on December 18, 2020 at 4:41 am · in reply to: HR elevated after disease? #48341

I had an antigen test and it’s positive, so probably I had covid with symptoms of sinusitis.
I had also blood tests, ECG, lungs x-ray and a covid test which was negative. Lungs x-ray do not show anything abnormal, ECG was fine.
Blood results show elevated monocytes, eosinophils, and lowered neutrophils, leukocytes.
Hemoglobin and hematocrit is at the lower limit of the norm.
So seems like I’m experiencing some lingering effects of the covid?

I was also recently listening to your recent podcast about overtraining and began to think about it…
It’s not overtraining if I haven’t experienced any major form decline? I don’t experience persistent fatigue or muscle soreness. What I recently began to experience is depressive mood, loss of motivation and problems with falling and staying asleep. But I suppose it’s due to being unable to train normally and huge dissapointment about the upcoming race season which I keep thinking about.

I feel like this season is over for me. Not sure if there is any point to do even some Z1/Z2 workouts, maybe it’s better just to hit the couch till I get better and then slowly begin base building for next season?

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KBZ on December 10, 2020 at 6:09 am · in reply to: HR elevated after disease? #48115

I will drop for now the interval trainings and stay within Z1-2.

What about the strength sessions? These should be continued as previously or also dropped?

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KBZ on December 7, 2020 at 3:11 am · in reply to: HR elevated after disease? #47924

Thanks for your input Scott!
Do you have any idea how long approximetely it can take till everything get back to normal?
It’s really difficult for me to stop all intensity workouts now when the competition season is just behind the corner. I feel like I’m loosing now everything what I’ve hard worked for all of the year…