Doing heat training to become a better gravel racer

[@stuartwalker6409]

what an cute home you have. Cool video

[@lazlo2511]

Stay in the zone, just work on your mental strength too. See yourself back on the bike. Heat training can mess with your mind because of the temps. Otherwise keep healing up and November is around the corner.

[@TSbiker10]

Respect for all the time you invest in this, but sometimes it’s better to face the mirror and see your limitations. What I mean is that people like Remco are already top without anything and all those things like this are extra on top of this (and just to say he’s certainly not doing what you’re doing, most pro’s use the pod to keep body temperature low when in summer). Qualifying for the worlds would be something that your capable off just by training, not with this. I’m pretty sure it will have more a negative impact than positive on your health and body overtime.

[@windar2390]

You didnt get the message. He cant train like normal because he is on rehab. And with heat he can get his heartrate up without training too hard. Imho he does the best out of his situation.

[@TSbiker10]

@@windar2390 you might have missed the title of the video ?!? But my answer is pretty straightforward and simple, if you can’t qualify with normal training, you will also not qualify with all those special methods (I recall something of doing vo2max all the time)

[@gravelracingwithmadsbang]

@TSbiker10 Sorry mate, but you dont really get the full picture. First of, my bad race results at uci gravel races this year had nothing to do with fitness. Bad bike handling skills and a bit of bad luck. You mention pros not using the core sensor to do heat training. Well, spend 2 seconds looking at the website.. its made for heat training. You can easily find videos of remco doing heat training or the entire team of Lotto dstny.. you also mention vo2 max blocks. This is not a concept I made up. You can find lots of interesting research papers about it. Both heat training and vo2 max blocks is ideas backed by science. You should really try a simply google search before posting a comment like this. I guess i'm just the type of person who like to try things and get smarter

[@gravelracingwithmadsbang]

@windar2390 thanks mate. You get it

[@TSbiker10]

@@gravelracingwithmadsbang it wasn’t meant to sound negative, just realistic and in debate. Handling skills is also training … I also never said that for example VO2max training is bad, but you tried to do nothing else if I recall correctly. And about the sensor, I do know for what it’s meant yes, Remco lives just a few blocks away and certainly isn’t using the heat training the same way you do (constantly), but I understand if you are interested in all this and want to test everything at his max. I still doubt if it’s healthy and/or useful. There’s a lot of other things you can still test like ketones, sleeping in an altitude bedroom, monitor your nutrition intake and much more.