Unlocking the Power of Anaerobic Capacity with Coach John Croom

[@tristanm8250]

51:20 "Make your hard days hard and make your rest days even harder." Is this specifically referring to incorporating some short sprints into your endurance rides or is it more generally saying to increase the training load of your endurance/easy days? Like if a rider is already doing 4-5 hours on endurance days, are you saying they should throw in a few 2-10 minute intervals as well?

[@ds6914]

he's joking

[@richardmiddleton7770]

Aren't 20/40's, 30/30's etc. just fancy vo2 workouts? Surely you can get more time anaerobic with 20-30s on, 2-3 minutes off without taxing the aerobic system and creating too much sympathetic nervous system stress?

[@richardmiddleton7770]

Another question, if you're stopping eating at 8pm, but are up at 4, 5 even 6am, why the hell would yoi need breakfast for a relatively short workout?! What you ate the night before is likely still digesting! Reseach some biology on fuel availability timing from ingestion! It's not just stomach emptying time!

[@edgibbs3229]

Fabulous discussion! Thanks so much!!

[@iancarson8614]

sometimes you guys confuse me with your descriptions or definitions. unless i've got this wrong, all aerobic production of ATP takes place within the mitochondria, using fats and lactate. all anaerobic ATP is produced outside from glucose initially, but this takes place almost always at all intensities, since we always have blood lactate. so the anaerobic capacity is the overall size of the tank. the ability to produce ATP outside of the mitochondria. however you will never fully exploit the anaerobic capacity, if your mitochondria cant handle the byproducts. in other words, the aerobic process is king.

[@DDai-qd8uk]

Yeah go win a sprint with your king aerobic capacity

[@richardmiddleton7770]

​@DDai-qd8uk how longs the race before the sprint?!

[@DDai-qd8uk]

@@richardmiddleton7770 10min