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the misplaced belief in the 1 minute interval & the concept of The Unified Approach

  • by Lee Rodgers
  • Posted on June 3, 2013

intervals. the dreaded intervals. truth be told, interval training is just about the best thing…

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12 responses to “the misplaced belief in the 1 minute interval & the concept of The Unified Approach”

  1. paul roberts Avatar
    paul roberts
    June 3, 2013

    Interesting read. Thank you.

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  2. Floris Avatar
    Floris
    June 3, 2013

    But what if you’re already good enough for all the mid-race intervals and just wanna train your final attack…?

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    1. crankpunk Avatar
      crankpunk
      June 4, 2013

      for Dutch Hammers like yourself, Floris, i think you’re best left to do whatever the heck you want 😉 this article is aimed more at those who haven;’t yet done the rest of the hard work to be putting in a final attack 🙂

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  3. Amsterdam Hammer Avatar
    Amsterdam Hammer
    June 3, 2013

    Hey, nice read. I see a lot of guys doing 30″/30″ intervals and I always tell them that they are of no use. Never seen a race situation requiring that skill either 🙂
    Just a question, why do those intervals (race prep) on the indoor trainer? I’ve always stuck by doing them on a flat road and preferably with a tail wind (in a 53/16) so as to keep your speed at a racing equivalent and your heart rate up there too. It takes +/- one minute to reach HR threshold value which is why one minute efforts are almost worthless !

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    1. chrisjennings Avatar
      chrisjennings
      June 3, 2013

      When doing short intervals with heart rate (anything under two minutes) you have to note in your head what the perceived effort is at threshold. Then when you start the interval you ride at that perceived effort and ignore HR. If your pushing hard to get to threshold in that one minute you’re actually going above threshold and not doing the correct training.

      The one minute interval is not worthless. Heart rate data is what’s worthless in the one minute interval. That’s why training with power is so much better. You get instant feedback as to how much power your putting into the pedals and not having to wait for your heart to catch up to what your muscles are doing.

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      1. crankpunk Avatar
        crankpunk
        June 4, 2013

        i agree, it’s not worthless and does have its place, especially of you are going into a race in really good shape and looking to taper, or expecting a lot of short attacks on a mountain race. and yes power is better than a HRM, but not better, ultimately, than feeling it 😉 for me anyway

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  4. James Machin Avatar
    James Machin
    June 3, 2013

    My current interval training is 1 hour at max power……. Fuji Hillclimb on the 16th. Bascially Im doing it as a 1 hour critical power test 😀

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  5. chrisjennings Avatar
    chrisjennings
    June 3, 2013

    My training consists of two weeks on, one week rest. In my two weeks on I almost never repeat the same interval sessions. And at least one of the interval sessions is done on roads that are not straight and are not flat. Well at least not flat for North Texas. As far as Saturday group rides go it’s I always try to get them to start riding out with the wind at their backs. I tell them it’s good training to fight the wind back in because races ain’t ever easy at the end.

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  6. Dirk Westerduin Avatar
    Dirk Westerduin
    June 3, 2013

    The way many cyclists think seems to reflect the way long distance runners thought 50 years ago. It might make sense to study the way athletes in other disciplines train. The head trainer of Sky was a swimming coach before he got hired by the cycling team, for example.

    Further, a-specific (i.e. non-specific) training can sometimes be good (I did 60 metre sprints as a high level ultra long distance runner, for example). However, it all depends on your background as an athlete, what you’ve done so far, what you’re training for, et cetera. You wouldn’t want a beginning cyclist to do 5 x 10 min at 95% of their maximum, for example, whilst it could be very effective for a well trained cyclist.

    By the way, every average-intelligent cyclist knows nowadays that simply doing mileage on the bike, or spending hours in the saddle, is not effective.

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    1. crankpunk Avatar
      crankpunk
      June 4, 2013

      depends if you mean bike intelligence or intelligence intelligence, cos i’ve met guys who do do 500km a week and the same distance almost daily.

      as for using old methods, agreed, similar to LSD training, taken from cycling, too time-consuming to be done properly by anyone other than a FT pro, and with alternative methods to achieve similar results, kind of silly…

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  7. forum.tuto-fr.com Avatar
    forum.tuto-fr.com
    November 30, 2013

    tych psich oczach, na Owocna maszyny. martwej siatkówce http://Serwis.Myartsonline.com/?urzeczywistnienie-sytuacji-wynajmu-wysokotonazowego-dzwigu (forum.tuto-fr.com) odbił się film
    przygiętych sylwetek w ciemnoszarych, zlewających się z mrooiem kombinezonach.

    Na bezgłośny proroctwo sylwetki odskoczyły od momentu bramy, przylgnęły doo
    muru.
    Ful był dziwnie głuchy, podczas gdy kierunkowe
    ładunki przecinały zawiasy. Pancerne
    przejścia nieznacznie drgnęły, toż nie ruszyły ze stalowej futryny, do tej pory przytrzymywane
    ryglami, Dop.

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  8. Jacquie Avatar
    Jacquie
    January 2, 2014

    ał sir Roger, w tym momencie bez Przyjazna, miła natomiast przystojna, wielkiej nadziei.
    web site (Jacquie) Arnold pokręcił głowicą.
    – Zero nie zamontuje. Jeślibym, kobiety, pomiędzy
    pogany poszedł, otuchę solidną zaszczepiać, zaś tam w niewolę popadł,
    owo będzie wstanie… Mimo to w tej okolicy, wypalił
    rycerz Konrad,
    chrześcijański brzeżek, wprawdzie żmogus niezwykle ochrzczony
    na tronie. Nie godzi się rycerza, jaki prawa lokalne naruszył,
    z niewoli wykupywać, od chwili topora oraz pnia kato.

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