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What heart rate do you sit at
hippy wrote:
Is there a way to tell when you are done building base? Also, is there a disadvantage to building it quickly by sitting in 70-85% HRmax rather than say 65-75%? hippy I've based my training this year on "The Triatlete's Trainign Bible" by Joe Friel. He breaks the training schedule into Base, Build, Peak and Compete phases. The Base is all about establishign a level of fitness so that when you increase the intensity your body can cope. The Base starts after a break between seasons. Build is where you start getting into some aerobic action (obviously there's more detail to it than that), which luckliy co-incided with the start of BR rides on Sunday. At Peak you drop the hours but keep the intensity up and start to taper. If you're startign from scratch the Base can go from 8-12 weeks, Build at 6-8 weeks, Peak for 2 weeks and race for 2-3 weeks. But once you've got that base, the theory is you can drop back to the Build phase if you've got two lots of competition without enough time to go all teh way back to Base. It's also based on periodisation theory so you have 3 hard weeks and one easy where you do some time trials to test fitness. The basic idea is you can't stay at a peak all year and you need some rest and recovery time both physically and mentally at some stage of the year. In my case I started from scratch after an accident, peaking now for a couple of races over the next few weeks, then a lazy week and back into the Build phase for the coming triathlon season. Hope this helps. DaveB |
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