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The Watts Doc #7: What Is Base Really?

Empirical Cycling Podcast

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The Benefits of Zone Two Training

The theory behind zone two, like lots of base training was that you were building capillaries and increasing blood flow. But if you went too hard, the increased exertion would like ruin the capillary formation or something. "If you do like two hours of zone two every single day, um, you're not going to get that much faster because you're not challenging yourself," he says.

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