
The Watts Doc #4: How High Intensity Interval Training Makes You Faster
Empirical Cycling Podcast
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The Effects of Anaerobic Work on Fitness
If you increase one the other actually decreases so it becomes like a teeter-totter of physiological systems that makes sense. Phil Diamond now that he's going out and doing these like Strava KOMs everywhere not having to train for these very long world tour races says his FTP has gone up a little bit. If you're doing a lot of anaerobic stuff like this is the kind of polish on someone's fitness because the adaptations are almost all enzymatic in other words like their enzymes. This takes like a couple hours and by the time you've recovered your glycogen stores which is a couple days you're going to see immediate improvements, according to my coaching experience
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