Subject: RE: Where is Jorge's Winter Cycling Plan?blbriley - 2011-09-23 5:50 PM What race distance is this program for, IM, HIM, OLY? Is it adaptable to shorter distances? Thanks! Increasing your Critical Power is closely related to your maximum lactate steady state (MLSS ) which is simply the highest level of exercise we can manage while maintaining a steady concentration of lactate in the blood. If you go harder than that you will end up having to stop sometime in the future and below, you can exercise long er periods of times. Many physiological processes occur around MLSS but the beauty of it is that it can help us predict performance, model training programs and track other things (i.e. fueling). Any endurance athlete from sprint to IM should focus at increasing their pace/power near MLSS. If you do AND if you do specific training for your main event (i.e. long steady state effort for IM or tempo for 70.3), you will almost certainly outperform your competition. So yes, it is useful for any triathlon distance. |