ALL TIME HIGH VO2 MAX 

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Haha, GG!

It’s really crazy! Poggi is really pushing the limits atm! #nohumanislimited

Haha, it is!

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thanks!

The new pogi! Capable of winning big tour but also long sprints with this crazy vo2

Haha, calm down!😂 You can’t win anything just because you have a high vo2 max. What’s matter is to have the highest avg speed from start to the finish! It’s a looooong way up to those boys, but one day, maybe!🙏🏻

He’s also half the age lol

Sadly you have to put out and also you need a high lactate threshold too. Even if the tests were exactly the same it’s pretty impressive.

Froomey is in bad shape plus off-season

Hi! I like to ride a pretty high cadence because then the load on the legs gets a bit lower and the load on the heart a bit higher. If I ride a lower cadence on this type of a test my legs says stop pretty fast

Thanks! It’s the high volume in training combined with lots of threshold that made my vo2 pretty high. I usually don’t do that much of vo2 work

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It’s hard for me to tell you, but I do two LT1 sessions and two LT2 sessions per week

@@cedrikbakkechristophersen Thanks

GG!

maybe should say "favorite" instead of "best", but if there's a distinction to make there that would be interesting to know as well!

Hi! I prefer to have a good mix in vo2 session, but I always try to have the highest avg heart rate. I do this because the main focus on vo2 sessions should be to have the highest ventilation as possible and not the highest avg power/speed.

@@cedrikbakkechristophersen Would you then say that doing one bout of 30min where you can maintain 90-95% max of your heart rate is better or equal to splitting these 30mins into intervals (since upon resuming intervals it takes a while to get HR back up)? And despite the fact that in one bout 30min long power/speed will keep decreasing substantionally? I am asking because I can keep going 30s/30s hard/easy for 30min without any rest and keep my HR over 90% of my max HR. It also seems more convenient than stopping and takes less time, it just gets less power/speed overall (but I dont care since I am not racing). I could split it into intervals with rests in between and increase my power/speed but my HR wouldnt be any higher and it would take just more time.

It's probably more the regular easy riding (zone 2) that helps vo2, not the threshold intervals.

I think most importantly is to choose your parent wisely. Besides that is make sure you already have the lowest possible BF% for yourself.

Hi! In 2019 when I started with testing in the lab I measured 77 in vo2 max. We decided to have a big block with lots of vo2 max. Did two vo2 swim, one vo2 bike and one vo2 run session per week for 3-4 months and then my vo2 max went up to 87. Since then the focus has been on high volume and lots of LT1/LT2 work to get my VLmax lower.

@@cedrikbakkechristophersen Thx!

Solid!

The tacx app;)

Haha, I’m not good on the turbo, that’s the reason;)

Good question Luca. I assume they check power from their own devices and compare with Tacx Neo power to see if they align.

@@cedrikbakkechristophersen So you inside LT2 is 330Watt and your outside LT2 is 380Watt? That's also what I say after every Zwift race ;)

@@Maartenvankooij I use the power from my Quarq Powermeter both inside and outside

@@Maartenvankooij but that’s right! When my threshold inside is around 320w, it’s around 380w outside

Hei! Enkelt forklart så trener jeg LT1 for å lære kroppen til å bruke fett som hoved-energikilde på høyest mulig intensitet. Stor forskjell å ha LT1 på 300w vs 250w. Det er noe vi anser som ekstra viktig i sykkel da man ofte sykler «rolig» i feltet og ikke ønsker å brenne av unødvendig glykogen i periodene det går «rolig» i feltet. Ønsker jo tross alt å ha med mest mulig glykogen inn i finalen!

When doing max efforts by the definition you should breath like this… Otherwise it’s not “max” by the definition.

That’s true. I usually breath as much as possible, but the mask makes it sound louder

It gives very different values so you can’t compare them

this a joke, right?

I'm 60 and those are very impressive numbers!

LT1 is where the lactate starts to increase and LT2 is where the lactate starts to increase exponentially. I do LT1 work to learn my body to use fat as energy and to become more efficient

@@cedrikbakkechristophersen cool thanks! So for your long rides/aerobics rides you would do them just under LT1?

@@brandonnielsen694 I can for example have 4x30 minutes LT1 mixed in a 4 hour ride. That’s how I implement the LT1 work

I thought LT1 was everything below 2 MM and in your results you show yours at somewhere between 1.4-1.5 MM. Could you explain! Thanks

Hehe, think it says 81

Kan stå, men føler selv det er bedre å sitte ettersom man ofte stivner om man reiser seg opp på rulla

Hi! I have testes the same with 3 different types of masks, so it’s very precise

Yes. 2 bottles of maurten 320 + 2 maurten caffeine gel. Did 2x10’ LT2 + 15’ LT1 after the test so the session ended up being 3h.

Thanks! Yes, I felt during the test that I could go a little bit longer with the breathing, but the legs couldn’t. More to come when I get some more training in the legs!

Great constatation! I would agree that it is highly possible that perhaps, lack of neuromuscular control within such high intensity range led to earlier exhaustion. However, even tho he reaches his LT2 with a load of almost 400W on bycicle ergometer, his enormous capacity to increase oxygen consumtion led to a decent lactate build up. Perhaps he gave up because he had not been used to tolerating lactic acid since he is probably never even reaching VO2max within his long distance (exclusevly aerobic derieved energy acquisition) competitions and training sessions in the first place. Thus the consequence of such activity prompts its seizure since he cant take the pain of the muscle burn.

70.3:)

Thanks! I do lots of threshold and that has increased my threshold a lot, but I think for the majority typically vo2 sessions is the most efficient

The problem is you can't do lots of threshold or vo2 work without burning out. It's simply about weekly hours, the more hours you can do consistently the higher your vo2 will be.

I ride a 60 rpm cadence, high power, low HR in Zone 2. That has taken my VO2 Max up to 83.0

It’s not that interesting. Think I ended up at 203 in max heart rate and 5min (190bpm) and 1min (198bpm).

Haha, you're telling me that I have tiny legs?😭

@@cedrikbakkechristophersen No, but i mean big in terms od muscularity.

Hi! My weight before that test was 70.3kg

Yo bigslim, Oskar Svendsen tested 97 a few years ago, bedore he quit cycling

🦾90 is a lot, i am an under 23 cyclists and in off season i am now around 80, but we are not doing high intensity intervals, just volume, also vo2 max one of the pharameters, if you havent an high ftp or resistance it is good only for short efforts

gg!

Trust the philosophy

Haha, you need so much more than a high vo2 max to win Tour de France.. of course it helps to have a high vo2 max, but you need an extremely high efficiency in everything, experience and you need to be a winner if you should win TDF

​@@cedrikbakkechristophersen Very true that. I wasnt being completely serious and I know theres obviously more to it than just a high V02 max, even if yours is exceptional. Still, Id reckon you wouldnt be a bad climber in UCI stage races. Its up to you to choose what to do with it of course, keep it up though! 😃

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I know that it’s not the best, but I’m very bad on the turbo so that’s some of the reason

You should race Cedrik

@@AntonStensby Why? I wouldn't stand a chance

Haha, it says 81