As I indicated, the Conconi is useless. However, in theory, it gives you your anaerobic threshold
HR. What direct use that is to training is debatable. I no longer ascribe to threshold training over
other intensities. There is no best training intensity.
CH
"trg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:I have a pretty good idea of where the line is for me in terms of max HR at which I can do an
hour on the trainer. If I work at 5bpm more, I can't sustain. Will the conconi give me more info
than this?Thanks
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[email hidden]...Quoted message said:In article <[email hidden]>, chris <[email hidden]>
Quoted message said:That's because the test is garbage. Conconi manipulated his data in such a way to get a near
perfect correlation. Having read some 20 papers, including a review of all the validation
studies, no one can adequately repeat his study. Interestingly enough, Conconi has never had a
problem repeating it.A very good way is to ride a one 1 hr TT, flat out (a windtrainer works best to allow for
consistancy). You'll be riding at or near maximal lactate stedy state (MLSS) - the highest
power where blood lactate remains stable; MLSS is typically what most people think of as
lactate threshold. In comparison, LT can really be any number of points (eg, power at 1 mM,
2.5 mM, 4 mM). Coyle defined LT as a 1 mM increase above baseline lactate.I don't diasagree about the usefulness of a Conconi but the poster said he can't measure power
so all he has is something like a Conconi, or if he can bear to do a one hour TT on a wind
trainer he might get something useful.-WG