Will I lose LT Power?

ryan16 said:

Hey everyone. For the next couple of months I am really going to focus on increasing my LT power and my max power all together. My question is if I do this and gain some power when I go back to build a base for 2 months will I lose the power I have gained? During base training is it best to have one day a week or every other week doing intervals?

Any advice would be great
Thanks😄

depending on your goals and what you're trying to achieve, and additionally the time that you have available for training over the winter months will depend on what you need to do. for many cyclists i would advise some moderate to high intensity work all winter and this would form part of "base" training.

By increasing "LT power" i'm assuming you actually mean your sustainable or TT power, which are different to LT power.

Some of the riders i coach do moderate-high intensity workouts 3 days a week due to time constraints/poor winter weather. This is often called reverse periodisation.

ric

ryan16 said:

Hey everyone. For the next couple of months I am really going to focus on increasing my LT power and my max power all together. My question is if I do this and gain some power when I go back to build a base for 2 months will I lose the power I have gained? During base training is it best to have one day a week or every other week doing intervals?

Any advice would be great
Thanks😄

Also, Ric if I may,

When you get to a new level. When, for example, after 4 months of hight intensity sessions, you finally reach a higher level (could be better avg speed on TT), this leaves some sort of a permanant fingerprint. This is even more true if you acheived that new level by overcoming a psychological limitation (fear to suffer, discover that you could go faster, for a longer period that you originally thought). After that, even if you put it aside for a couple of month, it will be easier to go back to where you were. In other words, it may not take 4 months to acheive the same results, specially if you apply the principles described by Ric. 🙂

ric_stern/RST said:

Some of the riders i coach do moderate-high intensity workouts 3 days a week due to time constraints/poor winter weather. This is often called reverse periodisation.
ric

In Canada, I do that all the time. Glad to learn that there is a name given to this approach 🙂

Thanks, Im not going to stop training but im just worried that ill lose power if I train slow. Thanks again for all the replys.

SolarEnergy said:

Also, Ric if I may,

When you get to a new level. When, for example, after 4 months of hight intensity sessions, you finally reach a higher level (could be better avg speed on TT), this leaves some sort of a permanant fingerprint. This is even more true if you acheived that new level by overcoming a psychological limitation (fear to suffer, discover that you could go faster, for a longer period that you originally thought). After that, even if you put it aside for a couple of month, it will be easier to go back to where you were. In other words, it may not take 4 months to acheive the same results, specially if you apply the principles described by Ric. 🙂