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jim-ratliff

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Re: Ride up Mt Werner
« on: July 21, 2010, 07:32:39 am »
Mike/All:
 
Your interval training is exactly what I am trying to understand. ?It's similar to the windsprints I used to get to run in high school basketball, maximum exertion for a brief period of time, a recovery period, repeat as long as the coach keeps blowing the whistle. ?We didn't have heart monitors because we were kids, but I'm sure it was 15-20 minutes with heart rates above 160, ?but do such drills develop Slow Twitch muscles necessary for endurance or do they build Fast Twitch muscles that are used for short bursts of greater strength. ?The 2 minutes hockey lines, for example , match pretty close the description that Fast Twitch muscles burn all of their burst power enzymes in about 2 minutes.

Lynn calls it "specificity of training". ?If I want to be able to run a Marathon, I don't do much sprinting, I focus on longer runs? ?if I eventually think I might want to ride a Century, then I need to be doing more 4-5 hour rides?
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