This is a book about how really high-intensity work outs can get you ready for a racing season in only 6 hours per week. The basic argument is that while high-intensity workouts will improve your high-intensity ability, it will also help your endurance. Carmichael puts a caveat on rides longer than 3 hours. More interestingly, he puts a caveat on riding the program for more than 12 weeks. Apparently you train so hard that after 12 weeks of it, a kind of long-term fatigue will set in and really hold you back. He says an endurance training program that involves at least 10 hours a week will better prepare the rider for endurance riding and won't involve as hard a long-term bonk as this program. It's almost scared me into riding the 12 hours/week instead of following this program.
Has anyone used this program?
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