Step-By-Step Guide to Anaerobic Intervals + Why Everyone Needs to Do Them

FasCat Cycling Training Tips Podcast

Check out www.fascatcoaching.com and use code 25PODCAST for 25% off. Should you be performing anaerobic intervals? If you’re unsure, you should know that anaerobic intervals are essential for criteriums, cyclocross, road racing , track, your local group ride and mountain biking - even for fondo’s and gravel events in small amounts. With that being said, you should probably be doing anaerobic intervals and that’s why in this episode of FasCat Coaching, Coach Frank gives you the a complete step-ny-step guide on how to incorporate and execute anaerobic intervals into your weekly training routine. He explains the how, what, why where, when and how hard.

The term anaerobic comes from the physiological fact that the energy required is so rapid that oxygen is not used to make the power unlike a longer vo2 or threshold interval that is more aerobic.

They are less than one minute, as hard as you can go intervals. We prescribe them in 30 to 60 second interval lengths at intensities 120 - 150% of your threshold power - and/or as hard as you can all for all of them much like the way we prescribe VO2 intervals.

Be sure to listen to the end because Coach Frank also gives you some basic, intermediate and advanced level anaerobic interval workouts, pacing recommendations and what to look at in the power analysis.

What’s discussed:

5:00 - What is considered anaerobic?

7:00 - Examples of Zone 6 Anaerobic intervals

10:00 - Step-by-step guide for how to perform Anaerobic intervals

15:00 - Best practices for optimal intervals

19:00 - Things to avoid when performing your intervals

22:00 - Interval pacing

28:00 - Who needs to be doing anaerobic work?

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