Base: using my current understanding from SolarEnergy has said, is anything. Yip. That is pretty much what I meant thanks.
This yields the question then why the heck even talking about it. Base can now be quantified. So lots of people now care about. it.
If I ask you how much work can you achieve per week. I'm probably going to get an answer expressed in term of volume which is fine, given that I assume that your training composition is pretty much similar as mine. That's ok. Good enough.
So yip. A base is basically how much work, how much of anything you can perform routinely, hence the term *Chronic* training load.
You build on a base of what you have already accomplished. Nothing could be closer from the truth. Though the default settings of the software give much more weight to what you've done in the last 42days, it is a never ending story. The last 42 are a consequence of the 42 before etc...
If you have never trained, or have become untrained from a long break, then you have no base. Doing anything will build a base. Since the quality of your base depends on your goals, there isn't a good general way to build a base. In total agreement. Different goals call for different approaches.
At the end of every single workout cyclists download their training data to a computer. This data is recorded at a rate of one data sample per 1.26sec. It includes RPM, Speed, HR, Torque, Elevation, Power etc... Charts then get generated. One of them shows you your Base. It also shows you your peaks. You then get to learn to interpret this data and after a while, you end up having a fair idea of what your Base should be, given the goals, time available, strengths and weaknesses etc.
Building Base also builds fatigue. It is also shown on the graphs. Then people, (lots of them) start to wonder at which rate should I grow my base, or up to which point should I tolerate high fatigue curve values etc.....
Aerobic Base: I do not believe you ever need to train at an aerobic level to build more aerobic base. All training efforts end up using the aerobic system. In agreement here again. That's why I called it the aerobic base early in the thread.
Base: using my current understanding from SolarEnergy has said, is anything. Yip. That is pretty much what I meant thanks.
This yields the question then why the heck even talking about it. Base can now be quantified. So lots of people now care about. it.
If I ask you how much work can you achieve per week. I'm probably going to get an answer expressed in term of volume which is fine, given that I assume that your training composition is pretty much similar as mine. That's ok. Good enough.
So yip. A base is basically how much work, how much of anything you can perform routinely, hence the term *Chronic* training load.
You build on a base of what you have already accomplished. Nothing could be closer from the truth. Though the default settings of the software give much more weight to what you've done in the last 42days, it is a never ending story. The last 42 are a consequence of the 42 before etc...
If you have never trained, or have become untrained from a long break, then you have no base. Doing anything will build a base. Since the quality of your base depends on your goals, there isn't a good general way to build a base. In total agreement. Different goals call for different approaches.
At the end of every single workout cyclists download their training data to a computer. This data is recorded at a rate of one data sample per 1.26sec. It includes RPM, Speed, HR, Torque, Elevation, Power etc... Charts then get generated. One of them shows you your Base. It also shows you your peaks. You then get to learn to interpret this data and after a while, you end up having a fair idea of what your Base should be, given the goals, time available, strengths and weaknesses etc.
Building Base also builds fatigue. It is also shown on the graphs. Then people, (lots of them) start to wonder at which rate should I grow my base, or up to which point should I tolerate high fatigue curve values etc.....
Aerobic Base: I do not believe you ever need to train at an aerobic level to build more aerobic base. All training efforts end up using the aerobic system. In agreement here again. That's why I called it the aerobic base early in the thread.
