jackarabit wrote:hjs wrote:Never use zero rest, every even short pause will recover anaerobic reserves, skip one and you miss that.
For the rest maybe a longer pause after the three minutes, but different ideas could work.
But whatever, don,t skip a rest.
Does this recovery of anaerobic reserves apply only to the short duration, alactic energy system? If so, it seems we would be repeatedly employing a cell chemistry in interval format that we can only use once in continuous rows? There was some chatter here recently that the use of rolling interval starts may contribute to overly-optimistic pace prediction for race and other continuous distance. Does repeated use of the 30" of alactic energy chemistry on intervals also skew predictions of continuous pace?
True. Alactic aerobic energy will be restored for plus 90% in the first minute. At lower aerobic intensities it also recovers, at ctc paces not.
This form of energy is very important for game sports, fast high intensity, but short enough to not use the lactic system to much. Use that once to the max and we are out for a good while.
People who use short format interval work a lot get good at it, both due to training effect and also due to learning to use our energy at best, for those people, on average, predictions will be off a bit.
Not a fan off rolling starts myself, simply not how racing works. And for ergers who have raced, a erging race starts very slow, miles away from a rolling start.
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