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by Leo Young » May 26th, 2016, 4:08 pm
Nice effort Shawn, at a low rating. I'll be keen to see what you can do once you progress up to rating 40+. You've certainly demonstrated a very easy, effective and relatively painless training progression method for doing a respectable 500m time.
Interestingly, I had coincidentally been toying with experimenting with basically the same idea myself (beginning with trying achieve 500+ watts over 500m, at an average rating of only 20, or less, i.e. 25 watts per stroke/min), as a means of getting some good 'bang for bucks' from the most minimalistic and painless training process possible. But you've beaten me to it, in proving the concept. Thanks for openly sharing your training journey, as I watch closely with interest.
By the way, for what it's worth, as a Sports Scientist and Clinical Nutritionist, I've consistently practiced intermittent fasting for almost 15 years now, originally eating only once a day (fasting 23 hours a day), but in recent years more successfully modified to fasting only 18 hours a day, training and eating twice a day. Whilst I've also experimented carefully with low carb eating, the medium to long term effects are negative and actually end up creating insulin resistance. A better regime is to restrict eating carbs to the most insulin sensitive window, within the first hour after training, coupled with protein, but mimimisng fats during that time, but then resorting to fats and protein, coupled with zero carbs, only 3 hours after carb ingestion.
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