Barkadion wrote:
It looks like your intensity goes up from round to round more or less. It works different in my case.. meaning my best calories are for round one. It's declining steadily and my last round is pathetic. Also, great RI..
Awesome!
I read your log as an example for the goal setting
Also... I HATE these sessions
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Cheers
I've used the AD6 long enough to know that 40 cals in 2 minutes, for ME, is achievable almost all the time....... so I know that by 30s I should be at 10 cals min [remembering this is a 2 min effort and not a 20-30s all out sprint!]...... if I am way over then I know that I may have an uncomfortable 90s remaining
At the end of the day, it's a piece of kit..... I am working bloody hard, and given that I have a HRM on, I can see that the intensity levels are at the right level...... but even without a HRM, on a perception of effort scale, I am at 8 - 9 / 10 within these intervals.
If you are maintaining the same level of effort throughout every round, then progress will be made......What I have found to be superhelpful for me personally is to focus on your recovery in between rounds [walk around, hands on head, focus on breathing DEEPLY into the belly, focus on inhaling through the nose - although that can be feckin hard at the beginning
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]...there was a time when I would lie down, flop down..... cry...... but I remember being told something about 5 years ago that made me change that......
'Gazelles lie down at the end of a chase, they have given up, they have surrendered.'........ that made a big impact, and I have very rarely lay down at the end of a session since... as much as I want to, I try to walk around, or at the very least, take a knee, and take a couple of big breathes before getting up and moving..... mentally I am showing myself that I have not surrendered or given up.... that was powerful for ME.
It's also down to mindset.... the conditioning sessions are HARD, so I look at them as a challenge, to see how I fare, to see how far I can push myself in that session......
A long winded way to say, thank you matey...... your comments were appreciated..... enjoy your downtime
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