2PEAK Knowledge Base
Discover the 2PEAK training philosophy: a program that balances alternating phases of intensity, endurance, and recovery, based on periodization and supercompensation to maximize your performance.
2PEAK optimizes your fitness potential (yes precisely yours and not the average of randomized group).
“We do work in the off season, but it’s short and sharp”
Brett Sutton
In this text we look at the confusion surrounding the topic of intervals and the answers to the problems of “when is an interval an interval?” and “training by heart rate or pace?”.
It happens from time to time that you can’t or don’t want to complete a workout as planned. Whether it’s due to the weather, a busy schedule, or simply not feeling up to it. With 2PEAK, that’s not a problem. Why? Because the plan always adjusts to the changed circumstances.
Cardiovascular drift is a well-known phenomenon, but the exact timing of its occurrence in the body remains unclear, as it is highly individual and depends on many different factors. Essentially, cardiovascular drift is when your heart rate increases even though your exercise intensity remains the same.
I caught myself considering buying a set of titanium bolts for my racing machine. You save 5 grammes – has to be worth it! At the very latest when the climb gradient reaches double figures, we curse every gramme which helps our physical enemy, gravity to make life hard for us. It is almost a meditative therapy to imagine ordering the pretty package, opening it and replacing the steel bolts in the evening in the workshop.
Dr. med. Bernhard Rinderknecht *
During winter, without any races going on you’re mostly just training (more or less by yourself). You train but you still don’t really know where you stand in comparison to other athletes. Then Easter rolls along, many have already been in their first training camp for this year and the race season is only a few weeks away. Yup, time is definitely flying by and with it comes the question if we are on course/track. Am I training enough? Am I making progress? Is my data correct?
Are you in line with your goal? Are you training specifically according to your plan? The Training Meter provides direct feedback on the quality of training, broken down into the three essential components of endurance performance: potential (VO2max), fatigue endurance and exploitation.
We have features here at 2PEAK, which get used less than others. We’d like to create some awareness of the 2PEAK Social Feature, which you should definitely try out, if you’re fed up with training for hours all by yourself or you can’t find any good raining routes in new places.