VO2 Max - Part 3

Placebo or the real deal?

I'm not sure entirely - I did feel better, and by my calculations I lasted about a minute longer than last time (>20% improvement if true). My VO2 was hovering around 1-2 points higher on this test also...

One of the problems with a test like this is you stop when you are completely fatigued. The issue is that when you are almost at THAT point you can continue but your wattage slowly starts to drop... Then you get yelled at to keep going (MORE MORE MORE damn it!) and the wattage spikes up again before the inevitable drift downwards..... So when you've finished the test - you are hurting - but you also feel like you could have kept going.... just say pushing 30 watts less...

This kinda leaves you feeling like you have whimped out a bit and not really subjected yourself to max pain.... One more test next week then we get to find out all the results!! Some cool blood analysis will be given as feedback also which should make for some interesting geeky probing...