High level cycling is all about the management
of a tiny bit of anaerobic energy
We present you 3 components that will make you a smarter, better and faster rider.
1. All there is to know about Anaerobic Cycling: Critical Power, Aerobic-Anaerobic energy systems, Acute Exhaustion and recovery and Typhoon, a program for the detailed anaerobic analysis of your recorded power files.
2. SuperCycle, the worlds first and only app for android and iPhone that allows you to monitor live
the state of the anaerobic reserve during your ride.
3. An e-book that explains the full implications of new training methods.
Critical Power Modeling
The main goal of this website is to help you to be a manager of your anaerobic energy during and after your bicycle rides. Whether you are a leisure rider or a real pro, you need this to ride with best result for the least effort.
First we need to understand the basics of the Critical Power model and of the use of aerobic and anaerobic energy.
Next we need some way of measuring and visualizing our state of anerobic reserve. This can be done live on-bike or after the ride by analyzing registered power files.
Exhaustion / Recuperation
Anaerobic exhaustion is a state whereby the athlete has totally spent all of his of anaerobic capacity, or whereby lactic glycolysis has spent all available glycogen.
There may be a great number of reasons for global fatigue but anaerobic exhaustion is the only one that appears on a relatively short time, and from which an athlete can recover in short time, say a few minutes.
Let us use the notation W’ for the total amount or anaerobic capacity, and W'bal for the actual anaerobic reserve.
In order to understand the dynamics of anaerobic EXREC - EXhaustion - RECovery we need to answer the questions
1. How fast is our anaerobic reserve depleted upon riding at a certain power. Otherwise, how much of the total power is anaerobic?
2. When and how fast do we recover W'bal?
