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Hello,

I am doing the 24-week mountaineering program and am struggling to stay below my AeT (118-120, 42F) when doing the ‘steep’ and ‘hilly’ sessions, which I’m doing using fire stairs. I am climbing excruciatingly slowly, like one step every 3 – 5 secs, pausing at the top of the flight to bring AeT down, and even so I am averaging a little over my AeT (123) and significantly higher at times (143 max). I could easily go faster and at higher intensity for the required length of the sessions, but HR would be high.

I can keep it in check more easily doing incline treadmill, which I’m doing for the ‘long’ sessions, but I feel doing stairs is important to my training.

I have a near-term climbing goal with stair-like sections and I won’t have the luxury of going that slow, but do want to follow the program as best I can to train my aerobic endurance properly for longer-term goals.

Do I need to choose between re-training my aerobic capacity, and stairs, until my aerobic capacity improves?

Thanks,

Ali

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