[adam.don]

Hi Scott, thanks a lot for the replies. I tried to post a reply to you, but I am having trouble with the Forum saying I have already replied with a message. I’ll try to fix it but I hope I haven’t doubled up, anyawy, this was my response.

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Thanks Scott, I really appreciate the responses. I’ll do my best to try ‘feel’ out my metablolic zones while using the HR zones as a guide. I think I am getting better at that as I get more experience in this type of training so I’ll continue with that. I guess being conscious of heat increasing HR for a given metabolic stress and trying to relate that day to day will help me more than just blindly following a number for a zone.

Ok thanks for the feedback on the my training plan, I think I’ll really focus on the ME block when I get to it, and I have a gym membership so I can do the majority of my uphil caries on the stair master. I do have a couple additional questions re ME and the plan

– Do you think 1 session per week, and just increasing the load and / or time is the way to progress, rather than two sessions per week (especially since I haven’t done any structured ME before)?

– When I transition to ME, should I entirely stop Max strength / other strength work? Or should I try to do a bit as a warmup say or an entirely seperate session contiuing it on? I suppoe when I move from max strength to ME, I can cut down the amount of strength work I am doing and then do some for a warmup, and maybe some conditioning strength (like the Knees Over Toes Workouts) as a supplement?

Many thanks Scott, I am so glad to have found this community, I look forward to spending more time in it and learning and applying as much as possible. I also wanted to say I love the podcast, and all the articles you produce, keep doing what you’re doing, we all greatly appreciate it and the mountain community is a lot better off for it.

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