Training for Climbing

[hakuna]

I'm a rider with a sprinter's power profile, but this year I want to concentrate on developing my climbing. Obviously any excess weight needs to be shed, but my real question is about power training exercises for enhancing climbing ability. My guess is:

Climbing Intervals/Repeats at sub-Threshold (90-95%) LT
and long Climbs at a slightly lower %.

Is this right? I can stomp out stuff in the Anaerobic Level . . . it's sustained climbs that are my weakness.

The Ibike seems ideal for working on this....I only have the ISport, but I want to buy the upgrade to Pro.

Thanks,
Gary

[coachboyd]

The iSport will be perfect for this.

Do the fitness test. You will get your watts per kilogram result (w/kg), and a fitness ranking 1-10. Then there are intervals built in, based on your fitness test, to help you get better.

If you do the strength intervals, those are the perfect intervals to help your hill climbing as they work both your lactate threshold and your VO2 systems depending on which strength workout you choose.

The iPro and iAero also offer this option, and both of those you can download so you can track your improvements.

[hakuna]

Thanks Boyd,

So raising my lactate threshold is the key to riding extended climbs faster and I should train by using climbing intervals at the sub-threshold, threshold and occasionally in V02 max intervals. Does that sound about right?

Thanks again,
Gary