Gabriele Gallo, PhD

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Durability 🚴

In the last year of my PhD at Auckland University of Technology, we asked 12 trained cyclists to ride at 90% of their first ventilatory threshold (VT1) until exhaustion.

Two riders lasted 6 hours.
One stopped after just 2 hours.

What struck me the most?
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The higher the baseline self-rated mental stress in life, the lower the VO2max increase following a given training cycle.
Mindset, mental skills and life organization can impact training adaptations.

I think that in endurance sports, especially for non-professional athletes with low training volumes, monitoring physical activity across 24 hours provides a more meaningful picture of total 'training' load than tracking structured training sessions alone.