If I'm running vo2 max 400 meters at the right intensity how hard should my level of respiration be?
Should I be "sucking wind"?, or just breathing noticeably hard?
From a subjective view point I'm not sure what my exertion level should be.
Penny for your thoughts.
2:1 on the start. 1:1 by mid-interval. Depends on interval length, volume and recovery as well. If you're doing shorter intervals, the higher ratios will apply. And, as always, in the end, it should be like a race.
I just did 9 x 400 @ 88 second pace 2 minute recovery(yesterday morning), and I was hardly breathing, although it "felt" like a decent effort.
What are your current race paces for mile, 5k, etc.?
breath in every other right foot strike, and breath in on the other right foot strikes, shouldn't be in huge O2 debt but VO2 max it is maxing your oxygen delivery system
bedellympian wrote:
breath in every other right foot strike, and breath in on the other right foot strikes, shouldn't be in huge O2 debt but VO2 max it is maxing your oxygen delivery system
Nonsense. Breath as you need to breath. We are not dogs who need to coordinate our breathing with footstrikes.
VO2max intervals should induce some pretty hard breathing with very high ventilation rates.