Today I did the #NEW Bavaria: Burgberg workout. First of all, Sir Standsalot, are you nuts? 22 10sec sprints? Ugh. Oy. Well, whether you are nuts or not, I took it on today. Let me start by saying that consecutive, high power, high cadence sprints are not my strength and had I attempted these at the prescribed power level I would have have been toast just half way through the first 8 sprints so I dialed them down to a level that would push me hard while at the same time allowing me to complete all of them at the prescribed cadence without totally destroying myself which would have resulted in several of the sprints not being completed. I did, however, increase the power over the course of the workout and dialed up the last two sprints back up to 100% and completed them, out of the saddle, at full power and above the prescribed cadence. Again, consecutive, high power, high cadence sprints and intervals are not my forte hence why I avoid workouts such as Violator and The Shovel.
oooh sprinty! Nice work, Sir!
Based on recommendations by @Coach.Mac.C and Coach Neal on one of their podcasts, I try to do Violator once per quarter. I have done that so far for 7 consecutive quarters, but not yet this quarter.
@Glen.Coutts Thank you Sir.
Thought I was the only one that struggled with this workout…
Not the typical on location
I did it last weekend. And trying to do those low cadence sprints was almost impossible. That takes a lot of practice!
The OL vids can be sneaky little devils. Some of them are, arguably, harder than some SUF vids. The kind where you get through it, just.
100%. Yesterday I did “On Location - Catalunya: Pt. 2 - Pobla to Coll de Creuetta”. It didn’t actually look that difficult. But man, the over/under and then the high/low cadence exercises were surprisingly hard. 
Nope. You are not the only one!
@Jan Yep. They are surprisingly hard! Well done for completing it!
Just did this today. For the high cadence seated sprints, the target was 822W, I managed a 798W max on one of them 
. My 10s avg on the sprints was 585W. Room for growth lol
I just tried this for the first time today and, to be honest, I think it doesn’t really work.
Long story short, the whole faffing about with getting the right trainer “slope” setting and gearing for ten seconds full and fifty basically “coasting” makes it much more of a chore than just going outside and doing sets (because I tried ERG and boy was that a mistake).
It feels like you’d need to do the workout several times to work out your “optimal” settings to get the most out of the session, and to me that seems to defeat the point of having an ERG trainer, which I largely bought because I was getting fed up of doing that with a “regular” trainer!
Bit of a waste of a good “On Location”! I think you’re better off going outside for this sort of effort and making it properly realistic.
Surely this one should be marked as level mode? I wonder how many people can do seated sprints at a value set at 90% of NM in ERG (particularly at low cadence).
I definitely couldn’t 
Had to dial it down 10% and then it was tough still.
Sounds like up my alley! I suck at high cadence out of saddle, but somehow am a hill climber!
(i.e. I can go harder than people may expecte. But only out of the saddle, for a few minutes. And only once )
I really wish they would give us an easy button for switching between erg and a predetermined slope mode so we don’t have to faff around with multiple clicks while dying.
I know…next Monday…
If you’re using a PC or Mac there’s a keyboard shortcut for that. Numbers 1-9 for each level and the squiggly thing ~ for Erg.
The keyboard short cuts also work on iOS (iPad).
Good to know. Now I need a sweatproof keyboard…
(Edit: They’re cheaper than anticipated. Cool)
I have a remote app on my phone that controls my MacBook and it works really really well for just that same purpose. And for adjusting intensity on the fly as well (only up of course 
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Interesting. I guess if you find a good slope and gear for the efforts, you can flip into the slope mode for those and flip back to ERG mode for recovery, where the gear can just stay where it is because erg will take care of that. I have a bluetooth mouse/keyboard app on the phone so this might work quite well.
A useful feature would be to be able to pre-set these I guess but that’s nice-to-have rather than essential.
The trick with this must really be that they are supposed to be “Sprints” as in from moving, not like in a standing start, which are two very different things.