AVDP is one of my favorites, despite my VO2 weakness. I always struggle, but the sound track motivates me. And one of my self-encouragements as the clock winds down in other videos I don’t like (TBITW!) is once it hits the 4-minute mark: You can do this–that’s less than one interval in AVDP!
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I used a very similar self-encouragement, yesterday. First I told myself there were only 5 intervals. I can do 5 intervals and they’re not all at 100% MAP. I can do 5 MAP-focused intervals at lower than 100%.
Then after that there was only 4 more. Then only 3 more. And if I can make it though the next one then there’s just one more. And then the last one I just needed to make it through and I would be done.
Somehow that worked. It’s weird how that works. lol
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Thanks, I’d totally missed that discussion. That explains a lot
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hello dear sufferlandarians,
i did today my first avdp,
and it was good.
so good that my hr didn’t want to go in zone 5, my average hr was 142
I only burnt 358 cal,
is it the training effect or is something wrong?
i like these kind of workouts, like half is easy, team scream, revolver
and I was always at my limit,
but today it was … to easy?
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Have you updated your power numbers recently? From your description, it sounds like the workout was easier than it should have been.
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my next hm is in two weeks,
so maybe I will do it after the hm again
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The day before yesterday Half Monty and new numbers. Today A verdy dark place awaits me today… . Yes I’m afraid of the dark!! 
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