Another question (but I think the episode may have come out today): I was listening to an older user questions episode and there was a question about doing aerobic workouts in your race modality (I think it was trail running) and doing the VO2max workouts in a different modality (in this case it was rowing). If I understood it correctly, in terms of VO2max benefit the modality shouldn’t matter. If you’re a runner and do VO2max or HIIT workouts on a bike, in the pool, or on an rowing machine, you will get similar benefits in terms of VO2max. Question 1: did I understand that correctly?
Question 2 (may not be strictly VO2max related): If I did understand that correctly and I’m training mostly for 5k and 10k running races, what is the tradeoff if I do my 30/30s on an indoor bike? Are long aerobic runs enough to build running form efficiency? Are the strength and conditioning sessions enough to build running strength? Or is the best approach to stick with the adage that ‘to run fast, you have to run fast’ ? Hope that makes sense…