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Re:Workouts: when and how much 6 Months, 1 Week ago Karma: 13  
That is a huge pile of question! I obviously can't tell you exactly what to do because I am not your coach but I can give you some guidelines on a way to manage these types of workouts.

I think you are better off to work on one thing at a time. I think "strength" can be improved witht he strength workouts and LT type workouts. These also tend to be more "aerobic" type work.

VO2 max and max power work tends to delve into anaerobic systems, so I will put them in a seperate pile.

When you work on strength and aerobic fitness gains you can probably do a bit more volume as this type of intensity is lower than when you are working on maximum power and speed. Therefore, I think the strength work can be incorporated into the "_base_" or winter portion of your season. As I have said before, _base_ does not need to be garbage and nothing miles. However, if part of your _base_ preparation includes increased volume for mileage, you need to keep intensity down.

In the _base_ phase of your season, I would build a program workint on strength and LT. Building the amount of work over a number of weeks, planning some recovery.

As you progress towards race season, then you can start to work on your VO2 max and Power. As you race, you maintain your aerobic strength and LT, so you can do all of your specific work on speed and power. These workouts require a significant amount of recovery and volume does not work well with this kind of work. However, when you do some of it along with racing you can improve well over a period of weeks.

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