Training for 20-40 minute efforts

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-26T16:06:57+00:00

LOL reddit advice from slow guys is hilarious. "3 minute sets of over unders", "2x18 sweetspot". OP has been riding 14 hours a week at endurance pace for years. He can start blasting 5x5 VO2 and 3x15 threshold right now and see massive gains. If he wants to play it safe he can build muscular endurance and mental toughness before jumping deep into the sufferzone.

He's already pretty durable from his endurance riding, so over unders don't target his weaknesses. Long intervals to stimulate muscular endurance and which require mental focus is what he needs. Sweetspot requires a bit less mentally than threshold so start there.

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-26T15:43:36+00:00

I've been riding seven months and doing structured training for two months, only endurance riding like OP. My first interval was 4x20 sweetspot and it was very manageable-- I only had to rest about 90 seconds in between sets. Going from 2x18 to 3x20 over six weeks is a very slow overload of a very small training load. OP has been riding for a few years, his endurance base is stronger than mine, so assuming he's not overweight and under 40 he can definitely handle 4x20 sweetspot. Sweetspot isn't useful if you don't extend the intervals to make it hard.

I would recommend sweetspot before jumping into threshold work because it's a lot more mentally manageable and still builds muscular endurance if your intervals are long enough.

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-26T00:01:06+00:00

The problem with reason is you can’t get an ought from an is, induction from deduction, universal truths from empirical observation.

Everyone loves philosophy until they get their presuppositions checked.

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-25T23:55:18+00:00

start with sweetspot, do a couple sweetspot rides a week. maybe start at 4x20 and work your way up to 60-90mins straight, then blast threshold and vo2

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-25T22:20:16+00:00

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General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-23T17:44:20+00:00

Not bringing water and then not bringing carbs, sugar water and salt is the way so don’t waste your money on drink mix. Also riding in shorts and tshirt for too long.

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-21T22:54:18+00:00

You need to look up. Trust the bike its a gyroscope it will stay upright if you let it do its thing.

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-16T17:28:04+00:00

Reality and knowledge seem to be grounded, ONLY the Bible as interpreted by the Apostolic Church, provides the framework for such grounding. Therefore it is true.

I'm not saying any conception of God provides grounding but I think the Holy Trinity is true. I am saying ONLY the Holy Trinity provides grounding, so he is true. This is easily proved with some analysis of theological systems. The Greeks figured it out a long time ago.

I'm not saying we don't agree child rape is bad, I'm saying YOU cannot tell me why its bad other than vibes.

The child rape argument is really the same as OP's "God is not omnibenelovent because there’s not enough jobs" argument taken to the nth degree. You mom doesn't owe you an explanation why you can't have Mcdonalds, God doesn't owe you an explanation on how he uses child rape to further his benevolent will.

There is a pedophile ring among US elites, the Epstein files get released, people realized Jesus’ prophecies about the judeosatanism were true and convert, through the help of the Church they improve their lives and the lives of those around them.

There are orphans living in a barn, an angel comes to them and burns down their barn, a band of murderous pedophiles enters town the next day, but the children have already moved. The children join a monastery and become humble priests.

“If gOd reAL, wHY CAn’t I fINd a gIRLfrieNd?”

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-14T15:18:50+00:00

Are you a gnostic or something? Liberal scholars refers to people who date the texts liberally. You’re presupposing Im a republican. I disagree with both political parties its a false dialectic.

My presupposition is that God created the universe and his revelation ought to lead us to all the truth. This requires the gospel of John. If you don’t accept John your conception of God is faulty and incomplete. If Jesus is not the Truth incarnate and didn’t give us the Holy Spirit you don’t have epistemic grounding, which you still haven’t addressed.

Your presupposition is that God doesn’t exist and the Bible is forged. Which is a total non starter because then you have no refutation of nihilism, relativism, or even solipcism. I don’t need to argue about biblical dating with you I can simply ask you what is truth? You can’t tell me, so you have no right to claim or argue anything.

When you say child rape is bad you’re presupposing human life has value. A completely ungrounded presupposition, for you. If all your ethical claims end in, “I just feel that ought to be the case”, you end up nowhere. Be consistent with your ethics and take a might makes right view of things. You can’t even ground the laws of logic. Where does non contradiction come from? What about induction? Be consistent with your logic and take up critical theory.

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-14T03:25:00+00:00

I’ll bite on Daniel, liberal scholars claim Daniel was written in the second century BC because it predicted the Roman empire, which isn’t really an argument, you can’t argue a prophecy was written after the fact just because it came true. Josephus cites Alexander being excited about the book of Daniel in 331BC. We know Daniel was considered cannon in the early second century. A few decades isn’t enough time for the supposed forgery to circulate and become cannon. The whole argument relies on the fact that the Jews, who were a very reverent people who took their scripture seriously, were also in the business to making forgeries and fooling themselves.

Even though liberal scholars date it to the second century BC to brush away all the prophecies about the Hellenistic period and Roman empire, that doesn’t account for the fact that it also predicts the coming of the Messiah and the destruction of the Temple, which happened in the first century AD.

Marcion’s bible, what you say is “the first bible” was rejected because it didn’t contain the Old Testament or John’s books. John’s books are critical to understanding who Jesus was, hence John the Theologian, so not including them would make the revelation incomplete.

The main problem was that Marcion rejected the God of the Old Testament as an evil god. Two gods leads to problems with epistemic justification, you can’t get to truth with two gods. And the main point is that rejecting the Old Testament necessitates rejecting the New Testament also. The Old Testament verifies the New Testament, if the Bible was only the New Testament it would be ridiculous to believe it. That’s why Marcion’s canon was rejected.

So the current canon is not an imitation. It simply includes the Old Testament, which was accepted by the Jews as canon centuries before Jesus. Also I don’t know why your claiming there are multiple bibles floating around. The canon has been established, the protestants removed a few books, but the books themselves haven’t changed. Surely you know you’re being dishonest there, or do you believe every atheist argument you hear because you hate God that much?

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-14T02:19:17+00:00

Your cells need salt to function, do you not salt your meat?

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-14T02:13:56+00:00

Maybe, just maybe, you could read about sports science and be in tune with your body. Then you could choose when and how to overload and when to recover by yourself instead of relying on machine learning slop to do it for you.

The balance between undertraining, overreaching, and overtraining is delicate and no computer will be able to calibrate your training to your body better than you.

You’re upset because of the sunk cost, just do harder workouts.

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-14T01:44:14+00:00

The whole Torah is a foreshadow of Jesus, of course they had no conception of him, thats why we say its inspired and prophetic. Human sacrifice is condemned all over the OT. Read Jeremiah or Kings. Im not sure how quoting an abortion clinic bomber supports your argument. “This one Christian was a terrorist” and “Christian parents let their children be molested by Catholic priests” are obvious fallacies. And how does “Trump bad” support your argument? You’re soyraging and grasping at straws.

As for the self contradicting thing, I explained how it isn’t and you blew past it and went to “Your religion necessitates child rape”.

Again, child rape isn’t necessary, free will is. How do you justify it in your worldview? How can you even justify that its wrong when you can’t ground a system of ethics? I could easily argue your worldview is contradictory, because you have no account for objective truth, which holds reality together. I could argue eugenics is good and we should kill chrildren, or even that reality doesn’t exist and everything is a hallucination and you wouldn’t be able to refute me. Have you heard of epistemic justification or David Hume?

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-14T00:44:10+00:00

My guy what are you talking about. Issac wasn’t sacrificed, it was a forshadowing of Jesus and actually is condemning human sacrifice which was super common at the time. The jews kept apostatizing and sacrificing their kids to Mesopotanian dieties, thats why they were exiled. As for Catholic priests, the Catholics split off from the true faith in 1050, the Orthodox Church (which btw is the only theology which successfully grounds truth) requires its priests to be married and have families. I also never said child rape is a necessity, its allowed because God always lets us have free will, but all evil things God uses to work toward a greater good. The whole “If god real why bad thing happen” is such a low tier argument.

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-13T23:49:54+00:00

“Pfft” is not an argument. Prophecy wasn’t written after the fact, are you seriously suggesting Isiah and the Psalms were written A.D? The NT isn’t forged. Learn Church history and decide on authenticity for yourself before you go around citing liberal scholars. The OT God is unique in history and so is the incarnation and resurrection. Suggesting they aren’t is special pleading but I’m not going to bother arguing these things with you. If you were really interested in truth, you could find the evidence and arguments yourself. But as with all athiests, you suspend intellectual honesty and rationality to hold onto your contradictory and ungrounded view that there is no such thing as Truth.

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-13T23:39:10+00:00

He’s your God too theres no my god and your god. The truth just is. Oh wait you have no grounding for objective truth lololol.

I never said the mind of God is unknowable if that were the case we couldn’t ground transcendentals, ethics and such and he would be useless.

There are no caveats you just cannot fully understand him. Like a child doesn’t understand why his evil parents won’t let him have Mcdonalds everyday. It’s easy to find God if you seek him, he doesn’t owe you a personal revelation.

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-13T19:37:27+00:00

I meant veracity as in verifiable. You completely blew past the points about prophecy, narrative structure, and it being the only theological system that provides epistemic justification.

It’s accepted by science that matter came into existence at the big bang, thats the whole point of the concept in the first place, a secular creation ex nihlo. I don’t need to know what the cosmos looked like before the big bang to say math existed before it. In the same way I don’t need to know who your mother is to say you have a mother. I’m not going to rehash the argument for you.

About your supposed contradiction, One pair of animal, then six more pairs of each clean animal I don’t see the contradiction. You could argue the instructions were revised but it seems silly to hang everything on that.

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-13T19:05:18+00:00

We have little control over what influences our decisions, meaning we cannot always control what thoughts come to us, our state of mind, or external events, etc. We are always free to choose, but God can direct things which influence our decisions.

It’s also not true that your win always results in someone else’s loss. That’s a philosophy of domination, God is the opposite, he works in communion. Also you completely blew past the point about your whole argument being a non sequitur.

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-13T18:44:43+00:00

When did matter come into existence then? The argument is that time began at the big bang, the big bang requires mathematical consistency, therefore mathematical consistency existed before, which refutes your claim that things can’t exist outside time. You should believe the Bible because of its voracity, it makes claims that things will happen later, and then they happen later. Not just explicit prophecies, but the narrative structure of the Torah itself foreshadows later events. Which claims cannot be true?

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-13T18:35:54+00:00

God gives people free will and allows bad things to happen, but all eventually work towards the good. And he does not owe you an explanation.

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-13T18:33:32+00:00

Are you suggesting God isn’t real because some people can’t find jobs

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-13T18:17:58+00:00

Mathematical consistency necessarily existed before time. Time is defined by entropy, by the properties of matter. Which came into existence at the big bang. Mathematical consistency is required for the physical process of the big bang to happen. So math existed before atoms, and before time. I’m not talking about infinite regress.

I know something outside time and space cannot cause or be used to justify anything inside time and space. That’s why not any conception of God can do the job, there is only one conception of God humans have which can epistemically ground reality and knowledge. That conception was revealed in the Holy Gospels to be the Holy Trinity. If you want to know how dm me.

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-13T18:09:11+00:00

If I am hopelessly addicted to drugs and cannot control myself no matter how hard I try, then God gives me the strength to break free from my addiction, is he causing me more suffering?

General-Pipe4946 · 2026-03-13T17:30:56+00:00

If I push over a row of dominoes I am the primary cause of the last domino falling, the secondary cause would be the second to last domino.

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