Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy View Post
Quote from Fred Matheny (a well respected cycling coach): " No Man's Land" (NML) workouts provide a kinaesthetic sense of working hard but expose the rider to too much stress per unit gain. Instead most base training should be guilt-producingly easy, and the top-end, high intensity training (HIT) should be very mentally hard, not sort of hard".
Are you sure you are reading this correctly ?
Seems to me that these comments are directed at the psychological aspects of training; "stress", "guilt", "mentally hard",
not the physical