What I think about ERG Mode

This is a highly talked about topic URGKG mode or not to urgge mode and it depends on the type of intervals you're doing. Now before URGK mode existed, you know, we all did our intervals just fine. We looked at our power on our bike computer and we pedal harder, pedal easier. So, and we learned how to like do intervals by feel.

When URGK mode came along and people just let the power the the smart trainer control their waters, they forgot how to do it and they they got dumb. They couldn't feel what a threshold interval felt like outdoors. And so like when you're doing your standing starts like I did yesterday, you got to turn the URGK mode off. Those are just ballistic sprints.

The the transition from you know, that big power drop, it doesn't really work. But in the context of say you just want to do 3x10 sweet spot and zone out and watch a movie, urg mode is fine. It'll keep you right there and you can just concentrate on where you can just zone out, which is sometimes what you need in a workout. But if you're doing V2 max intervals or one minute or anything hard, you need to turn the URGK mode off because you need to do those by your own how your body is feeling.

If you're on a good day, you want to push harder. If you're on a bad day, you need to give yourself some grace and maybe pedal 510 watts less. And the her mode messes that up. And a lot of people do do workouts and it's a little too hard and they're like, I suck and they quit.

And that's that's unfortunate because that's the URGK mode. That's not using your range. We don't we prescribe training in ranges 240, 265. We never prescribe training in precise.

You got to hit 253. Your body doesn't really work that way. So, it just kind of depends. I would encourage you to experiment with both and do not get beholden to use it mode 100% of the time, especially for long endurance rides.

Like if we like if you wanted to do this ride and you tried to do it in URGK mode, not possible. This is about variable power. Seth, hope that answers your question and didn't make it more complicated.

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