INCREASING VOLUME? DO THIS FIRST!!

Increased your training volume but you’re not getting faster? 🤔
You have to be EATING ENOUGH to allow adaptations to occur. 🥙🥗🌯🌮🥪🍗
Don’t cut yourself short.
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[@richardmiddleton7770]

Just remember that higher volume usually means reduced intensity so the calorie demands won't be much different. You can't increase volume AND intensity and simply eat more to compensate, it's not sustainable.

[@NotGoingToReadYourReply]

No, it really depends. When athletes talk about "volume" they are often referring to different things. One person may be talking about hours (or miles) and another may be talking about training load using some metric that includes both time and intensity (e.g. TSS). Increasing load by increasing either time or intensity implies the need for a caloric increase to compensate.
On the one hand you're somewhat correct in that it's not sustainable to indefinitely increasing training load, but on the other hand if your training load isn't ever increasing then you aren't "training." Once your body has adapted to a certain load then failure to increase it further means you're merely maintaining your current fitness.

[@user-dk7ez9vi6f]

Yes obviously you can what you said is very dumb, if your doing 10 hours a week at 200w you can build up to doing 15 hours a week at 200w sustainably. It’s called getting fitter

[@Al.2]

You can add more zone 2, which burns a lot of calories per hour. You don't burn much more at threshold and above, and you spend comparatively little time there.

[@messi9991]

Dumb take. You could do the same as before but add 2 zone 2 rides a week. There is your volume increase. And the calories burnt is exactly increased by those 2 rides. Increasing volume doesn't mean lowering intensity in absolute terms, only possible in relative terms to overall training time.

[@DEAR7340]

@@Al.2 That's my experience. The kJ's I pedal in a Z2 ride are not much different than the kJ's from a hard interval ride, indoor or out.