Heat Training
50 min
Easy intensity
Keep heat or altitude adaptations with an easy, fully overdressed 50-minute spin at 50% of CP, on a double day or after a hard session. Easy legs, moderate heat stress.
CORE Body Temperature Sensor
Partner
Heat Training
50 min
Easy
3 / 10
Beginner
Indoors
The session
The workout
Written as a share of critical power, so it fits every rider. In Vekta it becomes your watts, with the W′ cost shown before you ride.
CORE Body Temperature Sensor
Why this workout
The breakdown
Inside the workout
A science-backed way to keep heat adaptations, or altitude gains, once they are made, while the legs recover from harder days. The power is low; the stimulus comes from being fully overdressed. Easy days easy, hard days hard.
Fifty minutes, forty of them at 50% of CP after a short ramp. It fits on a double day, the day after a long ride, or straight after a normal session, where it can be cut to thirty-five or forty minutes. The heat stress is moderate and arrives towards the end, which is the intended effect.
With a CORE sensor, Vekta records core temperature and the Heat Strain Index through the session, so maintenance can be judged on the temperature actually reached rather than on how many layers were worn.
Once or twice a week after a heat block, or in the weeks after an altitude camp. Hydrate as for any heat session.
Heat Training
Stimulus
Beginner
Workout level
Indoors
Best ridden
Indoor and e-racing,
DISCIPLINE
WHAT YOU NEED
The stimulus
Heat Training, explained
Controlled sessions at a raised core temperature, to adapt to heat and grow plasma volume.
What it is
Indoor or hot-weather sessions ridden to a core-temperature target rather than a power target, often with a CORE sensor: the intensity is adjusted to reach and hold a set temperature for a set time.
Why it matters
Heat adaptation raises plasma volume, lowers heart rate at a given power and improves performance in the heat and, for most riders, in temperate conditions too. It is one of the few adaptations available in ten to fourteen days.
These are uncomfortable rather than hard: the power is moderate and the sensation is the heat. Hydrate before, weigh yourself after, and stop if you feel unwell. The sessions here are written by the people who make the sensor.
Prescribe by core temperature and duration, not by power. The Heat Strain Index stream in Vekta shows the athlete's response in the session and across a block.
Vekta reads the CORE sensor as a stream alongside power and heart rate, so the session is analysed against the temperature target it was written for.
Common questions
Do I need a core temperature sensor?
How many sessions to adapt?
Is heat training safe?
Free for coaches. Test with your whole roster during the trial.