What do you think/feel is actually fatiguing? Legs, Arms or overall fitness? Or your mind?I think anything like intervals / fartlek or hill reps (longer hills, not sprints) as well as downhill trail runs would help train the mind.
As a climber I rarely get arm/hand pump when friends are complaining of it.
I was watching the worlds time trial champs last week and Marcus Backsted was providing the commentary. It was an out and back course with a howling back wind on the return leg and they were hitting 70 to 80 kmh on the flat. Marcus was pointing out that it is easy to work power on uphill efforts but really hard to sustain your power when you are going downhill. He was suggesting motor pacing for this and trying to pedal fast rather than over gearing it.If this is not an option you find a half mile straight bit of road which goes slightly down hill. Ride as hard you can try different gear options spinning or grinding. Slowly pedal back between goes.Also you do efforts going the other way trying remain seated.
Quote from: Liamhutch89 on September 30, 2020, 12:27:31 pmAs a climber I rarely get arm/hand pump when friends are complaining of it. Then why do you ever fall off routes?
This should say: 'As a climber who has well conditioned forearms compared to a non climber, I rarely get arm/hand pump whilst riding an average DH track where most people would get some/more arm pump'
When I was training with Gym Jones
Short duration interval training on a stationary bike or turbo trainer.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, the problem with anything running related in this case is specificity. Running training in most of its forms gets you good at one thing - running. ...There might be some aerobic benefit of running for you, but I'm not sure it's most efficient way of improving.
As someone else mentioned, check out Ben Cathro's videos - he's been putting a lot of effort into fitness and training.