I usually do one, sometimes two of these workouts (morning and evening) per day.
I’ve done it for the last 5 months only missing maybe 2-3 days total.
I’m still alive!
Are your performances improving?
Define improving performance.
I was going to let you define it.
I assume you’re a training masochist who does these workouts for their own sake rather than to maximize any kind of performance, but I’m curious if you’re seeing improvements in anything. You’re an interesting case-study, because this training is way outside the norms.
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April fools? 
The fact is that I’m hitting PR’s on climbs that I’ve been working on for over a decade. The greatest part about this training is it can be done on under 13 hours a week and between meetings at the home office.
I dont waste endless time noodling around at <175 watts. Every one of my rides moves me forward. They never wear me out completely. This did not feel liek a hard ride whatsoever because it’s only 75 minutes. I focus more on meeting my KJ in zone goal over a 90 day time frame. Consistency is the key. If you zoom out properly, you will never feel liek a ride is hard but all your rides will be just hard enough.
My philosophy is that you gain your training adaptation wihtin 6 hours of your ride. So make your ride as hard and as frequent as possibly while monitoring and moving forward your long term trends. My optimization is the quantity of post hard-ride hours I experience in a given week.
Darn, I was legitimately curious if there was some kind of hyper-fatigued state where the chosen few could unlock forbidden gains!
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If an hour ride, twice a day, at 93% IF doesn’t wear you out? Then your FTP is set too low.
it does. I dont do it 14x per week.
I usually do one, sometimes two of these workouts (morning and evening) per day.
do you know what sometimes means?
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What’s the structure of this workout? 4 sets of 4 x 30s sprints?
I just loved the title of your post. Perfect. … and I did a streak last year of cycling (purposefully! sometimes round trip commutes only) for 26 weeks and 3 days… averaging about 150 miles per week.
chappeau to your training
How’s your outdoor training?
These are mostly custom activity fields I made with custom code.
Don’t come here telling us you don’t train a lot or it’s not that hard because you are training 13 hours a week. I’m doing 11-14 hours a week, and that’s two 3-4 hour rides on the weekend and 1-2 hours 3-4 during the week.
That’s a lot of training for the average working person. So you aren’t doing more with less.
What would be useful for you is to stop coming here and bragging about your workouts (because that is what you are in fact doing), and try doing what most people would advise. Which is doing about 2 of your current workouts a week, and then just doing the same remaining volume at 50-60% of your FTP.
Seriously, I think you’d see even better performance if you cut this macho David Goggins BS and trained smarter.
You may find yourself pleasantly surprised that you can get better riding easier. Or maybe actually riding less.
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Fabric5000, I think what you could have said is it angers you a lot.