Methods and intentions for improving machine paces in metcons

I'm curious as to what methods or intentions people have used to help athletes improve their machine paces in metcons. Assuming the athlete can go long and sustain on a machine, and can sprint on a machine, and can do intervals on a machine, how do you then help them translate those paces to mixed fatigue work?

My idea is that the required machine paces to be competitive in the sport are not unknown variables. We can watch back footage of echo bike repeat workouts, row cal workouts etc and see the speeds of athletes getting on and off the machine. If a workout has hang power snatch, toes to bar, echo bike, and the athlete is wonderful with their transitions and sets for the hang power snatch and toes to bar, shouldn't you just prescribe the bike pace? So in your notes you would dictate bike pace to be 75rpm minimum, get to pace within 6 seconds of starting the bike.

What about for someone that can handle the pace, but not for the full volume? I did a workout the other day that involved intervals of row calorie, handstand walk, and power cleans. I need to improve my row speed in metcon style like that, so I dropped the calories from 20 to 15, but I my intention was that I had to row those 15 calories above 1400 cal/hr. I will plan to be able to eat more and more volume at a higher pace like this over time, which will be how I know that I am improving my fitness here.

What do you all think?

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