3 x 20 mins @ sweet spot = 60mins @ sweet spot?

[mcneese.chad]

Definitely not 80/20 in TR.

Some light reading for you.

Polarized Training Discussion (Fast Talk podcast & Flo Cycling podcast)

For those interested in polarized training, the latest podcast from the Flo Cycling guys has a detailed discussion on the topic. I usually stream the podcast, but decided to download it so I can listen again later (sometimes it takes me a couple of times to understand all of a topic). Pretty interesting. Cheers.

Quality over Quantity vs. 80/20 (or Chad vs. Matt ;))

I’m under the impression that Jonathan, Nate and Chad are fans of Matt Fitzgerald so I’m especially curious about this. In his 80/20 triathlon book Matt takes the stance that an 80/20 easy to moderate/hard distribution gives you the biggest training effect even when only training 45 minutes per day on average. This is more or less the volume of a Olympic triathlon base low volume on Trainerroad and the distribution of load is clearly more heavy on the non-easy side than that - the argument being…

My Polarized Training Experience (Chad McNeese & others)

This is a documentation of my personal test using the Polarized Training approach for a 4-week period. It is a simple attempt at using this method with no actual scientific documentation and lacks a full attempt to make this wide reaching. I want to try this process in contrast to my 3 prior years of using the TR SST approaches. 4-Weeks Prior to POL Test Period: [image] [image] Long Z1 Workout - Vogelsang [image] 4-Week of POL Test Period (3 Build + 1 Recovery) & 1-Week with Ramp …