Hi there. Does plan builder and by extension Adaptive training take into account a persons age when building a plan or adapting?? Like, I’m 48 yrs old now, have been a competitive cyclist for about 35 of those years. And although i think there are aspects to my fitness now that are better than th…

No on age, pick lv and adjust as needed by adding more volume if you can If you like endurance stuff do Traditional Base plans as those are my go to plans and find they are quite good.

Yeah so as I suspected really. Cheers.

[image] SJB: But looking at plan builder and its suggested 4 big sweet spot workouts a week in the base phase, i reckon id start to get run down after a few weeks of that. [image] SJB: But im wondering is the plan, plan builder sets for someone my age different than a 21yr old?? i guess i…

[image] mcalista: If you are completing workouts comfortably, it will give you harder workouts. If you are struggling to complete the workouts, it will give you easier workouts. And the harder and easier adaptions may differ for say, sweet spot versus VO2Max workouts, depending on how you respon…

Age is just a number, at 45 there are some 50-60 year olds far faster/ stronger than me and similarly I’m stronger than some 20-30 year old. What AT will do is take age out of the equation and look at your individual performance bespoke to you at the time.

But @SJB is right in some ways: PB and AT will not alter the structure of plans in response to our desires to do, say, 3 weeks on / 1 week recovery or no more than 2 or 3 hard sessions per week. At this stage, at least, all that AT will do is modify the individual workouts. There are work arounds. @…

[image] SJB: But looking at plan builder and its suggested 4 big sweet spot workouts a week in the base phase, i reckon id start to get run down after a few weeks of that. I second @ericallenboyd ’s suggestion: lower your volume and pad your training plan with Z2 workouts and/or extend the few…

TR might be a tough go for you as it is me. I’ve been training and racing fir nearly as long as you (31 years) and three intense days per week (yeah I’m calling 94%of FTP intense) is all I can handle. It cuts your riding down to 4 1/2 hours per week and even then can bury you. Now that we can actua…

[image] Joe: Most of the people doing these plans are experiencing noob gains Yes 31 years is a lot more than me! But I have had good gains with AT coming off 5 years of TR… I don’t think that counts as noob gains although your perspective may differ :smiley: If you select an LV plan you wil…

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No, it doesn’t take age into account (nor a host of other potential factors). This has been discussed at length in several threads, e.g. this one:

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Age and adaptive training plans

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