I am a 62 he old experienced road and CX rider, competed at National level and new to TR. A question I have is whether the age of a rider is taken into account when determining the selection of workouts in a training plan. From experience I am aware of the need for additional rest and to keep inten…

Welcome @Raythebike . I’m 54 with likely less of an endurance training history than you have. I’ve found that in general I can tune the plans with either dropping one of the intensity days (2 vs 3) or by going with a reduced versions. I also make the easy days easier. This lets me train 5 days with …

You should consider doing some minor rearranging, by moving to a 2 weeks on and 1 week recovery (instead of 5/1 for base, and 3/1 for build).

At 57, I do the low volume SS base plan (so 3 sessions/wk), and add one session if/when I can. I know my knee won’t hold up if I ramp up volume/intensity too fast, but so far (4 weeks into it) so good. If needed I’ll change the periodicity to 3/1 (i.e. adding a rest/easy week after every 3 weeks). I…

… and the funny thing is Max HR - which for the first time in my life is getting close to the darn 220-age formula. I’ve always had a low max HR, but it has slowly dropped (about 160 as well now).

I’m 51 with an extensive background in long distance running and tri’s, but w/ a 10 year layoff (~2006-2016) due to chronic fatigue syndrome (now in remission). I’ve been doing TR for about 6 weeks (SSB mid volume for full distance tri), and find the workouts to be dead on in terms of intensity and …

Here are two options that I have documented. I am using Option 2 and it is great for me, at 47 yo. [image] Alternate Sweet Spot Base, Work : Recovery Week Layout Training The following are some possible adjustments that can be made to the Sweet Spot Base plans. The goal …

@Raythebike I’m probably not too dissimilar from you: 61, and while not a national level competitor, I have been training with an elite cycling team for the past 3 years (i.e. lots of volume at a “spirited” level). I’m 6 months into TR and here are a couple of tips that worked for me: While kno…

For the Alternate plans, do you build them manually using the work/recovery template? I’ve added my races into the Calendar and will adjust my workouts to suit them in terms of warm up rides, endurance and VO2 rides etc.

I just apply the default plan, then shift weeks and copy weeks as needed. Then I do a bit more juggling to get Ramp tests at the start of each load cycle, but that isn’t required.

I recently started modifying workouts with workout creator. I’m 60 with ftp 264 and last weekend in the HIM low volume build plan (that this is my 4th season for) I did Frissel +1 and realized I had not done it before. Maybe this is new to the HIM plan, but it could be I was injured by this point …

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mcneese.chad February 8, 2019, 10:02pm 7

Here are two options that I have documented. I am using Option 2 and it is great for me, at 47 yo.

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