Firstly, I’m a fan of trialing this approach to periodization. So my feedback and thoughts are intended to progress it, not to kill it off. @tr.nate @ambermalika @CoachNate @coachchadtr My reading about Polarized is that the low intensity needs to be really low and lots of it throughout the whole…

I have read them and was happy to read the link and its links again. The TIZ approach I find hard to accept and I got the impression that Amber too, wasn’t convinced. Does it really make sense to count the recovery between VO2Max intervals as low intensity training? But that to one side, the vast m…

My general takeaway is that they might not be “capital P polarized.” But nobody can agree on what that is anyway. So they’re TR’s version of polarized, as opposed to the many other versions that are out there; TR feels this is the best way to apply the polarized distribution to their system and thei…

Disclaimer: I haven’t looked at the TR plans. For me, POL is ~80/20 in terms of session distribution, and ~90/10 in terms of time distribution. Unless you’re going for a deliberately mixed session, you classify a session by its primary aim, so the 4x8 interval session, for example, is all classed a…

I just looked at POL base and build and can’t tell them apart, build just looks like a longer base but maybe I’m missing something

[image] Cleanneon98: I just looked at POL base and build and can’t tell them apart I know TR has classified them as base and build - but that seems a mistake to me. There isn’t really a base/build distinction in Polarized training (at least as I understand it). There shouldn’t be a difference…

I’m almost thinking to do Traditional Base and then move into POL “build” might be a better move

Totally depends on where you’re starting from. I’ve been able to do plans similar to these while building out my aerobic base - so you might be able to do the same and see the benefits of a longer ramp period on polarized training. If your base is fairly shaky, then lots of base training is always …

[image] Cleanneon98: I’m almost thinking to do Traditional Base and then move into POL “build” might be a better move I’d call that a long base. Traditional base would focus on aerobic endurance, and then POL to pull aerobic capacity up even higher. Depending on your goals/events, you could t…

Traditional , what TR call Linear periodization, has the long low intensity in common with Polarized during its early base and build phases, where they differ is Traditional has an increasing amount of tempo, as opposed to HIIT for the latter; for endurance riders may never include HIIT, as that was…

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