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A few people here have touched on this, but many more are completely missing the point. If you are a newbie starting TR from scratch, there is nothing in the plan descriptions that push you towards the LV plans. Please put yourselves in the shoes of a new TR user: You haven’t read any blog posts Y…

They both actually agree. If you listen to Chad on the Podcast he pretty much pleads with everyone that almost everyone does best on 2 hard days per week, not 3. The problem is . . . TR doesn’t do that in their plans. They put in 3 hard days no matter what plan you are in. The first question in …

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Are you talking about me :hot_face: :hot_face: :hot_face:

[image] univox: Even using plan builder can potentially push a newbie into a HV plan. If you’ve been putzing around in Z1/Z2 rides for 10+ hours a week, not an inconceivable task having done it myself, the plan builder might suggest a HV plan. Yea, that is a problem. I entered Beginner (to st…

I agree with this 100%, that the plan builder makes it hard to follow the advice given on the podcasts

I will put this out there. Polarized is not a training plan or training method. Polarized is a logical outcome for individuals that have bike raiding as there day job. Don´t think it needed to take the deep study of a sports scientist to figure that out. I do think that for some people (me include…

I think that Pol/Pyr is going to be the logical outcome for anyone with the time or inclination to spend more than c.14 hours a week on the bike (rough/guesstimate time, don’t @ me). But either can also work for people with less time. As can SS, HIIT, etc. N=1, ymmv etc. I think there are some fla…

[image] ajsds66: Polarized is not a training plan or training method. Polarized is a logical outcome for individuals that have bike raiding as there day job. Don´t think it needed to take the deep study of a sports scientist to figure that out. I guess you don’t know sports scientists. They …

[image] univox: They can make new plans with distinctions in both volume an intensity. They can officially add a version of their LV plans with extra Z1/Z2 to match the volume in MV and HV. What would be the point of these plans? I don’t think this is a good idea, because consistency will be …

Plenty of people have the free time available to do more than 3.5 hours a week, but definitely not he capacity to handle an existing HV plan with up to 4 hours of threshold, 2 hours of sweet spot and 1.5 hours of Vo2max in a single week. Surely there must be some benefit to providing a gentle “HV” …

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