I’m coming back from a really really long period of not training consistently. I’ve been doing Z2-work and one VO2Max / week. I’ll stick to this while losing weight but will shift to two VO2Max per week in a couple of months or when I feel ready for it.
My maximum observed maxHR is 198bpm but I’d say it’s probably north of 200bpm because I hit 196bpm on my VO2Max session yesterday and I still had gas left in the tank.
This is my progression so far:
Will this affect those workouts only? I’ve just completed my first block since returning to TR and have received an FTP bump that puts my endurance rides at a level that will push my HR up similar to OP. I’ve been careful about keeping zone 2 as zone 2 for a few months now and the first block pretty well matched what I’d been doing (first FTP detection was only 4W above what I’d been working off). It’s been working well as I’ve been recovering, absorbing training, doing longer rides, etc.
Looking at the workouts in the next block the sweetspot/threshold look manageable, but I’m not keen on the endurance targets. If I do the first one and note it as moderate (or even hard) and it reduces future ones, will it change harder workouts too?
For me, endurance/zone 2 is better when HR based. Over time power will increase, but too much too soon is going to send me backwards. I want the harder workouts for higher zones.
Nope. It’ll just affect your endurance rides.
Other options are to edit the training approach for your plan and move the Endurance slider down to Moderate or Conservative and/or use workout alternates to choose a workout that better suits what you want.
Don’t be afraid to make changes to suit your own unique physiology.
In theory it could, but for me, it did not meaningfully change the difficulty of my hard workouts by rating an endurance ride moderate.
checking back in here. The variability is pretty real for the HR. Same ride (Cumberland -3) on Friday and Monday; Friday avg HR was 156 (median ~163), Monday avg HR was 149 (median ~154). I guess that means the range is good?
I do think there is a point for clarification and discussion though when you want to reduce the intensity of the endurance rides if you feel like they’re above the range.
In my case, I’m just going to mark the rides as they feel and try and not over think it.
Perfect - thank you! I remember that coming up when I set the plan but left it as default and forgot all about it. This is exactly what I need 
Hi,
Is this some too you have this in or just your own records? all workouts at fixed 75% FTP?
