Feb 25th Podcast

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To all the “we need a forum answer to Dylan” or “invite Dylan to podcast” posters:

The forum answer has been here since October 2018:

Polarized Training Discussion (Fast Talk podcast & Flo Cycling podcast)

Woah, this is a long thread! I skimmed it but here are my thoughts. You can get fit in many different ways. I think one podcast seemed to say you can’t get fast on sweet spot. That’s crazy sauce. I went from 275 to 345 on almost only sweet spot. We’ve got a TON of data that shows that you can get faster with the periodized/Coggan approach…like a lot a lot. Seiler is not prescribing a training system, he’s describing what he’s seen in pro athletes (as far as I can tell). In a 90/10 ti…

I wonder why nobody linked it in the Dylan thread.

And besides the boring Dylan discussion (I wish I had not wasted so much time reading that thread) the more interesting part and link to this thread here could be that what @Nate_Pearson listed as point number 4 there:

@Nate_Pearson

4. Take this with a grain of salt because the analysis is not done : Our data shows that the main difference between 2-3 watt/kg riders and 4-5 watt/kg riders are that the 4-5 watt/kg riders do more 2-hour rides, and those rides are mostly between .80-.85 IF (aka sweet spot work). They don’t do longer rides on average compared to 2-3 watt/kg riders.

@Nate_Pearson

I hope to defend point 4 in the future.

@Nate_Pearson Maybe future is now