Since I’ve been mostly following the TR plan I am staying in the green zone. I was on the LV Master’s plan but found it wasn’t enough work. Switched to the MV plan and and try to do 2 shorter higher intensity indoor rides plus another MTB ride with some hills and a longer endurance ride of 2-4 hours on the gravel bike. That puts me a bit over the weekly planned TSS.
But which plan?
ANd as above it’s not just the work load that counts.
Overall you look okay, focus on low or high aerobic is going to be appropriate for where you are in your training cycle and what you are training for.
Sleep, nutrition, stress, sickness etc not just load.
It’s worth watching some of the YouTube videos where the cyclists follow the garmin watch down to a tee. Most get some pretty impressive results ;like Francis Cade did in a recent video and he was mainly riding 1 hour z2 with a few intervals.
Secondly unproductive from garmin connect is just measuring your heart rate in the workouts. What if the temperature is hotter outside or you’ve had some caffeine? Just bear that in mind. I don’t have a garmin watch but the hear unit loves to tell me I’m unproductive. Cycling in the heat always gives that result.
His gains were basically, off the couch, newb gains. Almost any kind of training would do that for you over six weeks.
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When I say that I try my best to be on mute…
We were having a ‘discussion’ the other day and I finally stated… “I’d agree with you and we’d both be wrong; that make you happy?”
Hope you have a comfy couch 
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Having been together now for 44 years we can go back and forth and laugh about it.
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