That’s understandable and almost certainly the better way see improvements over time, but I’m not committing to cycling full time. I will likely only be doing a couple of months at once and then switching over to running so if I went down that path I would end up having to stop the plan uncompleted, most likely without having done anything above tempo or threshold effort. Which is why I think maybe including a variety of everything rather than specialising might be better for me.
Thanks! I do believe I’ve stumbled upon your thread before when researching sweet spot training. I’ll definitely take it into consideration, but I am confused as to what intervals to include in the week and how long they should be, as well as when to schedule vo2 weeks etc.
You paid for a TR subscription which includes dozens of proven effective training plans, why not pick one of those. If you don’t have any events (like me) just think of a hypothetical event you would like to do and let plan builder do its thing. Start with a low volume plan and see how you feel after a few weeks if you feel fine start using Train Now to add in a bit of extra endurance. Since you are new to structured training you’ll probably still improve a lot even on low volume.
Do this for one full cycle of base, build and specially then reevaluate and see if you want to increase volume to mid volume or not…
And maybe add in a bit of strength training instead of doing hours and hours of just cycling
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Please see my original post and my second last post explaining why I don’t want to do blocks extending over long periods of time. I just want a plan that includes a bit of everything all year round that I can hop on and off as needed as I will likely be balancing it with running