Is polarized low volume, too low? off season/pre season with dialed health Oct-Dec

Training
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I am planning my October - December training calendar.
I signed up for dialed health and will do 2 workouts per week at home (with minimal equipment).
I am trying to decide what low volume plan to do to try and maintain as much fitness as possible, without over doing it.
I will admit, at this point in the season I am feeling like I need a bit of a break. The last 2 weeks of Sept will be this, nothing too structured.
However, I am not sure what low volume TR plan I should do while I am doing the dialed health workouts.
I was looking at the specialty, enthusiast, maintenance plan?
I was also thinking about SSB LV.
Then I also thought maybe polarized low volume could be good.

Problem with the polarized plans are I really can’t see myself ever doing 2 hours on the trainer (I ride in the morning and I don’t want to get up this early).
I have also heard the polarized plans are really not meant for low volume riders.

Any feedback to help me choose which plan would be welcomed.

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Yeah, getting in BOTH threshold and VO2Max workouts in a week, while following 80/20 is hard with low volume. The MV POL plan is nicely balanced, but the LV plan less so.

I’d suggest perhaps taking a look at Traditional Base LV leading in to SSB LV. The longer rides in TB are on the weekends if getting up early is an issue. Or just TB LV I & II, then SSB.

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Can you up the frequency of the low volume plans?

Last winter (Oct-Feb) I mostly an hour a day of zone 2 (6-7 days per week). I rode outside maybe one a week if weather cooperated. I also did some light work with dumbbells - squats, walking lunges, etc.

I maintained my aerobic fitness pretty well. My FTP drifted down a bit but in the spring it came back up quickly with a little sweet spot/threshold and then two short VO2max blocks. I hit new all time highs in July.

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I am a fan of TB MV plans but just started Polazired LV to test it out as I wanted to see what AT was like with it since TB is not included. For me the 3 days of cycling on the plan is totally fine as I know I usually ride 5 (7-8 hours weekly) and the extra 2 days I am doing endurance style rides to fill in the gaps.