Is TrainerRoad giving me too much intensity for a mid-volume plan? I don’t feel overly fatigued or anything but perhaps over time I may accumulate too much? I have a criterium and rolling road race at the end of June (back to back Fri & Sat) and then another criterium at the end of July. I once hea…

[image] IvyAudrain: For discussion, let us know at the end of the week if it ended up feeling like ‘too much’. :wink: So…my plan got adjusted due to a change I made to an upcoming event in June but basically same level of intensity this week. I nailed my Monday Clouds Rest +6 workout, did too…

[image] awoffinden: Interesting, I wonder if intensity gets more important as you get older as that’s the thing that goes first. Painful paradox is that’s thing that seems to cause burnout fastest as you get older! I guess you can’t compare someone who has 30 years of endurance training with som…

So…my plan got adjusted due to a change I made to an upcoming event in June but basically same level of intensity this week. I nailed my Monday Clouds Rest +6 workout, did too much TSS yesterday (81 instead of 29 from Lazy Mountain +1) but kept it mostly Z2 HR, then felt like I almost maxed out on …

What’s it like climbing hills at 5W/kg? :wink:

[image] Exision88: Unless you are a 5wk/kg+ rider or a very experienced coach, or a PhD in the topic with multiple successful athletes under your belt you really should keep your opinion about what is ‘better’ a bit more lightly. OP asked for opinions. Dissenting opinions are allowed. One rea…

[image] Exision88: They do hard work, 2/3x per week, and add endurance on top This is sort of the point though? Most TR plans do more hard work than this.

Not much more. TR Plans for criteriums & rolling road races: LV: 3 intense MV: 3 intense, 1 moderate HV: 3 intense, 1 moderate

When parsing out work, most coaches I know of would consider TR’s “moderate” days hard. TR files 3x30 sweet spot as “moderate” according to their plans. So you do three intense interval sessions and a long sweet spot session on the weekend, that is way more interval work than any coach I know would …

[image] kurt.braeckel: There are studies out there that show that three interval sessions per week don’t elicit any more gains than two, but they do incur more fatigue. This is one thing that has always irked me about TR plans - they say science based but I haven’t seen any science or study t…

Is TR Giving Me Too Much Intensity?

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Janhein April 30, 2022, 11:37pm 68

Could not agree more. The science argument seems to be used selectively. Jonathan recently posted this and asked him for references (including the research underpinning the TR plans), no response so far.

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