Everyone knows not drinking, and eating mostly plant based is the best possible diet right?
… right?
It kind of explains why people search for confirmation bias so hard. Oh, maybe I won’t get enough protein, guess I gotta eat meat! Beer keeps me sane and I am pretty sure the amount I drink doesn’t affect me much (says the guy that will never have a w/kg breakthrough).
Anyway It’s always interesting to hear what a Dr. thinks.
Depends
When nutrition is a focus of his research, he’s a senior lecturer in sports nutrition, and he’s the nutritionist for a worldtour cycling team, I’d say he knows quite a bit!
You’re on to something.
I’ll patent the Beer & Pizza ™ endurance diet, you figure out the details and we’ll be 
Hi Sarah,
I don’t know if this feedback is useful, but I’m tired, middle aged, training lots, mostly working from home. I need someone to tell me what to order from the supermarket every week, then I will happily shovel it in.
Literally, an order list with no bizarre stuff on it so when I get off the bike at 8:30 I can shovel something in before work at 9:00.
Same for lunch, I don’t have time to think and if I missed the am workout I’ll do it then. The family usually dictates dinner, but assume there’s a workout then too.
Thanks.
And don’t give me no air-fryer-Nate-specialities neither 
Noticing that lack of sleep has a far greater effect on my health/life than alcohol per se was a life changing event for me:
Drink less and drink earlier. And drink water afterwards.
You’d probably be better off if you actually made time to find, prepare, and eat healthy food regularly even at the expense of exercising less.
Probably.
But…
I get what your’re saying… and don’t know if you are being serious or sarcastic… but everyone places different value on performance. For some that sanity beer is just fine because they will never be pro. Others go all in for an arbitrary performance, though they too will never be pro. Both are OK. And oddly both sides seems to criticize the other for some reason. (Been on both sides as in my youth I was the later as I wanted to push my limits and see how good I could be, now I am the former, though enjoy a super burrito & Mexican coke rather than a beer).
I think life is about balance. You need to enjoy it, and if that is a beer now and then or finding enjoyment in a plant based diet good for you!
Polarized plans aren’t available in plan builder, as far as I know.
I love the idea of plan builder, but I want some more customization of the output. The post by @Pbase sums it up well.
They aren’t visible on the app for some reason but you can choose one and add it to your calendar from the web site. Log In to TrainerRoad
That is my current plan
And miss all the other functionality of plan builder.
At age 54, alcohol really screws with my sleep and recovery. It’s a shame but so true!
At 53 this whole subject is of great interest and I got some valuable insights. Thanks! Great episode and content, keep them coming!
They are.
First you have to have early access polarized plans enabled in your account settings. Once they’re enabled they stay enabled and appear as an option.
Use Plan Builder as you normally would, pick the date range, volume, what you are training for, etc.
When it gets to schedule and you get the opportunity to “Set Default Training Days”, toggle on the “Customize training days for each block”.
From the Base Phase 1 drop down select “(Experimental) 6 Week Polarized Base” and do the same for the Base Phase 2 drop down. For the Build Phase, select “(Experimental) 8 Week Polarized Build”. Specialty is Specialty, leave as is.
This may seem a bit muddy, but after you do it once it’s simple.
Then after creating the plan, when you open your calendar the AT will assess the plan workouts against your current workout levels and offers to adapt the “polarized plan” accordingly.
This is all done from the web interface.
It’s possible to apply the POL plans from within the Plan Builder. Bit of a hidden option, but Sarah has it described here.
As @Mikewpg1ca helpfully points out and explains, they are!! 
I’ll share this post here as well: Adaptive Training and the Polarized Plans - #41 by SarahLaverty.
I encourage you to use Plan Builder while making use of the Polarised plans.
We have two types of Polarised plans - one for the Base phase and one for Build phase. You can swap these in for the normal Base & Build phases during the Plan Builder process.
When you get to the Schedule section of Plan Builder, you will see the option to “Customize training days for each block”. See the screenshot below. Toggle this on (green).
Then you will see the following option:
Use the drop down menu to switch out the Base and Build for the Polarised Plans.
This way you can use Plan Builder to get the perfect schedule heading into your events and still use Polarised plans.
Oh Chad beat me to it! 
Thanks @mcneese.chad!
We hit that nearly simultaneously. Well done!
