Today, we’re launching Masters training plans, lowering the intensity of our existing plans, and adding the ability to change the workout duration of any workout in a plan! Masters Plans Masters Plans have been a long-requested feature, and I’m very excited for it to launch! The plans feature jus…

I think there’s an easy solution. in plan builder, you just ask, “do you want your Sunday ride to be “high volume, low intensity” or do you prefer a shorter workout at a higher intensity?” I’ll add a +1 for longer rides and lower intensity if we can only have one though.

Are these changes being applied to training plans already in progress? Or are they being rolled out for new training plans moving forward? The changes do make sense, but I’m not sure I currently need the additional recovery for my low volume plan.

Giving the masters plan a try, mainly because I’m getting additional intensity from running and xc skiing and this seems like a decent workaround for that since I don’t think adaptive training really takes that into account However I just realized it has me doing Carpathian Peak +3 (3x20 over under…

Workouts will adapt as you complete them. You’re fine.

the concern is the the point or reason we do “endurance” riding. endurance intensity should be low, because the adaptations we want are based on duration and not intensity. if we ride endurance with increased intensity (>.7 IF), we build much more fatigue over time without extra adaptations. we can …

[image] cagiva_wmx125: if we ride endurance with increased intensity (>.7 IF), we build much more fatigue over time without extra adaptations. I’m not sure this is true. [image] Alan Couzens - 1/hr rides are not enough to improve unless coming off the couch When it comes to endurance trai…

Hi Nate. on the endurance adaptations, you are correct. 1 hour of high intensity will yield the same endurance benefits as 1 hour of lower endurance. however we can’t continually increase the dose of intensity and therefore adaptation while we can do that with duration. once we get a few hours of tr…

Please don’t turn this into another zone 2 thread.

You’re right. Obviously if the body doesn’t adapt (change) somehow, performance (“endurance”) won’t either.

[image] cagiva_wmx125: the point or reason we do “endurance” riding. endurance intensity should be low, because the adaptations we want are based on duration and not intensity. What physiological adaptations do you believe are only induced by duration and not intensity? Mitochondrial respira…

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I’m not sure this is true.

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