Polarized Training Plan

You can probably make most of the build/specialty plans fit a somewhat polarized plan. At least one that is more useful to an average Joe/Jane. You’ll be doing a higher percentage of your work as intensity as in the original review articles, but your total volume is still only going to be in the 6-10 hour range.

Just swap out the weekend rides for zone 2 rides and there you go, you’ve got VO2/AC intevals and zone 2 endurance that is specific towards your event. Whether or not this will be successful depends on your event, but you can still be doing 2x20 thresholds + a vo2 day, the rest z2 and that would be no medium work.

Base would be tricky… that would probably need some more customization to make it work. Like just taking the VO2 progression from SSB2 along with much of the endurance rides from traditional base.

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