I’m a bit confused by the combination of 6 Week Polarized Base low volume plan and adaptive training.
AT drops the current progression levels by a bit (or a lot) if you haven’t trained in a zone for 2 weeks.
But the non-endurance day of the low volume plan (which only happens 1 day a week) is Threshold 2 weeks in a row, then VO2 Max 2 weeks in a row, then Threshold (at least for me)
What’s been happening is that Adaptive Training keeps lowering my progression level, therefore the difficulty of the workouts, because I haven’t trained that energy system for 2 weeks. Meaning that after the first 2 weeks of Polarized block, my VO2 Max progression level dropped, then 2 weeks later the Threshold level dropped, etc…
This means that the next non-endurance workout I do feels way too easy, which seems to defeat the purpose of Polarized training where the “hard days” are supposed to be really hard. And the increase on the second week after the easy-ish workout still doesn’t make it hard.
Am I missing something, or is the polarized low volume simply not really meant to be used with AT ?