🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Polarized Training Plans Are Here! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[BCrossen]

I think this is due to two things:

1. They’re trying to keep it as close to Seiler’s literature and what he’s said as possible, so they kept it as close to 80/20 as they could. Seiler also prescribes the 4/8/16 interval structure, as well.
2. The efficacy of a 4 hour/week Polarized plan remains to be seen. I would think that little time on the bike is below the floor of effectiveness for such a plan, and I don’t appear to be alone if you check out the feedback thread Nate made prior to the launch. Below is a link to Nate’s post, which also notes the oddity of a LV Polarized plan.

Feedback Needed: Polarized Plan Questions for the Community

I think there are 2000+ messages on the forum debating what Polarized actually is. There’s no book about what it is, and Seiler has said contradicting things on podcasts and in research. Our goal is to make these new POL plans as close to Seiler’s recent recommendations as possible. There are some things that can’t happen. IE 80/20 workout distribution with 90/10 TIZ is not possible in a 3.5-hour plan. That would only give you two hard workouts over three weeks, and thus you’d have a week w…