Polarized Training vs. Sweet Spot (Dylan Johnson video)

[DaveWh]

@isaac124

I think that pyramidal is the long term sustainable approach

Probably. Does not seem to be as popular a topic as polarized or sweet spot though - 10 posts in this thread vs. 100s in this one

10-14 Hour Weeks: Is Pyramidal Training Distribution the Best Option for Base?

Taking a look at SSBHV1, the average week is 9 hours with 5/6 workouts being sweet spot intervals. on week 2 of the plan that’s about 300 minutes of sweet spot work with less than an hour in Z2 coming from Pettit. Now compared to a late-stage traditional base week, for example, week 2 of TBHV3 @ 13:45 has a little more than half the sweet spot/threshold work at about 170 minutes but 8:45 of Z2. Using the distribution classifications from intervals.icu it could be said that the SSBHV distributi…