I really need to use intervals more, there’s a lot of great info available here. Knew my distribution was not 80/20 but it actually wasn’t as bad as I thought, although TB I - III helped even things out a bit the last couple months.
When it comes to TID, there is no bad or good, there just is.
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My first year of cycling is done so these are my values. I have pushed my FTP by 112W since the start and have 60 min tte so it served its purpoise.:
Now almost every week is pyramidal as ctl is 85 and this distribution is not possible to mantain not to mention I see a lot of benefits from Z2 rides.
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I guess “threshold” in intervals.icu is the closest definition to Sweet Spot. Makes sense, since I do a decent amount of tempo/sweet spot.
Sweetspot isn’t a TID.
The only defined TIDs are polarized, threshold, and pyramidal.
Training that includes more than a modicum of sweetspot can’t be polarized, but it could be either threshold or pyramidal.
IOW, intervals.icu is forging their own path here (and clearly just confusing people in the process).
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Wrong.
Seiler finds that elite athletes are training…pure time…90% in zone 1, very little in zone 2, and 10% in zone 3
POL can include every intensity.
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Do you know the meaning of the word “modicum”? (It doesn’t appear that you do.)
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Intervals doesn’t just use the most recent FTP value. It definitely allows you to add new FTP’s without overwriting historic values.
My reading of the text below their heart rate zones graph, “Power and heart rate zones are taken from the most recent activity in the date range,” is that for the time in zones view you only get data based on one (most recent) set of zones. I’d be interested to know if I’m interpreting that incorrectly.
Hmm, you’re right. That’s interesting. I wonder if that just means the zone labels or if it reapplies the activity HR’s to your current zones
Finished my 14-day “trad base” aerobic training camp today. Long hours on the trainer, no off days (and only one bad day), but most importantly – no residual fatigue.
My calculated “fatigue” (ATL) is through the roof, but my body (and brain) tell a different story.
If I had the same analytic numbers doing SSB, I would definitely feel it.
Was good to get some big hours w/o feeling completely smashed. It’s twice the amount of time as SSB but there’s no fatigue/recovery management and I can transition back to normal life immediately after a ride (vs only eating and sleeping).
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That’s how I felt right after my 5 day volume block. Took two days to recover… then my legs let me know I had done a shit ton of volume. There’s definitely some inertia to doing that type of work.
Finishing up SSB HV2 (2 weeks remaining) and I find that I feel a lot better/fresher than doing the MV plans. I did TR traditional base MV 1, 2 and 3, two years ago. You couldn’t pay me to do that again, even though I did have good results. I much prefer the time commitment and mental relief of doing SSB over traditional.
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Lucky you to have the luxury of time…
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Meh. Wouldn’t call a mass-murdering pandemic a luxury. But whateves.
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, not afraid of histrionics. Notwithstanding lockdowns, many still don’t have such time. And the virtues of long and slow aren’t new news. “But whateves”
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Guess that’s why Sweet Spot was invented.
Good luck. 
Nice one!
Interested to know how you structured the block - any progression or just max volume non-stop?
You mean “fitness”.
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