Quality over Quantity vs. 80/20 (or Chad vs. Matt ;))

[DaveWh]

@trianta

POL training obviously works for many athletes who have the time to invest. I have yet to see any study that says the same for people having less than 10+ hours at hand.

POL can work for athletes on less than 10 hrs a week.

Polarized Training Discussion (Fast Talk podcast & Flo Cycling podcast)

I’ve started to do some searching for results of Polarized training vs. Threshold training for athletes who train in the 6-8 hours per week range. There are a number of studies I’ve found that generally show similar results in concept. The study below is probably the most directly relevant to this group - as it included “well trained” cyclists who had been training for at least 4 years, trained on average 7-8 hours per week, with 40k TT power averaging ~280W. So reasonably strong cyclists, bu…