# Quality over Quantity vs. 80/20 (or Chad vs. Matt ;)) **URL:** \ **Category:** Training\ **Tags:** polarized\ **Created:** [October 16, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/quality-over-quantity-vs-80-20-or-chad-vs-matt/3962 "2018-10-16T19:11:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 69
**Author:** ![DaveWh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/davewh/32/13120_2.png) [@DaveWh](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/DaveWh)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/quality-over-quantity-vs-80-20-or-chad-vs-matt/3962/69 "2018-10-28T16:08:41Z")
> [@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)](https://www.trainerroad.com/forumt/polarized-training-discussion-fast-talk-podcast-flo-cycling-podcast/1766/154): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/quality-over-quantity-vs-80-20-or-chad-vs-matt/3962)._