Bit of an ambiguous question but who has done the 8 mins @ 108% - 2 mins reco - repeat *4? How would you rate it in terms of RPE? I’m wondering if I should start with the 4 min intervals and work up over a few weeks or just jump in the deep end. Cheers in advance.

I’ve been strictly polarized for two months now and my ‘green bucket’ power is noticeably improving. Rode 3hrs this morning on flat roads with a normalised power of 198w, keeping my HR well under LT1. Two months ago I was in the region of 140-160w with higher perceived effort. It’s brilliant! Plu…

Watching your speed increase over time, as you ride in your green zone is great to see.

Slightly O/T, but has anyone used an HRV app to identify AeT? I saw an ios app HRV data logger that claimed to be able to identify real time AeT using a simple low intensity ramp test. It doesnt promise to be perfect but the data they use to support it looks pretty good. Best of all its all free an…

You guys are stressing the 10% of the workouts that are hard…describing them as “HARD!” Or “Smashing!” but surely the 90% zone 2 (5 zone model) are equally important…aren’t they? And…Let’s equate “SMASHING HARD RAH RAH BRAHHH!!!” with race day tt or mtb race performance, not workouts. Hitting the …

Don’t really understand what you’re on about Joe. I don’t think anyone’s ‘stressing’ about the hard stuff. There’s a bajillion posts about how to pace the easier rides on this forum and one thread dedicated to how to do the ‘red bucket’ sessions. Personally I spent months properly understanding how…

I have started using it and for me at least its been a bit of a revelation. It gives me consistent results bout where LT1 is albeit with some daily variation. It’s important you use a Polar HR monitor as other monitors don’t appear to measure beat to beat variations as accurately. It put my LT1 abou…

Its been said many times here, and elsewhere, that the hard sessions should also NOT be ‘hero’ efforts. Seiler himself has said many times that these workouts shouldn’t be done to exhaustion and you should always leave more in the tank. The challenge is that everything on TR is based on % of FTP so…

[image] Bigpikle: Its been said many times here, and elsewhere, that the hard sessions should also NOT be ‘hero’ efforts. Seiler himself has said many times that these workouts shouldn’t be done to exhaustion and you should always leave more in the tank. So how does one solve the puzzle, on t…

Thats a great question - well above my pay grade! I guess the difference MIGHT be ‘all out’ means 100% completion of the workout and no failures, versus lots of examples here where people report trying to hit a % and failing at some point during a later set??? But I’m guessing a little.

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There’s some detailed discussion in the Iñigo San Millán training model thread (around post 539).

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