I’m looking to start a SSB plan and need some help picking the right strategy on volume. Just a brief background to provide context to my question: I started structured training 2 years ago and have been pretty consistent with two 1-1.25 hr trainer rides per week (Tues/Thurs), usually in the 55-80 …

[image] Should I go Base: Low Volume or Mid Volume? Training I have recently switch from Low to an ‘adapted’ mid volume plan. I know that most weeks I can probably get 4 rides in but certainly not 5. So I added the Mid volume plan to my calendar and then I deleted one of…

The key weekend workout of MV is the Saturday, same as LV. I don’t get out on a Sunday, and generally take that as my rest day. I do the three key workouts, all things being equal, on Monday - Wednesday - Friday. And then the “moderate” workout on a Saturday is either swapped for an outdoor ride (n…

[image] Macy: The key weekend workout of MV is the Saturday, same as LV. [image] Macy: And then the “moderate” workout on a Saturday is either swapped for an outdoor ride (not an “outdoor workout”) or Zwift or sometimes I just do the workout. So are you often not doing the “key” workou…

I probably didn’t explain it well. I do a Monday to Saturday schedule, so my key workouts are Monday - Wednesday - Friday. My Saturday workout is the “Sunday” Moderate workout, which may get swapped. My week, in normal times, is Monday - Hard, Tuesday - Easy, Wednesday - Hard, Thursday - off, Frid…

[image] onemanpeloton: I also “extend cooldown” for 15 or 20 minutes after every workout. I’m on the trainer anyway so why not? Also, I think there’s some training benefit to adding some zone 2 immediately after an intense ride. Yeah I’ve often thought there might be some benefit to doing exa…

For your “easy” Tuesday workouts, what are those like, TSS or Zone wise? What’s your overall average weekly TSS?

Here is what I did: when I created the next season’s training plan, I wanted something in between mid- and high-volume. I started by comparing mid- and high-volume plans. With high-volume plans, you work out 6 times a week, with mid-volume it is 5. I have decided to keep it at 5, so I based my train…

[image] tanzbodeli: Is there an easy way to do that in TR, other than just taking it out of ERG mode and adding however much time you want with the “+[minutes]” buttons? (which admittedly isn’t hard) This is typically exactly what I have done in the past which is a very easy way of doing it. …

Pettit is what the plan says 39 TSS. Remote working, I usually go for whorl, which is the same intensity (and much of the same drills, but 75 minutes). Averaging around 600, but it’s normally the outdoor spin that bumps that up, when we’re allowed out on a group spin. I wasn’t doing that much when…

You can leave it in erg. Just click “extend cooldown” and choose your additional duration. The one downside to this approach is that now, at a glance, the workout data is hard to compare with my my previous efforts of the same workout because the added Z2 changes the IF and NP etc. It’s not the end…

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Something in between SS Base low volume and mid volume?

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