[image] Stephen Seiler @StephenSeiler In early 2019, a 300watt hour of power was my goal. Now in early 2021, I am at 300w for 2hours. Extending....slowly 😊 6:27 PM - 7 Feb 2021 380 Sorry I don’t know how to copy …

Another general take-away is that no one does, or should, train “Polarized” year round. Some high level coaches utilise POL blocks for base, others for race readiness; it’s one training theory w/ multiple applications. Addendum: also not that POL distribution is the result of high volume HIIT tra…

I don’t hear this being talked about much, if at all. I like the idea of using it for a ‘peak’ phase

I’ve done only one true block of POL and it made me waaay faster than any SS/Threshold block (raised & extended my entire all-time power curve). Other forum participants have had similar experiences.

What %ftp did you use for easy rides?

Did you use it in the base phase? How did you determine LT1? I’ve heard people estimating it from 70-80%, which seems a wide band. Forgive my ignorance, but when I hear ‘hard days hard, easy days easy’, I don’t think of 80% or even really 70% as easy. Did I miss something? I’m digging through some …

[image] Polarized Training Discussion (Fast Talk podcast & Flo Cycling podcast) Training @mcneese.chad Out of curiosity I just listened to Fast Talk ep 54 and it was entirely about guidance on setting the 3 zones. With the benefit of never having listened to anything else …

It does seem that some of his work fits into the definition of “sweetspot”, and are not in the polarized model. I am quite keen of the simplicity of the polarized model and it gave me good results at the start of the 2019 season. Pre-season I was doing plenty of easy riding (just getting on with it…

[image] 4ibanez: I don’t think of 80% or even really 70% as easy. Seiler usually talks about 60-70% of hrmax.

Funny, this also seems even more anti-polarized than what Keegan said he did on the podcast last week which received some grief about TR promoting their own time saving plans. Seems like its all in semantics.

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