Suggestion for those who find progressions too intense

[WindWarrior]

for those interested:

Avoiding Burn Out

Whoops! I think the abundance of added un-subscribed volume here can lead us to conclude that this is less of a ‘burnout’ from your training plan, and more a self-induced fatigue (mental and likely physical) from tacking on a bunch of extra endurance. I don’t think doing less than the three key workouts assigned in a Low Volume plan is the key to helping you get faster. Those are super key systems that are very intentionally assigned, so missing one crucial workout a week wont set you up super …

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Avoiding Burn Out

I think the title of this thread is unfair. You’re not following the structure of our training plans. How you’ve changed the plan is the opposite of what we say to do through our education channels (podcast, youtube, blog, forum). What I see is a recipe for burnout. I’d like to describe what I’m seeing to educate athletes on the forum and suggest how you can tweak your plan when you add additional volume. Can I post some sample weeks to give everyone context?

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Avoiding Burn Out

Here’s an example block. [image] I’d like to see more space between the intense days. 4/5/6 goes Race, Progressive Sweet Spot, Stretch VO2 [image] I think having the 5th (tallac) be an easier endurance ride, a recovery ride, or a rest day would have been a better choice. And after that hard block you have a 3:21 hour ride with lots of threshold and sweet spot. [image] If you are going to do a long ride on that day, with that hard block before, I would keep the watts at or below 65% of…