It’s summer here in the UK (well it should be), what does everyone else do with thier plans? It is too nice to be inside: do people just do the session that is close to a plan as they feel like it actually follow a plan and skip the sun stop training and just hammer it outside?

I ride for health and fitness too, I don’t race. I am very competitive with myself though. I have learned that without an A event to prep for I can skip the Specialty phase. So, I run a cycle of SSB I → SSB II → Sustained Power Build → SSB I → etc. So far I’ve found that this gives me good FTP impro…

I train for CX, so between the end of January and early May I’ve been doing mid volume with little outdoor riding other than occasional commuting or short rides when the weather’s good. From May until the start of CX season I try to follow the mid volume but switch out the weekend training with an …

In the summer, I ride outside whenever I can. What is more enjoyable than riding a bike outside? All this nonsense about not getting the perfomance gains by slavishly conforming to the absolute watt doesn’t do it for me.

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[image] AndyGajda: All this nonsense about not getting the perfomance gains by slavishly conforming to the absolute watt doesn’t do it for me. You don’t agree that structured indoor riding brings larger and more-efficient performance gains than outdoor riding? Or are you saying that you just …

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What I’m saying is you can do just as structured training outside as you can inside. You don’t need a smart trainer and ERG mode to get the right session done.

For me personally this isn’t true, at least not easily. My topography doesn’t provide for long steady-state efforts so they’re less effective and the workouts take a lot longer. Once I committed to indoor riding the gains started to come more readily and with a significantly reduced training time. R…

Can you say how the gains were demonstrated?

FTP gains is the primary measure for sure. Qualitatively, I ride with the same group of guys on the weekend and I used to struggle to hold onto the group and now I easily keep and push the pace. Is that what you meant?

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Ok, but should you change your mind in the future, you might find this thread helpful.

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