:sweat_smile: So I’ve watched many try and fail over the years, now it’s my turn. Many will question why, many will tell me to do something else instead, many will plead for Z2 and outside riding…their calls will go unheeded and fall by the wayside. :muscle: FTP history (peaks) 2016 195 (one of…

I’ve been here before and also going to target it before the end of the year. [image] Help me get to a 300w FTP before the year ends Training Well, guys and gals…I think I have made a dispiriting discovery about my body’s reaction to structured training. As I have said b…

Do whatever you were doing back in 2020, but a little bit better!

Yeah, I’m looking at an almost new approach. So likely an MV plan, start 5 rides per week on General Build. Languishing on 248, on an inconsistent LV General Build just bumped up to 251, MV I can get up to 260-270 relatively quickly. From a load perspective, Garmin wise I do about 1000 average tr…

Sounds like a fun goal and you’ve been close before! What plans did you do 2020? Time to ace that nutrition, sleep :balloon:

[image] Bbt67: My max is almost exactly the same and there is a direct correlation in high load and a period when I focused a lot on recovery so I could adapt to the load. What do you do when you focus on recovery? Only sleep more and eat cleaner or do you do anything more?

it’s not the question of suggesting z2 outside rides, it’s because that’s the only sustainable way. If you want to ride 15 hrs a week in high intensity indoor, go for it and burn yourself out within 2 months. 6-8 hr/wk is not enough for high goals, there’s no magical receipt. With that in mind, be…

Might be interesting to experiment with it during indoor season – push it unsustainable way high now and extend TTE sustainable way in coming spring (i.e. reverse periodisation). This is what I am planning myself actually to break through plateau. But also need to consider that frequent high-intens…

For sure is doable, risky, but doable. I’m saying risky as it’s easy to go a bit harder than ideal, or neglect the recovery a bit and boom, you just realise you’re in a hole when it’s too late.

Yeah, that’s for sure – during my 1st year I was on loop with SSBHV, knowing nothing about CTL/ATL etc. Progressed very nicely but during summer lost motivation twice. Looking back fitness graph, I was actually continuously in high-risk overtraining state for 6 months :slight_smile:

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