# Training Plan Progression (Traditional Base or SSB?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Training\ **Created:** [November 7, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/training-plan-progression-traditional-base-or-ssb/5322 "2018-11-07T16:18:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 19
**Author:** ![bbarrera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/bbarrera/32/14734_2.png) [@bbarrera](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/bbarrera)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/training-plan-progression-traditional-base-or-ssb/5322/19 "2019-04-22T15:04:33Z")
Discussion started here: > [@Short intense period before starting base? Chad's short FTP boost plan](https://www.trainerroad.com/forumt/short-intense-period-before-starting-base-chads-short-ftp-boost-plan/6875/5): > > There isn’t a plan for this, but it’s a pretty easy thing to slap together if you comb the workout catalog’s VO2max offerings. Personally, I like starting short (30-second repeats) and growing the durations over a block as short as a single week to as long as 3 weeks depending on when my progress and/or motivation starts to stall. It never fails to surprise me how much more manageable 3-minute VO2max repeats are if I start short and work my way up to these longer jobbers, even if I do it over t… and example booster plan: > [@Catch 22 on VO2 work](https://www.trainerroad.com/forumt/catch-22-on-vo2-work/8133/74): > > Yep I’ve been referencing that very post, thanks also to @zwillis1 and of course Coach @chad! Been toying with a progression like this for the next 2.5 weeks - started with Pierce only because I’d already done that yesterday when I started in on Short Power Build. Figure I’ll try this, take a standard recovery week after, then retest and go into General Build. Looking at the progression I do worry I’m making too big a leap, too fast near the end from 2-min. @ 120% right to 3-min. @ 120%. So I… --- _[View the full topic](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/training-plan-progression-traditional-base-or-ssb/5322)._