I’m 67 and using TR for the third year and more dedicated than ever to see how much improvement I can make. I haven’t raced as such, other than doing the Senior Olympics. I compete against myself and can keep up with lots of guys 20-30 years younger, except on hills >5%, where the aging heart hits i…

I’ve been using TR long enough to know when I need extra recovery time so these options wouldn’t help me as much as other users. I’d prefer to have the ability to extend recovery valleys between intervals. Most of the time, I need that extra time (especially later in the workout), but not all the …

I’d rather be able to add a week mid block as a recovery week. The first time I did SSBMV1 I dropped a copy of the recovery week between the third and forth week and didn’t feel trashed. I repeated the same block once used plan builder and didn’t need the extra recovery week. Now in SSBMV2 the se…

For my 62 year old legs, increasing time between intense workouts seems to help the most. Right now I manually achieve this by adding days off (or recovery-level rides) into the calendar, but it’s kind of a pain as I’ve not figured out a way to “insert” an extra day off and have all the subsequen…

I’d prefer more time between intense workouts. I recently tried to do a mid volume block and learned the the recovery deficit I had was not noticeable day to day or even week to week until the beginning of week three. Then it caught up to me big time. By then the deficit was deep and it took a long …

@dfreitas and @classof42 good points on vo2max intervals. The other option is to stop doing intervals after say 2 sets, which I think can be a good strategy to building up time-in-vo2max. For the micro-burst style vo2 work (a weakness of mine) I’ve also reduced intensity in the 3rd set, and then us…

i like your approach! The progressively declining effort demand tends to take one out to the end of what’s really possible rather than assuming up front and using the cookie cutter approach to all the intervals as I have been doing.

I have also struggled with VO2 max workouts. I eventually found Baird -1, I could complete it more times than I failed it so simply substituted in whenever required.

[image] classof42: i like your approach! The progressively declining effort demand tends to take one out to the end of what’s really possible rather than assuming up front and using the cookie cutter approach to all the intervals as I have been doing. Just thinking out loud, to be honest my a…

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daryllewis February 6, 2020, 5:23pm 86

Is there any data for which one works the best?

What does coach Chad’s research show to be the best? Or are they just two different paths to the same place?

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