Anybody seen this video GCN posted yesterday with Tadej Pogačar’s cycling coach? Why Riding Slower Makes You Faster: The Secrets Of Zone 2 Training - YouTube It’s quite interesting and immediately made me think about how this video almost completely contradicts with my TR plans… Thoughts?

I am sure it also depends a lot on how “realistic” the FTP is the percentage is base on. Another reason, why the percentage is pointless.

[image] davidof: Basically you need an hour or so of hard (z5) interval training per week. Adding any other time and it will be low intensity or you’ll burn out. One thing I’ve never understood, and would like to. When you say 1hr of Z5 is that a 1hr workout that has Z5 intervals in it (so ma…

The Time in Zone (TIZ) vs Session Goal (SG) vs Hybrid question I was thinking something along the lines of 1 session with 8x4 intervals == 32 minutes and another session of 4x8m intervals = 64 minutes in total. If you then do 9 hours of Z1 / Z2 / low Z3 riding you are doing 10/90. Nicely polarize…

Totally agree with your thoughts. Im older at 57 with NO natural aerobic gifts. With a weak Vo2 over the years I have trained up the intensity SS in particular to compensate. To keep up on our group rides in the past I have to put out much more of effort closer to and above my meager FTP to keep…

And that approach applies well to running. I’ve been using 8020 Endurance training plans for running for some time now.

The older you get the more important it gets to maintain intensity [image] 54% of VO2max loss in masters athetes can be explained by loss in volume Training Seems that for us older folks it’s even more important to keep the intensity high, use it or lose it

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[image] ArHu74: The older you get the more important it gets to maintain intensity From the little I know about this seems to be very important. Long endurance workouts and then small amounts of very intense sessions to keep the vo2max up. In light of all of this I’ll be reworking my cyclin…

Any chance TR is working on polarized triathlon plans? I would be a willing guinea pig to test them. I have several triathlons scheduled for next summer.

I haven’t listened yet, but this should be interesting: [image] ‎Empirical Cycling Podcast: Watts Doc #40: Endurance Adaptation Is Not... ‎Show Empirical Cycling Podcast, Ep Watts Doc #40: Endurance Adaptation Is Not Substrate Oxidation - Oct 25, 2022

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