Help with getting back into the game, productively

[d_diston]

@lightyear

What zone is considered the dead zone or gray zone? Is that Z3?

That question is entering dangerous territory in this forum! See thread below.

I’m not too familiar with tri training, but as I’m a TT’er I guess there’s a lot of crossover. Quick start would be Sweetspot Base, General Build, 40k TT plans. Given your situation outlined above, low or medium volume would probably be best.

There are dedicated Tri plans, but I couldn’t comment on how good they are.

Quality over Quantity vs. 80/20 (or Chad vs. Matt ;))

I’m under the impression that Jonathan, Nate and Chad are fans of Matt Fitzgerald so I’m especially curious about this. In his 80/20 triathlon book Matt takes the stance that an 80/20 easy to moderate/hard distribution gives you the biggest training effect even when only training 45 minutes per day on average. This is more or less the volume of a Olympic triathlon base low volume on Trainerroad and the distribution of load is clearly more heavy on the non-easy side than that - the argument being…