How are people finding the TR Polarized plans?

[mcneese.chad]

@tfilteau

Has there been official talk by TR about what they are seeing on the back end?

• It’s not a deep dive, but the most I have seen comes from Jonathan in the update announcement topic:
• 📣 Polarized Plan Updates! 📣

@tfilteau

is that because people were skipping VO2 or failing workouts?

Polarized Plan Updates!

A significant portion of athletes following these plans noted that they wanted to avoid VO2max work in the Base Phase. From a coaching perspective, this change allows athletes to reside within the Polarized framework and still get the appropriate balance of low and high intensity work in order to build aerobic base.

@tfilteau

it sounds like lots of people do lots of this outdoors which would raise the question of are they actually taking things easy.

From what I read around here, this depends heavily on which workouts you are talking about.

• Endurance rides outside seem to be done harder than planned (and/or more irregular?) more often than easier or dead on.

  • There’s a whole side-discussion about variability related to these rides, but I’m deliberately skipping that and going more on what Jonathan and others report when reviewing peoples rides and plans in the podcast.

• I am not sure I have any reasonable guess related to the hard workouts outside. That may well be a mixed bag.