My experience with TR POL plans

The recovery week is quite personal. It is not uncommon to actually feel bad during recovery week. You can search about this on this forum.

I myself enjoy the first three days of really low intensity rides but after that my legs get twitchy. For Friday I will increase the intensity a bit and do couple sprints. On Saturdays I’ll let the AI FTP do its magic and then try some productive level threshold ride with newly decreased PL. After a week like this, it’s easy for me to start a new loading cycle and motivation is high again.

Something like this, except Saturday threshold that varies:

Of course, for you it might be different and may require some experimenting. If in doubt, err on lower intensity side – you do not want to start loading cycle in hole :slight_smile:

I should add that I don’t drop intensity during a recovery week. My hard days I reduce the duration of the intervals to 50% of my peak week in that block. The intensity remains the same.