In my opinion this is a marketing strategy to get customers by stirring up controversy with an established and respected company. No company can please every customer, and he appears (to my eye) to be hoping for “crumbs falling off the TR table” to drive customers to his coaching business. Its a sad marketing strategy IMHO and unfortunately these threads are supporting that strategy (getting people talking about fast fitness tips and Alex). It is also unfortunate he is associated with intervals.icu as @davidtinker has established an excellent reputation, but his involvement has me ready to ask intervals.icu to remove all my data.
Agreed, although I’ve not done a full analysis. Here is a partial analysis using the 2014 Stöggl and Sperlich classic study on 9-week polarized intervention: Polarized Training Workouts & Experiences (80/20) - #64 by bbarrera
Polarized: Two loading weeks of 11.5 hours, and a rest week of 6.5 hours.
TR SSB HV: 9-11 hours per week during loading weeks
Those end up with almost identical 6 week daily TSS average (TR’s proxy for CTL / training load). Sorry I didn’t take the time to plug those into TrainingPeaks to get actual CTL comparisons.