I’m coming back from a longer period of being sick. Not really up for intensity yet at all (I’ve tried), so I’m thinking to take the Traditional Base I-III progression to start with.
Which brings me to my question. What should I be aware off when starting a “static” plan which I just put on my own calendar, completely oldschool, without Plan Builder? I guess RLGL is going to work, and adaptations, but not changing the length of sessions or adding things along the way. Anything else?
RLGL and adaptations still work, you can manually choose workout alternates if you want a longer or shorter ride or think you can handle a larger bump in intensity.
Biggest difference I saw when I used the “static” base phase… it didn’t tailor its structure to my races/events, so if you have an A race for example, that week might still show a high dose of sweet spot and threshold and even a workout on race day. I just manually adjusted those weeks in the past, based on what I remembered a taper week looking like with plan builder previously - 2-3 short and easy workouts and then left a few days open before race day knowing I’d pre-ride the course the day before the race, which is effectively my opener for XCO races.
As @TexasToast mentioned, RLGL and adaptations proposed by Adaptive Training will still be working for you!
The main thing to be aware of, as they also said, will be manually moving some workouts around if you have any events/rides on your Calendar that happen to overlap.
Otherwise, it should be pretty straightforward – just apply the plan, and follow along.
