Results Of My First TD Training Plan

Training and Performance Fundamentals
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Volume went down quite a bit if both plans were 4 days/wk and it was 128 minutes a day and now is 100 minutes per day.

We could compare this as Avg Stress / Daily divided by Avg Minutes Daily:

128 / 99 = 1.29
100 / 75 = 1.33

Intensity has actually slightly gone up by a few percent.

If you were thriving at 128 minutes per day then you may want more volume.

You’ve had a big FTP increase. How are you finding the workouts, are they feeling like the “right” amount of effort?

Also, not sure if you want to go down the rabbit hole or not, but Seiler has a good video on Stress, Strain, and Load.

The TL:DR is:

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Dave

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The new plan has some threshold workouts in there, whereas the previous base+ plan did not.

As @dthrog00 calculated, the intensity is moving up a notch!

I think you will find it suitably challenging and rewarding.

If you really wanted to add anything to it, you have three spare days per week :wink:

Adding a low intensity ride on one of those days would be the safe way to up the volume without much harm being done. I don’t think it will be necessary, but it is the first option I would go to if it was.