Originally Posted by
fattires
Yes, no doubt. My inability to convey my real point led folks astray. I believe the guy who started the max heart rate thing was Maffetone. It was his training theory that I was attempting to draw attention to, not his heart rate thing. My bad.
I think his idea is that 80% of your rides should be zone 2 and the other 20% should be zone 4 or 5. That isn't something everybody in the world agrees with, partly because everyone has their own goals. But something everybody can take away from that idea is different intensities are good, and if you want to do the hard stuff you need to be recovered enough to really do it. A lot of people try to go balls out all the time, make some progress at first, then plateau below their potential.