Originally Posted by
MoAlpha
Not going to address specific training plans, which, as others have pointed out, need to be designed for a purpose. I just want to endorse the polarized training approach and urge anyone serious about training for endurance sports to go and have their blood lactate curve measured or buy/borrow a meter and do it themselves. Zone accuracy counts!
This is interesting. I guess that is the gold standard, but do you think it is really that critical for productive endurance training? I set my training zones relative to a 4 point FTP/MAP/AC/NM power curve and that appears to work fine. I'm curious what measuring my blood lactate would bring to the party at this point? I understand that my training zones would be refined (at least at the point of measurement), but are they likely to change significantly from what I train to anyway? I'm pretty sure I know my FTP/MAP power to within 10W.