Originally Posted by
burnthesheep
For this stuff, how much low intensity volume are the fasted folks doing otherwise? I thought for the true fat adapt improvements you need to be doing some lower Z2 efforts with less carb demands kind of "80/20" style. With lots of volume in general. Not sure why I have that impression.
I don't train very hard anymore or at least right now.
My typical distribution was more like 88/12. Hard was very hard and slow was steady and long. Mostly just randonneuring brevets. Like a 300K in 11-13 hours or 400k in 13-16 hours type pace depending on motivation and hills. I would never do a hard interval session w/o sufficient glucose in my liver and sufficient glycogen in my legs. Like what would be the point? My yearly volume would range from a low of 9,000 miles to 16,000 miles but 13-14K would be typical. I enjoyed riding. Now, I have a lot of spine pain so, my rides are now much, much shorter and more intensity overall. And I drink beer sometimes and eat a pretzel, too.