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  • That's pretty much my philosophy - a good training plan is like a good diet - healthy but varied. Personally I just try to do a range of various training. Some long, fairly low effort rides, some long intervals, some shorter interval training and some HIIT work. Keep it mixed up. Mind you, I'm old, slow, and still a bit fat, so I'm not necessarily well-placed to give training advice.

  • Good or effective? They are usually aligned, but effective would be more focused and time constrained?
    An effective weight loss diet might be salmon, broccoli, brown rice every meal, but not a good one.
    You could also define a good diet/training plan as one that keeps you engaged an keeps you on plan. May end up with better results than a much tougher but more effective plan due to compliance.

    In training, I think variety is overrated, as long as you can maintain consistency/compliance.
    This might be my brain wired from spending too many hours in my youth drilling scales/arpeggios and doing 500 reps of the same Taekwondo kick in a row for practice...

  • This might be my brain wired from spending too many hours in my youth drilling scales/arpeggios and doing 500 reps of the same Taekwondo kick in a row for practice...

    Not the same thing. Muscle memory =\= fitness, but does = accuracy and subconscious repetition

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