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So plenty of pro's do plenty of tempo or even SS
I was under the impression pros do a very low % of their training at tempo or SS.
miro_o-
Your most beneficial training session?
The thing I like doing most, and I do it in a lot of different ways, is to find a mediocre climb — a standard British climb, if you will — and ride it at below threshold. I find it brings me on the most. It’s sweetspot riding; those efforts where there isn’t huge stress put on the body but you get a lot from it. I tweak it and add some pace variation in, too.
Guess who?
I agree it'll be a low % most of the time but certain phases, Tempo seems to be used way more than you'd expect. Even Keegan Swenson said on his most recent TR podcast that if he can do his endurance ride as a tempo ride and therefore reduce his time on bike, he does.
onyerbike
So plenty of pro's do plenty of tempo or even SS, but polarised says you do either Z1 or Z3. So I don't understand why this study is relevant to my point about copying pro training (which clearly I think we shouldn't).