Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom with us Dr. Seiler! I am a huge fan of your work have read everything I can get my hands on that’s related to your concept or polarized training. I just read Jan Olbrechts “The Science of Winning” and it was transformative in my understanding of training but also left room for a lot of questions. My takeaway is that he is another advocate of polarized training but he advocates a limited time or “power training”, which corresponds to threshold type training and extensive intervals, only to be done during the last few microcycles of a training plan. Are you familiar with his work and how would you recommend allocating the bulk of ones base phase for the intensive work? Do you still think it’s best to do something like 4 x 16 minutes corresponding to LT2 or do you think doing shorter more intense intervals is a better route as espoused by Dr. Olbrecht? Thank you again for sharing your wisdom with us lay folks!
Great content! Thank you! I was curious about the low intensity part of the polarized model. In a 5 zone system, is this somewhere in the middle of zone 2? Lower? What percentage of FTP?
Why would you go indoors during a respiratory pandemic when they have said from the very beginning that outdoors is safer. Stale air from being indoors a lot is why these thinks spike in the winter. I INCREASED my outdoor activity last year as did a lot of other people. The biking and hiking trails got down right crowded last year so I started going at 5:30 AM on weekdays and avoided crowds on weekends. Maybe I was lucky that they closed business but never closed the great outdoors. They left hiking trails open but closed trailhead parking lots. The level of incompetence of governments is astonishing. I did a 600 mile long-distance backpack trip in 2020 in the mountains of California that took 6 weeks. I did the same trip in 2021 and calculated a 8.5% increase in speed and miles per day. Cant wait to test again next year.
