If you've never read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, I'd highly recommend it. Gives you a lot of thought on the freak vs. opportunity/time put in theories.
Posted By Jennifer Burbatt on 21 Oct 2011 10:51 AM
If you've never read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, I'd highly recommend it. Gives you a lot of thought on the freak vs. opportunity/time put in theories.
I'm way past my 10000 hours but unfortunately most of it was spent below Z3. I did 430 in my first year with EN, so only another 23 years to go and I'll be fast!
@Jennifer, I haven't read that book, BUT my wife did and got the lo'down along the way...
and from what Chris said about spending those 10,000 hours in the wrong zone is a pretty interesting comment and speaks volumes towards what makes EN a little different.
John, remember that CTL is a function of your FTP and Vdot. If you train to a CTL of 100 with an FTP of 220 and a Vdot of 48, and then the following year you train to a CTL of 100 with an FTP of 250 and a Vdot of 51, you've done much more work the second year. TSS (and therefore CTL) is effectively a normalized way of looking at work in a week, normalized to what your current capability is.
Increasing fitness really ought to be looked at through the lens of FTP and Vdot, not CTL. CTL is useful within a season (as long as your threshold isn't changing wildly, like coming off of an injury). Also offers some good benchmarks for training. It's especially unreliable in the OS, with all the intensity work, since it will (by definition) be low.
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I'm way past my 10000 hours but unfortunately most of it was spent below Z3. I did 430 in my first year with EN, so only another 23 years to go and I'll be fast!
and from what Chris said about spending those 10,000 hours in the wrong zone is a pretty interesting comment and speaks volumes towards what makes EN a little different.
Science of Sport Blog pokes a lot of holes in the 10K hours theory though.
http://www.sportsscientists.com/2011/06/10000-hours-doping-sports-science-in.html
Increasing fitness really ought to be looked at through the lens of FTP and Vdot, not CTL. CTL is useful within a season (as long as your threshold isn't changing wildly, like coming off of an injury). Also offers some good benchmarks for training. It's especially unreliable in the OS, with all the intensity work, since it will (by definition) be low.