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Lionel Sanders - training in the middle?
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I'm quite comfused with Lionel Sanders post from january 2016, https://lsanderstri.com/...the-middle-expanded/
He seems to preach about shorter and harder intervals in that post.
But when I look at his power distribution from 2016 (https://lsanderstri.com/...2016-by-the-numbers/), there is almost nothing on threshold and over. His threshold is about 400 W (looking at trainingpeaks data). This means less then 30 min/w both threshold and vo2max intensity.

Can someone clarify this for me? zone 5 and upper seems to be about 5% of the training volume.

Also the zones are strange, its not coggans zones (which he used before).
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Re: Lionel Sanders - training in the middle? [johan123] [ In reply to ]
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I'm fairly certain those are in hours. so about 60 hours threshold and 10 V02.

For the amount of volume he puts in, his graphs look pretty much how you'd expect (heavy zone 1/2/3) with the emphasis on zone 2/3 as that is where a majority of his time would be spent.

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Re: Lionel Sanders - training in the middle? [johan123] [ In reply to ]
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Can you say, "pyramidal"?
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Re: Lionel Sanders - training in the middle? [johan123] [ In reply to ]
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He does plenty not to work above threshold. You have to factor in recovery from hard intervals, with, cd, etc. Its plenty.
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Re: Lionel Sanders - training in the middle? [ddalzell] [ In reply to ]
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So His zone5 391-420 is his vo2max? I have a hard time believing that.
And his threshold should be in the 340-390?

That would explain the distribution, but then his zon2 starts at 216 watt..
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Re: Lionel Sanders - training in the middle? [johan123] [ In reply to ]
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As far as his zones, I honestly don't know what his zones are. The more I dig into it (with the help of Coggans charts.. WKO4) the more I see zones are specific to each athlete above FTP and that its possible for his v02 zone to reflect that. So without seeing anything further... I can't really comment much more on that.

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