Anyone familiar with, or tried, the 80/20 method of training? I heard about it recently from a friend and picked up a book about it by Matt Fitzgerald. In short, this method advocates that 80% of your training be easy in zone 1-2, and 20% of it be hard in zone 4-5. I know I always hear that most of our easy work outs are too hard, and our hard workouts are too easy. So this method seems to be consistent with that line of thinking.
I’m interested in trying this out, but am having a bit of a hard time buying into doing 80% of my workouts at that easy of an intensity. Most of the evidence/science Fitzgerald sites in his book are from pretty small studies, so are in themselves not super convincing to me.
Just curious what your experience, if any, has been with this training method.
Thanks in advance.
I’m interested in trying this out, but am having a bit of a hard time buying into doing 80% of my workouts at that easy of an intensity. Most of the evidence/science Fitzgerald sites in his book are from pretty small studies, so are in themselves not super convincing to me.
Just curious what your experience, if any, has been with this training method.
Thanks in advance.