Flanagan wrote:
Ideally indoor rollers. Canāt do everything indoors without going nuts, so certainly some outdoors. If outdoors just shoot for no stops and a low variability index (NP/AP). Often people confuse low VI with meaning āflatā roads, but hills are fine as long as Application of power is even enough to produce VI within a couple percent of 1.0.
Zwift wasnāt around when I originally did this. Would be easier to do indoors nowadays than pre-Zwift.
It was such a bad idea to dive straight into this program from an untrained level. I completely destroyed myself on day 2. I almost ended up hospitalized as my CK levels in my blood peaked at 1,600. Lol...ok now but approaching getting back in shape a bit more conservatively and free form. Just logging tons of time and miles on Zwift and doing the TDZ. Seems to be working.
Iāve decided the Flanagan plan, as written is for trained athletes looking for a specific FTP block. It is not for the untrained. If untrained, JFT seems to be a better protocol.