Originally Posted by
Wattsup
Yes, I am familiar with specificity, and again, that's what the idea of PT purports to refute, e.g. one does not need to do a lot of threshhold work in order to increase threshold most effectively, as paradoxical as that may seem. As far as hill climbing and which zone that falls into, I guess it depends on the hill. You seem to be simply saying "No, PT does not work" and "riders don't implement PT because it doesn't work." Those are two statements. Can you direct me to a reputable source that backs those statements?
That's not what I said.
I said:
So it's not so much a question of whether PT can be effective (again, nearly anything can be effective), it's a question of whether it is more effective than another methodology.
This is why I said hardly anyone does polarized training
In real life, hardly anyone actually does polarized
You can search slowtwitch for polarized and Seiler and all that. Other forums have it, too. Hundreds of pages of reading.