THE SHORT ANSWER
Christian Schrot, performance coach at team jayco, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Schrot lands on polarised training. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
WHO IS CHRISTIAN SCHROT?
Dr Christian Schrot is a coach at Team Jayco–AlUla whose technical work focuses on lab-based zone calibration: how individual fat-oxidation curves diverge from FTP-derived zones, and what that means for amateurs setting their training intensity off a 20-minute test. His perspective is particularly useful for time-crunched riders, because he is explicit about why over-correcting toward intensity stops moving fitness forward — and what to do instead. For the Roadman audience trying to make 80/20 actually work, he is one of the more practical coaching voices the show has run.
SCHROT ON POLARISED TRAINING
Schrot’s key positions on polarised training.
- An 80/20 distribution can flex (the 20 can land at 15 or 28 in any given week) — what's non-negotiable is that the 80 is genuinely easy.
IN SCHROT’S OWN WORDS
Verbatim from Christian Schrot’s appearances on the podcast.
“very often the time frame is very limited that means you want to get the best out of your your training and it feels just awkward going super easy when you have limited time. So most of them have the tendency to train in my perspective too hard uh uh in in most of their trainings uh or in other way around don't have enough uh endurance based training um and give their body also time to recover”
“if you really try to measure those things for example first of all in a lab situation then you can get much more accurate data uh on where might be this fat max what you you have talked of and which is also now in these days pretty much discussed the zone 2 training um but there is quite some difference uh so from rider to rider if you you really measure it in a lab you might see um that especially the fat metabolism um is pretty individual and uh not always relating uh to the standard models that might be applied with an FTP and derived zone”
HEAR IT ON THE PODCAST
Episodes where Christian Schrot covers polarised training and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Christian Schrot say about polarised training?
Christian Schrot, performance coach at team jayco, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Schrot lands on polarised training. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Schrot's main point on polarised training?
An 80/20 distribution can flex (the 20 can land at 15 or 28 in any given week) — what's non-negotiable is that the 80 is genuinely easy.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover Christian Schrot on polarised training?
Schrot discusses polarised training in this episode: "Why Your Cycling Training Has Stalled | Roadman Cycling Podcast".
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