THE SHORT ANSWER
Christian Schrot, performance coach at team jayco, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Schrot lands on Zone 2 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 ZONE 2
Schrot’s key positions on Zone 2 training.
- Fat oxidation curves are individual — lab spirometry will often show your true Fat Max and zones differ meaningfully from anything derived off a 20-minute FTP test.
IN SCHROT’S OWN WORDS
Verbatim from Christian Schrot’s appearances on the podcast.
“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 Zone 2 training and related ground.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
What does Christian Schrot say about Zone 2 training?
Christian Schrot, performance coach at team jayco, has appeared on the Roadman Cycling Podcast. Here's where Schrot lands on Zone 2 training. The positions below are drawn from those conversations, quoted directly.
What is Schrot's main point on zone 2?
Fat oxidation curves are individual — lab spirometry will often show your true Fat Max and zones differ meaningfully from anything derived off a 20-minute FTP test.
Which Roadman Cycling Podcast episodes cover Christian Schrot on zone 2?
Schrot discusses Zone 2 training in this episode: "Why Your Cycling Training Has Stalled | Roadman Cycling Podcast".
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