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Not Trained?

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No problem, if you are not trained or out of shape, you need to start with the basic. Don't start with an High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) because it's useless and counterproductive (also Psychologically)  Don't enroll in a race (or several) on Zwift... because it's stupid :-) You want to suffer? Take the Ramp test and try to determine your FTP, I know it's hard, you don't want to do it? No problem try to guess what is your FTP, how? Put your Heart Rate Belt and try this exercice The FTP is set to 200, you can reduce it before the Download Once Downloaded, by clicking on the ICON, you need to put the "zwo" file in a specific Directory before starting Zwift Once you have the file you can follow the instructions here  if you don't know what to do with the file. Once Zwift is started, you can open also zwift Companion because you can see the exercice, I don't watch my avatar once zwift started, I don't know how many trees, how many moun...

Where to start ?

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It's all about Science :-) I will post here all the necessary links concerning my trainings, all my trainings are created with Zwift Workout , zwift workout is a very simple tool, in few click you can create a workout. Few words I try to do my training based on the 80 / 20, also called "Polarized Training" or on the "Pyramidal Training" 75 / 15 / 5, both methods share almost the same amount of time in "Low Intensity", if I start after a long break, I will even go to 95% of my training in "low intesity" to build up What is the "polarized training" ? Well it's a method where you spend 80% of your time relax, by relax I mean in "Low intensity". To make it simple, we have two threshold - Low Intensity = Burning Fat - First Lactate (you reach 2mmol/l) if you are below you can keep the pace for a while, this is typically the pace for a Marathon (unless you want to walk by going faster) - Moderate / Hard Intensity = Sugar - S...