ultimate chad move: share your training and do the research for others and still win

Dylan is the guy who is VERY good at what he does, spoon feeds everyone with research and race proven facts, adds a comic side for zing, AND... is just a very awesome guy. Subscribers and the bike community are very lucky to have him. Stay safe Dylan.

Why is there no Dylan Johnson for all challenges in life? 😄😄

Dylan thank you so much for all your advice! You can't even imagine how useful it is for us!

Great video! Incredible information!

Great video as always. Inspirational and informative - keep them coming!

Great video. That’s just about cleared up all the questions I had about BP, thanks.

Impressive numbers, and super useful insight into this training method. Thank you, Dylan.

This method really works, I’ve been going since you released the video last year had best ever thank you Dylan !

Once again, great explaination of training and recovery.

You're videos have always been among the most helpful and insightful in training, that's for sure. But your humour is getting noticeably better with time! Great content and humour!

Hi Dylan....Really great and informative video......Seeing your exact training peaks pages really helped give meaning and context to your description....Thanks again.....Greetings from Hungary....Mark.

I just noticed you're already at 72k. Amazing how successful you've been with this channel. And I love it when good things happen to good people. Can't wait to see one of those 100k awards behind you.

great video Dylan, well said. Love the big kitchen sink weeks to boost the fitness. Thanks for posting this

Spot on Dylan! In the region I am from there is one race that counts for the pro's: The Tour of Flanders. This years winner, Van der Poel, did a 5 day stage race (1st) in the weeks before and since it was shortened with one day he added 'Liege-Bastogne-Liege' (6th), one of the toughest 1 day races there is, the day after the stage race. Two hard races in the following 8 days and no racing the week before. - He and Van Aert are interesting cases as they train very different than most 1 day specialists, changing what was seen as the best way to plan a season, worth to look into.

Solid video, solid content as always man.

I can tell you spend a lot of time researching for your content. Much appreciated. Love your videos!! You Inspired me to start my own channel and I just got 100 subs!!

Great video Dylan! I always learn something useful and it’s always backed by science and experience. Now, I’m going to go take my recovery very seriously...hardest part of training if you ask me

This was great. Thanks. We did this in college for rugby a bit and a lot in track for 1/2 mile and 1/4 mile training. Key was recovery. The the science is great to read. Thank you!

Great as usual man! 💪🏻😎

As always; a great and informative video + some great shots from the "Atlantic Coast Highway". A must ride location close to some of the most beautiful cycling terrain found in Norway!

Dylan these videos are great! One thing I haven’t heard anyone talk about is trail days scattered into training. Since trail riding isn’t as controlled as road/trainer and you get those big power spikes constantly it seems to get removed from training plans. Would love to hear you speak a bit about how to best include mtb days in a training plan (do similar races just way slower :D ).

Very interesting, and well damn that's some amazing training hours. Good work!

"I managed to take the win, but more importantly I got some great training numbers".

This channel is fascinating and so, sooooo far beyond my abilities!

This is such a well though out & helpful video. Great job!

Suggestion for another video: best way to warm-up and cool down in different training sessions. Great content 👍

Thanks Dylan epic stuff

Genuinely impressed you raced at the end of that block! Question: managing technical/technique (XC) training with the need for intervals, next video?

Incredible content!

Great vid mate!!

Great, informative video. Thanks!

Great video Dylan.

Great insight and much appreciated!!

Best video I've ever seen

Just awesome advice as usual coach. Hope to meet you at the 24 hrs. Old Pueblo in 2/2021 this time. Cheers!

Another great video! Thanks for sharing this informations!

Hey Dylan, thanks a lot for this great video! It was very instructive and well done. There's something else though that I'd really appreciate having discussed by you in a video: Heart Rate Drift over long endurance sessions, how to deal with it (e.g. ignore it or adapt power), how to minimize it (nutrition, hydration etc.) and how the drift is affected/reduced by training. I frequently see people asking questions related to this and personally, I'm also kind of disturbed by the huge amount of drift - basically a shift by one zone! - I still see in long (3h+) sessions, even though my power numbers have improved to a Cat1/2 amateur level (quickly, kudos to you! ;-) ).

Great stuff!

Just getting into cycling in a serious way after a lifetime of just riding for transportation. This is very interesting. Thanks from Australia 🇦🇺

Backward Hat Dylan is my spirit animal.

Diggin that Francis Cade B-roll

Superb, thank you

Hi Dylan, love the channel! Block periodization seems like something relative fit amatures can make use of. Please may I suggest a video: the concept would be looking at something like looking at the Sufferfest MTB plan (or similar) and seeing if it's doing stuff like block periodisation. Or perhaps giving suggestions for changes (to said plans) to make for (eg) an upcoming marathon MTB race. It's pretty difficult for mere motals to understand the complexeties of 12 week plans. Thanks a million.

Xert, interesting. Care to do a video about TP, Xert, or WK05. Differences, advantages, and if their science and algorithms are really helpful

excellent dude

Very interesting take

Hi Dylan! Can you do a video about polarised training and on how it works and it's effectiveness and when to use polarised training? Really be appreciated if you do one. Anyways keep up the good work! Cheers!

I'm going to have to watch this video like 10 more times to take in all that information.

i did just this recently. I gained weight during the offseason. After 4 months of no Vo2 workouts just trying to burn kjs i have done 7 Vo2s in 20 days while sustaining current volume. I had never done this type of thing. I am a distance rider riding with power for years. Today i may have did my best century ride to date. Fitness came on fast. Thanks for the great content!

Dylan I just want to thank you and let you know that if I ever find out who gives your videos a thumbs down, I will destroy them

What an animal, crushes it all week and finishes it of with a race win! BHD was awesome in this video!

This made me realize that my running coach had us do block periodization my last season. We did 5 interval workouts in a week and I was cooked the next few days, but eventually the gains started to roll in

Good stuff. I love block training and I’ve seen some of my best results after them but like you mentioned, the key for me, especially being a masters racer, is the post block recovery. I’ve found that I need almost 10days of solid recovery after a hard block to reap the benefits of the block but the overall gains seem to last for weeks. Thanks for sharing!

Love the Pisgah and Brevard area!

Dylan, I love your scientific approach accompanied by personal experience. Thanks for all the work you do researching these topics. I live in Southern California, so I ride outdoors year round. Most of my rides are hammering up local hills (roughly 3-8 minute climbs). Since I do so much climbing, are leg workouts using weights really going to help me much? Secondly, how important is it to ride with less intensity over the “off season”, given that I don’t really need to take an off-season, weather-wise (plus I’m not a racer and tend to ride similarly year round)?

thanks.. I have only 6 weeks to prep for Cascade Gravel Grinder my first gravel race - 58 yrs old mostly road biking - confirming my intuition of doing sprints on way back home. my main goal will be climbing - loosing 20 lbs would help lol..

First, thanks for the Eli Manning pic at 3:20. Second, I've been doing "Block Periodization" by accident for years; I'll usually train my brains out the week before I have to be off the bike (for vacation, work travel, or whatever) 2-3 times a year. I'm not sure if it works, but mentally I feel like I'm working hard if I go nuts right before being forced off the bike for a bit.

This was great. I would like to see your Fitness chart showing CTL and Fatigue and see how the graph predicts your form for the race!

Great video! Block periodization is really unbelievably effective. I switched from triathlon to cycling 6 months ago because of a running injury although cycling was my weakest discipline (I only rode my bike 2 times/week). I did 6 months of structured block training and could increase my FTP from 290W to 385W (5,3W/kg) and my VO2Max from 80 ml/min/kg by now. Now I have these numbers but haven´t even raced a single cycling race in my whole life because everything was cancelled due to Corona...

Thanks for making these amazing videos, learned a lot! Can you make a video about heart rate and power zones? Every platform has it's own system and TP has to many options. What to use 🤔 thanks!

I might try it! I usually stick with the 2 HIITs a week but willing to try this out!

Hello @Dylan Johnson, I am a big fan of your videos! With off-season now well underway for much of the northern hemisphere, I would love to see a video on nutrition for the off-season. With weight training being a very important factor in the off season and when looking for strength gains, I was wondering whether a kind of “winter bulk” would actually be a worthwhile consideration. I am not talking an epic bulk, where you gain dozens of pounds of low quality mass, but a controlled slight gain in weight to support strength gain and aid with recovery. In strength training something like this is very common, while I couldn’t find many cyclists doing this. Would be awesome to here your opinion on this.

Dylan Johnson on Xert aswell?! How nice! I'm a Xerter too. By the way that Xert-Fitness-Signature is of the hook! Almost backwardhat-Dylan style :p

I'd kill for that kind of FTP. Thanks for the great information.

Dylan - great video and well done on the result. Just wondering how much notice you give to Training Peaks fitness, fatigue and form numbers during this process? Do you adjust the training based on the projected form number for your event at all or just trust how you feel in the legs?

BHD was on point this video.

I had an 8 day in a row mountain bike ride trying to get to an elevation goal . Took 2 days off and then did a big ride with distance and allot of elevation climbed and I was quite strong and felt really good after completing the ride and not really tired . I took a mild ride the next day and I lacked energy and was sluggish with chronic leg muscle burn . I am not a professional type rider . I race from time to time . I like to challenge myself and it appears your theory Dylan has some merit with what I did which is not as scientific as with what you do . I feel really good today after yesterday's sluggish mild ride and will take the weekend off from riding . Normally I ride 3 days a week but have been experimenting with 4 days but like you said I dont want to burn out and not enjoy riding by overdoing it . I usually like taking the weekend off . So when XC racing starts up again in california I might go hard for 5 days and take a couple days off before the race to recover but I will have to test the hypothesis at lest a couple more times to see if its repeatable . I am almost at 60 so recovery may take a bit more time and I do have to be careful of injury and overdoing it .

Just wanted to let BHD know my new I9 wheelset came in this week and I immediately set new PR's on all my local trails.

I have used this once before during our local track race season highly effective as long as you take the rests, there was five of us who ride together who used this, me and one other ( both the vet riders ! ) really did the rest and recovery element the others just kept going in order to keep up that strava average speed ! Come the race days me and the other Vet rider basically smashed it best placing best lap speed the three riders who didnt use the rest periods 2 DNF one is still whinging now three months later about how his legs were heavy etc but hey they have a great Strava average speed !!

Great video 💪 sounds to me like a bloody hard week of training 😝😂

Eli as the poster boy for Hail Mary is not lost on me.

Great video! I do 3 regular weeks followed by one recovery week every month. I guess you could call the last week before the recovery period some sort of block periodization or "hell week" since it's extra tough. After my recovery week I do a FTP-test and almost always increase my numbers. Speaking of intervals, I do a lot of norweigan intervals in my training regimen (4×4 min with 2 minutes rest in between). Have you tried them and if so, what's your opinion? Thank you for always providing us with great content 😊👍

Crackin the code!

that handle bar tape,cannot accept that i see the metal clamp from the shifter, love your videos btw

Hey Dylan, season is about to end, yourself talking about your last race this season, could you do some off season content in the upcoming weeks? Nutrition, workouts, and of course resting :)

Great topic...Makes sense because you’re fit but rested...The real problem is most people don’t take rest seriously. You should write up a rest plan separately but in parallel to your training plan. That rest plan would incorporate ‘tricks’ and techniques that come from the latest research. It would also include an investment in rest promoting services like massage and acupuncture.

You are the best Dylan! Science facts, research , journals . The best! I would like your advice on which of your training plan do you suggest I subscribe, im planning on an endurance cyling around 220km next year in June. There’s a 30km with 2700ft elevation with max gradient of 13%. Which of your training plan do you suggest?

It's like I have my own personal trainer, but he lives across the ocean and doesn't know me. Thank you for all the work you put into these videos. Since I post this anyways, guys, how much do your gravel bikes weigh?

You threw in a race at the end of your training week, and won?? Do the others know that? :D Anyway, great video, as always!

11:25 Looking Glass Falls!!!

Good! The scientists live or stay in Lillehammer (the host of 1994 winter Olympic games), probably the best region for both single track mountain biking and cross country skiing in Europe, I think. Over 600 kilometers with groomed skiing tracks in the region and more singletracks for biking in summer. The region hosted the 2014 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. Lea Davison won bronze medal in XCO. Lillehammer also hosted the 2005 UCI Marathon World Championships. Since 1993 we have the Birkebeinerrittet: "the world's largest MTB event, and more than 17 000 bikers participate in the 94 km race every year". Mostly dirtroads up and across the mountain area where all the singletracks can be "discovered". Enjoy :-)

great content as always. what is your weight?? :)

So glad you're using Xert now - can't wait for a video showing your insights about the platform!

Thanks for the super video, again :) Would you recommend repeated block periodisation training months during the build phase (i.e. now), or should they only be done as a one-off about a month before a major event?

I just have to laugh because of how many of my friends videos you use. Ben Goyette is everywhere 🤣

I like how Dylan looks like a total cycling bro and yet he's like the only person I believe with his science based methods

Hi Dylan, thanks for a great video once again! Great job all in all! Do you think that block periodization can be transferred to running or is the load (physical on muscles and bones) too high? maybe by adjusting the total load. And do you think it is as effective when doing bike-run duathlon session, e.g. I your 1. week 1. day run intervals, 2. day bike, 4. Run, 5. bike and final day a bike-run session? Probably the gains in each discipline is not as much as in only bike as yours. Any opinion on that? Thanks ahead! BR and cheers from Finland, Kai

Honestly thank you for sharing your estimated FTP, as I see many "serious cyclists" say that "not serious cyclist" talk about FTP all the time so often that it made me think that in order to become a "serious cyclist" you should never ever say the word FTP, but luckily I was wrong. :D

Sounds like just what I need to get back into shape after a recent patella fracture 😅

Dylan-These videos are great. I have been doing a lot of research on the biology and physiology behind block periodization and trying to understand how this all works. If I am understanding things properly, for a block week or microcycle the focus is really on the same types of zone rides, let's say V02 max type intervals of one type or another for instance, and for the mesocycle or larger block after the big week the number of those sessions goes from 5 to 1 in the subsequent weeks. So a couple of questions. 1-should the remainder of the rides in those subsequent weeks be below VT1 or are they mixed? If they are mixed does that cause conflicting physiologic reactions between the stress adaptation mechanisms of the V02 Max high intensity work and the homeostatic regulatory adaptions of the lower intensity work? Second question is this. After completing a block mesocycle that has focused on V02 max, for example, then moving on to one that would develop hill climbing strength or some other aspect of riding, how does one maintain the gains made in the previous cycle's focus area. Thanks Dylan.

That was really inspiring. Last summer I was on a fitness plateau and could't figure out why. Now I'm pretty sure that block periodization would have brought me to the next level. Since I didn't change my training routine it is now obvious that improvement would stagnate at some point. Now I know what to do before my next race. Or would it make sense to put in blocks once in a while?

Dylan, what is your advice for hoe to train when you have to spend a lot of time off the bike because of work? I am trying to get as fast as I can next year; and have ben using your videos as training advice. However, I'm in the military and have to go out to the Feld relatively regularly, normally for a week or to.

great video.a gym session is a hit session or not?

I don't normally comment on anything, but I wanted to let everyone know that block training followed very strictly works quite a bit. I purchased "The Time Crunched Cyclist" as per Dylan's recommendation in another video and am four weeks into the beginner competitor program. Two things. One, ow! Interval pain is insanity. Two, my endurance miles speed is up a lot already. I am a beginner beginner to road biking and have just hit one year of riding with the past month being proper riding with a goal to get faster so I get that my initial progress will be higher. I used to have a HR of 125BPM going 12.5 MPH and now I can maintain 15.5 MPH with the same HR. I also don't feel like I'm working as hard for the extra 2MPH. It feels like endurance pace. Six hours a week is a must, which can be a challenge (I'm a full time student currently), but committing to it has paid off. There is a climb waiting for me when I reach peak fitness in four weeks and I'm starting to feel more confident I will be able to do it by simply following block training in a book that cost me $25. Keep up the interesting content Dylan! I am interested to see what winter training tips will be covered...

Hey Dylan, tip for another video maybe? I commute to work almost every day on a bike, a cx bike. Each trip is at least 30 minutes, mostly around 40-50 minutes, that gives plenty of time in the saddle during the week. I'd like to know how to maximize the gains out of that scenario. And I am sure I am not alone on this one :) any sort of insight would be appreciated. I checked all your training videos, and everywhere you are talking about one ride per day... so what to do when I have two? :) Thanks for any answer or consideration. Your channel is great, thanks for that as well :)

Hi Dylan. Would you consider sweetspot as one of the weekly HIIT training or not? Thanks

Nice job man. PS what tires were you using on the BWR?

Nice! curious what was your form score day before the race?

here are a few questions that i can't find answered anywhere (i only use an HRM btw): 1. at what zone-, and how long should a warm-up be? when i'm on a stationary trainer, it usually takes me up to 50 minutes for a proper warmup to get to upper zone 4 (my hr graph looks like an up-hill saw-tooth). if i just warm up at upper zone-2, and then try to go bang out VO2max intervals. that just would not work what so ever. or is that what the point is? to go from an easy warm-up pace, to zone-5 as fast as possible? 2. when should the timed interval start? when you start to exert effort in order to reach target HR? or when you reach target HR? 3. when should you start timing your recovery period? when you stop your interval and start to ease up? when you cool down to target rest HR? 4. what HR zone should be the recovery part? even after a 50 minute warm-up, it takes a while to get up to my target interval HR. my VO2max interval graph NEVER looks like the one on the white board. the upward HR slopes aren't nearly that steep