L2 Vs. Zone 2 Training? 50+ cyclist, trying to understand

[John Sirabella]

Hello All,

I am a 50+ cyclist who used to train with a power meter and I believe I used to post on these forums and you would have Coggan actually post at times. Anyway I had a great computrainer and road it into the ground with SST training. Zone 2 which seems to be L2 was never done less you had hours of time to do it. Best bang for your buck was SST (2 or 3 x 20 intervals).

FF almost 15-20 years and I decided to take everything out and got two of my old bikes back up and bought a wahoo trainer and zwift account. No one does SST. What happen? Is Zone 2 Level 2 or something else? Are Zones and Levels the same?

Thank you for reading and apologize for my ignorance. Wish I never stopped the cycling cause I would have lived on Zwift when it came out. Now my body can not do the 3 hour sessions with these joints.

-JohnCervelo (I think this was my handle at that time, no more Cervelo long sold)

 

[dommyk]

"Zone 2 is indeed a time-consuming process, but with modern cycle computers, you can optimize your SST training with precision, I'd recommend exploring Garmin or Wahoo units with advanced cadence and power metrics to boost your performance."

 

[John Sirabella]

"Zone 2 is indeed a time-consuming process, but with modern cycle computers, you can optimize your SST training with precision, I'd recommend exploring Garmin or Wahoo units with advanced cadence and power metrics to boost your performance."

Thank you and wow Garmin is hot. I see all these channels with Garmin devices. I am amazed how far everything has come.