Citizenfox wrote:No PM doesn't mean your not serious, and going out and hammering until you're eyes bleed doesn't mean you're not having fun.
With all due respect, you again seem to have missed this crucial point
Have a look at serious training sans powermeter.
It is effective, no one, and certainly not me, are claiming otherwise. The sessions, the micro/macro cycles don't really change whether you have a PM or not.
It's a sliding scale, and if you really were as serious as you could be about training you'd have one.
As much as I hate appeals to authority or N=1 surveys, I will say that I've been 100% serious about my training for years. Last year I had to go 3 months without a power meter. I was heading to Europe to race, so could not have been more driven to make sure I was in terrific shape. Only the sessions were just not as finely tuned without a power meter as they were with one. I know how to hurt and I'm good enough at TTs to know how to gauge my RPE, still could not get the quality I needed.
I was serious. I'm sure you know guys who are serious. But like it or not, they provide a performance management aspect that is the step above anything else on offer. Without it, you're selling yourself short and 'not (as) serious' as you could otherwise be.
Cal - your post lost me mate