Ben Greenfield discusses why women may need less Zone 2 endurance training than men. Women have more slow-twitch muscle fibers, greater mitochondrial density, and better metabolic flexibility, so Zone 2 work may be lower priority for them.
In case there's any question, the bike can do a lot more than just rehit. In fact, even though we're not the biggest fans of Zone 2 and we think that Zone 2 has been overhyped, maybe a big claim now, but I would argue that our bike is probably the best tool you can use if you want to do Zone two perfectly.
Women have completely different physiologies, and I'm just curious if there's anything you found in the type of approach with a woman versus a man when it comes to Zone two intensities.
You're absolutely right in pointing that out, and I think what this leads to is it shifts the priority of Zone 2 further to the back, so women have more slow twitch fibers, have greater mitochondrial density kind of on average than men, and have greater metabolic flexibility. So therefore the targets you're trying to achieve with Zone two training are maybe slightly lower priority for women than for men.
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