One hour and a half is the longest workout for Grand Fondo - Why?

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There is also problem with his approch to adding sweet spot work which there is a whole thread on:

Polarized Training vs. Sweet Spot (Dylan Johnson video)

Hi, I’m wondering if other people here have watched Dylan Johnson’s recent video comparing polarized training to sweet spot in which he presents a lot of data suggesting that polarized training is better. [Sweet Spot vs. Polarized Training: Which Makes You Faster? The Science] Do you think there’s something he’s missing or is this a compelling argument that we should be doing polarized training instead?

Sweetspot Base vs Less Intensive Endurance blocks

Possibly a contentious topic and one that is very much down to the individual, but I’d be interested to hear the opinions of athletes who have done TRs SSB plans and also blocks of just Zone 2 work. I’ve done TRs SSB numerous times and seen good FTP gains were others wouldn’t, but this doesn’t surprise me with the threshold work and VO2 later in the SSB2. So with this in mind I’m wondering that whilst my FTP is increasing, during what I’d consider the base phase, am I throttling the size of my…