Sweet Spot Interval Length

[bbarrera]

@Captain_Doughnutman

To readdress the OP – doing progressively longer SS intervals will lead to more Time in Zone and more SS adaptations.

Simply put, sweet spot is where many see biggest jump in ftp as Coach Chad mentioned here:

When do you usually see the most FTP gain?

@dbf, I used to see the biggest gains in FTP with riders doing more traditional base plans. But with the Sweet Spot emphasis in place of LSD, it’s becoming really common for the comparatively bigger bumps in FTP to take place during 12 weeks of SSB. Then, the Build plans become more about building stamina at that higher FTP but still with some subtler rises in FTP. Then, of course, the specialization phase is about refinement and specificity, though certain plans/disciplines can still yield incr…

and Nate’s big jump in ftp was a result of spending a very long time doing sweet spot work (more than 6 months, less than a year?).

My biggest gains prior to TR were a result of increasing sweet spot efforts out to 50 minutes, like stated in first post. And I believe @Captain_Doughnutman is doing similar long sweet spot efforts during his “2nd base after build” (rebuild).

Apologies if this was all covered earlier in the thread.