Used to be a fan of this guy…not any more, not after barely-veiled garbage like this: [image] Sweetspot or Sourspot? Is sweetspot really the best training method for 99%? Reading time: 13 min read (And it’s not because I’m a TR fanboy…cuz I’m not.…

SST is simply a must if you want to raise CTL (that’s what it’s for) and short on time.

[image] jpowers: Isn’t this guy associated with intervals.icu? Alex has helped me out quite a bit with Intervals.icu (e.g. training classification, mentions in his videos, link from his site) and I am very grateful for that and have given him credit on the site.

[image] Captain_Doughnutman: (“He is a qualified medical doctor at the University of Leicester UK and very experienced in scientific methods such as meta-analysis and big data”). We don’t know any better, he should. Unfortunately many medical professionals are practitioners first and scientis…

If this is so important, it should not be too hard to do proper comparative studies of representative POL vs SS models that have high enough N, last for at least 24wk, and are Set up so that the studies span the low, medium and high volume ranges. That would amount to at least 3 articles in total, g…

[image] buzzcock: it should not be too hard basically constitute a PhD dissertation :rofl: :100:

Well, key part of the discussion as it stands is basically paraphrasing studies to a variety of ends, so the discussion already takes place in a frame defined by sport sciences. But I should have specified that if it is so important for the sport science community, then study it properly. In this c…

The last sentence though. :thinking: :wink:

Seems extremely hard to me! Getting a statistically significant volume of athletes to commit to 24 weeks of adhering to a training plan you set them, and controlling it well enough to be able to strip out factors like sleep, nutrition, life stress, is pretty hard to start with. As you say, you the…

There are some data sets out there for statistically significant number of cyclists though. Consider this: Trainerroad has data on thousands upon thousands of people following Sweet Spot plans, and thousands upon thousands of people following Traditional Base plans. Better still, those people are m…

Sweet Spot or Sour Spot?

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