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.…

Never heard of him before. He doesn’t appear to have ever looked at a TR plan. Sweet spot base is an alternative to traditional base training and lasts 12 weeks. Only the high volume plan uses just sweet spot workouts. The mid and low volume sprinkle in over/unders and V02 from what I recall. I gues…

Well I am a time trialist so I still use a lot of SS which he even suggests is ok. I also race mostly 10/25/50 mile races so it is useful. If I just did 10s and track racing I would do more VO2, if I did 100s I would moved to polarised and up my volume…which I don’t have time for but since most of m…

Reply to your ghost quote regarding the low-skill in presenting/interpreting studies et al on the forum…fair enough, but almost all TR forum users are not (claimed) science professionals like the blog author (“He is a qualified medical doctor at the University of Leicester UK and very experienced in…

He brings up some valid points and he’s not alone in his thoughts. However, I don’t buy into the idea that there is an optimal training philosophy. There is a time and place for multiple training styles. Not sure I can recall a time when any TrainerRoad staff member claimed SST was superior to a Po…

Isn’t this guy associated with intervals.icu?

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…

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Is this the guy who misread the TR public website and then made a video based on the misread? Like a month or two ago?

[e] It is, I knew that name was familiar.

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