Hi! With regard to Sweet Spot Training, I was wondering: which amount of time spend at Sweet Spot matters? Is it all about the total amount of time ridden at Sweet Spot during the whole workout? Or is it the duration of one Sweet Spot interval that matters? For example: consider a 4x10 minute Swee…

[image] Science behind Sweet Spot Methodology Training Edit (March 7, 2021): Frank, if you ever see this, thank you for this “digression”. It was basically the answer and discussion I was hoping to have 2 years ago when I posted this. I like scientists, too. I dropped o…

Thanks, although I don’t know if that really answered my question… I read the Xert-article and it states that even 78% FTP workouts are called ‘Sweet Spot’. In that case, I can understand it won’t be that effective at all. But say those two workouts I mentioned (4x10 and 2x20) are both at 92% of yo…

Longer is generally better for SS. I don’t know if you can quantify the gain by going from 4x10 to 2x20, but it’s there.

This was a super helpful explanation of a question I’ve had for a while – thanks!

Couldn’t explain it better!:+1:

Awesome explanation, thank you for contributing to the forum!! :beers:

I recently read a TrainingPeaks article titled “Go Faster Before You Go Longer”. Might be a hint at what to shoot for first. The rule of thumb is when you go longer drop the power down until you can do the long interval at the old short interval power. Rinse and repeat. And don’t forget, if you ar…

Sweet Spot Training: which amount of time matters?

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d_diston January 28, 2019, 4:07pm 2

This may help - some good refs downthread

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