Training Tips

How Much Sweet Spot One Should do is Individual and like Goldilocks. The tricky part about assigning a value to a...

January 22, 2024

Frank Overton

I wrote the original sweet spot article fifteen years ago and it is nice to hear how many athletes have added it...

January 08, 2024

Frank Overton

Sweet Spot training is a balanced amount of intensity and volume that increases an athlete’s functional threshold power (FTP) and...

December 04, 2023

Frank Overton

85,000 feet of climbing... and other stats and insights from Human Powered Health's two-week altitude camp in Andorra. Here is...

July 22, 2022

Ben Delaney

Pyramidal Training when combined with Polarized Training is the most effective training methodology compared to just polarized or just pyramidal....

March 06, 2022

Christian Parrett

As you can see, there are more x's in the sweet spot column than there are in zone 2 and...

January 17, 2022

Frank Overton

Coach Christian Parrett discusses pyramidal training: what it is, research studies from world tour athletes that support its use, real-world...

August 23, 2021

Christian Parrett

Coach Frank drops a solo episode this week on the FasCat Podcast discussing how he "invented" Sweet Spot Training and...

May 05, 2021

Frank Overton

When you have a Sweet Spot TSS Ride on your plan and the weather outdoors isn't cooperating, what do you...

March 28, 2021

Jake Rytlewski

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