Training Tips - Sweet Spot
Expert training tips, nutrition advice, podcasts, and more from FasCat's coaching team.
Sweet Spot OTS Rides
Sweet Spot OTS Rides are our way of prescribing an amount of training based on duration and intensity. TSS is Training Stress Score, calculated from duration...
How To Sweet Spot During a Group Ride
Twenty years ago, I introduced the concept of Sweet Spot Training , and it’s been incredibly rewarding to see so many athletes embrace it and reap the...
How Much Sweet Spot Training Should You Do?
How much Sweet Spot should your Sweet Spot workouts have? Sweet Spot training is a balanced amount of intensity and volume that increases an athlete’s...
Inside a Tour de France Femmes Training Camp
85,000 feet of climbing in 13 days Human Powered Health is racing the Tour de France Femmes, and to prepare, the Women’s WorldTour team spent two weeks at...
Pyramidal and Polarized
Pyramidal Training when combined with Polarized Training is the most effective training methodology compared to just polarized or just pyramidal. (Codella et....
Sweet Spot versus Zone 2 Training Plan Design
The physiological benefits of sweet spot training are illustrated in the table below: As you can see, there are more x's in the sweet spot column than there...
Is Pyramidal Sweet Spot Training Better than Polarized?
Coach Christian Parrett discusses pyramidal training: what it is, research studies from world tour athletes that support its use, real-world examples of how...
How I Invented Sweet Spot Training
Coach Frank describes and tells the story of how he "invented" Sweet Spot Training and how he integrates it into his coaching philosophy. Here is the training...
Sweet Spot TSS Rides Indoors
Coach Jake's Sweet Spots his way to 214 TSS Indoors: When you have a Sweet Spot TSS Ride on your plan and the weather outdoors isn't cooperating, what do you...
Podcast: How Much Sweet Spot Should You Do?
We're back with another discussion of one of FasCat's main training philosophies: Sweet Spot. A big question we receive by athletes is "how much sweet spotting...
Sweet Spot Training: Advanced Aerobic Endurance
In January of 2005 I was working with group of coaches and sport scientists developing a new power based impulse-response performance model . While we were...
Sweet Spot Polarized Training
Now that you've been building a big base, summer is here, and you're wanting to "sharpen the sword", we've designed a brand new addition to the Sweet Spot...
Sweet Spot Training with Dr. Andy Coggan, Ph.D
We are honored to talk about sweet spot training with Dr. Andy Coggan, Ph.D on this podcast. Dr. Coggan is an Associate Professor of Kinesiology at Indiana...
How to Sweet Spot
Buongiorno! It has been 15 years since I wrote the original Sweet Spot article and it is nice to hear how many athletes have added it to their training and...
Sweet Spot Training for the Triathlete
No matter what distance triathlon you're training for, Sweet Spot training can be a useful addition. The key is timing it correctly to your training phases so...
