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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 should I actually be doing?” In fact, our training tip on the subject remains one of our most popular. So today we break it all down and explain how much is enough for the pre-season, during the base build, and in season race mode. We’ll talk about how sweet spot applies to the different disciplines within cycling, and share our top tips.
We highly recommend going and listening to our episode on the invention of Sweet Spot where Frank discusses the basis of the philosophy. As always, thanks to everyone for rating and reviewing the pod on Apple Podcasts, sharing with a friend or teammate, and continuing the conversation in the forum.
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Great podcast guys! I feel like I have missed this somewhere, but I’m wondering how many minutes of SS you are recommending for say a 40+ masters road racer on 10 hours per week building CTL. I assume the chart you posted doesn’t mean you do that many minutes every ride?
I agree, the chart isn’t exactly clear. Does this mean 30 minutes each month, each week, each ride, each interval?
those values are per day in minutes.
You’ll also see similar durations if you are #FtFP’ing your sweet spot plan
You do not need to adjust your plan based on the podcast, #FtFP.
This podcast and all podcasts are talking generally a large audience. If you are on a sweet spot plan keep following that - we in no way meant for these general guidelines to be used to change the plan.
A good training plan is like an onion - there are many many layers. In this podcast I was talking about one layer - a daily sweet spot workout.
If you were to do Sweet Spot 1 > Sweet Spot 2 > Sweet Spot 3 you’d achieve the amount of sweet spot in these table simply by following the plan
Stick to it!
I can’t remember which podcast I recently heard the trivia about the blue whale, but I’m shocked there werent people racing to answer for the FedEx cookie. It’s vegan so it’s basically salad…