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Proper sweetspot training requires 20+ min intervals. Which you do at sweetspot instead of supra threshold to allow you to manage a few of them. Say 3 x 20mins, With 5 min recovery breaks, and 10 mins for both warm up and warm Down. So it ends up being 1 1/2 hours. At
least.Can you link any study to back this up?
I do shit loads of sweetspot climbing. Although not really by design. Its made me very fit while not moving my FTP a single W.
May be you weren't doing them properly?
Doing 'shit loads of sweetspot' shouldn't be the goal.
MicroDosed™
I was taking 'bang for buck' to mean most effective for shortest duration. So getting cooked in 30mins was my intention.
Proper sweetspot training requires 20+ min intervals. Which you do at sweetspot instead of supra threshold to allow you to manage a few of them. Say 3 x 20mins, With 5 min recovery breaks, and 10 mins for both warm up and warm Down. So it ends up being 1 1/2 hours. At least.
I do shit loads of sweetspot climbing. Although not really by design. Its made me very fit while not moving my FTP a single W. For racing (number on me, not front of bike) those with loads of Ws and little fitness can get into, and hold, the faster groups. Whereas I get dropped, finish late, and feel fresh as. Bastard annoying. So I've set aside a sesion or 2 a week for supra threshold climbing and/or 40/20s. It actually saves me time too.