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Amount of sweetspot training a week.

I've tried to find it but no matter where or how hard I do it I just can't seem to find the Sweet Spot. Does anyone have any tips?

Thanks!

anon,
Harrogate

I know a UK amateur who does 12 hours of sweetspot training a week.

I find it quite hard to find hills long enough in the UK to de sensible amounts of sweetspot, Spain has some lovely 20 min climbs you can do at that level.

If a bear does sweet spot in a carpark does it really sweet spot?

I don't dispute that, if you can do it and get the gains then fantastic.

I have one 60 mins away. 6% for 8 km.

So you can ride it at pretty much any intensity you wish.

Now that ive upped intensity. Im climbing a more local 10% 2km one. That one alternates between 3% and 12%. So the climb dictates intensity. I can just about sweetspot it.

I just ran along the bank of the Seine, does that count as sweet spot training?

:)

Anyone else, using stages, getting some mad power spikes? Today, apparently, I sprinted with a maximum of 4061W with cadence at 190rpm. Also figures are different if I look at the same ride, one of them uploaded to strava and another one on garmin connect.

Bull.

dat helmet. lolz
is that a zipper on his leg?

Some tester, no idea who he is.

For sweet spot have people tried trainerroad? It's a life saver at the moment as baby duties mean the only riding I get to do is an hour or so each evening, and I'm doing it all on rollers to make the most of it.

Definitely feeling fitter (physically and mentally) after a few weeks of using their workouts.

Actually no socks, could be a triantelope.

He's stuck air delaminators to his legs, like they have on Ridleys. That is amazing, as much as I see people buying speed, there's got to be a point where you must admit, some people are just always going to be faster than you because they're better.

No one has been faster than him for his combined chosen distances for the past 3 years, and only a handful of people faster at other distances. Whatever he's doing, it's working.

So he's faster that Matt Botrill? Who is he?

No one has been faster than him for his combined chosen distances for the past 3 years

@pnut was faster at 12h last year, @NikB was faster at 100 miles in 2013, Andy Bason was faster at 100 miles in 2012. That's just BAR contenders, Bottrill was faster at 50 miles in 2014 and 2013. I think what you mean is that nobody got a combined BBAR score higher than his in those three years :-)

Adam Topham, my bad.

Adam Topman

I don't think Tops' legs would fit in these trousers

I would agree sweet spot training has it's benefits but most definitely not a one stop fix for training. There seems to be a fixation with FTP amongst a lot domestic racers, but a large FTP will not win you races, in fact the cost of training towards a large FTP will most likely be to the detriment of the the attributes that you actually need to win races in the U.K.

I was talking about real racing

When sorry?
If you're referring to time trials, they are by definition not races, they are a trial, by time.