When to include sweetspot sessions
When to include sweetspot sessions
Sweetspot training has many benefits but it is also quite fatiguing, therefore if you jump straight into sweetspot sessions you will not only run this risk of being less explosive but you will also find yourself getting tired pretty quickly.
[series align=”left”] Over a prolonged period of time this may actually reduce the amount of time you spend training. For example, if you need two days to properly recover after each sweetspot session then you may only get three quality sessions in a week, whereas if you train at a base intensity then you should be able to complete two or three sessions back-to-back and this could mean that you actually complete five good sessions during a week, thus actually giving your body more of a training stimulus.
As discussed in my article on base training, one of the key benefits of building your base at a low intensity is that it prepares your body to handle a certain training load. Therefore, I would always recommend people start with base training and once that is in place then you can up the intensity, bring the hours down and start to introduce sweetspot sessions into your training.
When you’re ready to include some sweetspot training into your schedule, here’s an example of one of my favourite sessions.