Sweet Spot zone and training in Athletica?

I’m confused on what Athletica is calling the Sweet Spot power zone for cycling.
In other platforms I’ve used, Sweet Spot is typically between 88% and 94% of your FTP and a gray area between the Tempo and Threshold zones.

In one of your zone maps, it calls sweet spot the 3a zone which is 72-78% of maxHR…

It’s hard for me to line things up since I can’t tell if that zone 3a is training similar thing as " between 88% and 94% of your FTP"…

Is this because Athletica doesn’t really believe in FTP based training?

Does Athletica use something equivalent to sweet spot training in its plans? I’ve heard a lot of coaches/sports scientists talk about the importance of sweet spot training in recent years…

Good blog on it here @mtnphotog. Correct in that Athletica uses CP, not FTP.

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