I concur. I’ve had athletes that handled an SPP split phase of 3 weeks on with four relative HI days, 1 week concentrated LO tempo, 2 weeks on four HI days.
These athletes demonstrated progressive recovery cycles prior to this phase and received consistent recovery therapy during as well. The one disadvantage I found with most of these athletes was an inability to maintain a progressive compensation cycle beyond two micros during comp phase. Quite different with those athletes using a 2-3 HI day micro similar to that often discussed on this forum.
I often felt that some latent overtraining pattern had kicked in. However the performances with the former during initial comp was outstanding.