Originally Posted by
Psimet2001
For some reason you're not wanting to either test or post any previous test results. Until you do that anything you say about your FTP is a guess at best and horribly off at worst.
You're entitled to your opinion. I'm mainly taking issue with your vehement insistence that my FTP must be 220 (or whatever your latest estimate is) when my data suggests otherwise. There are many ways to estimate FTP:
Andy Coggan's Seven Deadly Sins
How to determine your Functional Threshold Power
In decreasing order of reliability:
- from the average power during a ~1 h TT (the best predictor of performance is performance itself).
- from the power that you can routinely generate during long intervals done in training.
- using critical power testing and analysis.
- based on normalized power from a hard ~1 h race.
- from blood lactate measurements (better or worse, depending on how it is done).
- from power distribution profile from multiple rides.
- from inspection of a ride file.
Last edited by Dunbar; 03-14-14 at 03:21 PM.