gumballer9

Ok guys I been surfing the forums lately to find Abbreviations i dont understand so here they Go....

WATTS...

FTP...

LT...

BPM...

KG...

TAXC...

HR...

TSS...

ATL...

CTL...

Peaking???

and whats Keeping Elbows Sharp ???

Flame all you want I dont care. I want to learn all the abbreviations for the sport. Thanks Gumballer9

roadiejorge 

IMHO you should HTFU and either search or stick around long enough to know what it all means.

mattm

Watts is a unit of work (like "wattage") - not an acronym.

FTP is Functional Threshold Power (or "1 Hour power")

LT is Lactate Threshold

BPM is Beats per Min (HR, or Heart Rate)

KG is kilograms. 2.2 lbs = 1 kg

TAXC is... no idea. Either a type of trainer or those water bottle holders made of carbon.

HR is Heart Rate

TSS is Traning Stress Score

ATL is Hotlanta, I mean Acute Training Load

CTL is Chronic Training Load

Peaking? I'll let you figure that one out.

Keeping elbows sharp must mean to keep them bent - a common newb mistake is to keep them locked straight.

For all the TSS/ATL/CTL stuff see here.

bdcheung

Watts: A measure of power. In cycling, a measure of the power a rider is applying to the pedals.
FTP: Functional Threshold Power. The mean maximum power you can sustain for one hour.
LT: Lactate threshold. The level of exercise at which your body produces lactate at a faster rate than it can absorb/burn it.
BPM: Beats per minute (heart rate)
kg: Kilogram. Unit of measurement for mass.
HR: Heart rate.
TSS: Training Stress Score (c), a concept developed by Coggan and Hunter to measure the overall stress on the body of a given workout.
ATL: Acute Training Load. The average daily TSS over a short (usually 7 day) period.
CTL: Chronic Training Load. The average daily TSS over a longer (usually 42 day) period.
Peaking: Orgasm.
Sharp elbows: Don't know, but I do know you have sharp knees.

bdcheung

IMHO you should STFU and GTFO STWCAQ.

Don't know what that last one means? Well, HTFU.

KZBrian

Don't feel bad, Gumballer! I have been riding for 40 years and only knew five of them.

umd

I guess I'm doing it wrong.

steveh2

TAXC...

It's what you have to take home if you ride too hard in the early going.

TMonk

damn dude that sucks

Jynx

TAXC should be TACX. It is a company.

Vireo

If you don't know what these terms mean then my guess is they don't pertain to you, your skill level, or your current equipment. And learning them prematurely will just make you a talking-head with no real road experience to back it up.

KCWolfPck

Nice comment........Mr. High & Mighty.

KCWolfPck

I'm still tring to figure out:

HTFU - I'm thinking Hush The F Up
Fred - No clue?

tmhudg

Man, the out-and-out rudeness of some of the people on this list just floors me. Here's a guy who pleasantly introduces himself, and presumably is trying to read and learn about different aspects of the sport. Maybe he will never want to measure his WATTS much less talk about it like he's some sort of expert. Maybe he's just curious about what those terms are in the context of a sport he likes.

"Sorry Bud. If you don't know what it all means, you don't deserve to know. Plus, by not telling you, I'm saving everyone else who you might meet from the remote possibility that you might embarrass yourself in front of them."

Sheesh!

IbikezLA

I still don't know "IMHO"

tmhudg

IMHO = In My Humble Opinion

umd

Wow, lighten up. Almost all of those are power training terms. If you don't have a power meter then there is really no reason to know them.

You are reading a lot more into that than what was actually written.

kgabike

Not a lot of humble opinions around here, huh? Or at least, not enough. Some people could use a dose of SoftenTFU.

mattm

Close - it's Harden The F up. As in don't buy a trainer because it rains a lot where you live, just HTFU and "ride your friggin bike you weenie" as pcad would say.

Fred - you'll have to search on that one, it's too involved to explain, and in the end too boring.

kgabike

And he knew they were power training terms exactly how? Do you see how ridiculous your answer is?

He asked about something he didn't know and you expect him to know that he doesn't need to know it even before he knows what it is.

Wouldn't a polite and adequate answer be (to paraphrase your words) "These are all power training terms. If you don't have a power meter then they probably won't mean much to you."?

And, of course, if you wanted to be generous you could always add, "But if you're interested anyway, here's what they mean." and give an answer or a link to a page with answers.

It's also a possibility that he's an engineer or in some other technical field where he would relate to the technical concepts and find the information interesting even if he doesn't own his own power meter. People of all different backgrounds get into biking for all different reasons. I think we should leave it up to him to decide whether, when it comes to biking terms, he has a "reason to know them".

umd

The terms had already been defined several times in the thread. Get a grip dude.

tmhudg

Huh? If you don't have something, there's no reason to want the definition of related things? So, I'm reading about the Large Hadron Collider because I think it's cool and I come across an acronym. Since I don't have one buried in my backyard, I don't get to know the meaning?

Well, that's the gist of what it sounded like to me and I exaggerated a bit to make the point.

I guess my main point was that it seemed rude to reply to the question with a "you don't need to know". If someone were to come up to me in person and ask a similar question, I would think that most people would consider a response of "you don't need to know that" to be overly judgmental and rude wouldn't they?

umd

You guys are funny.

wanders

Vireo being called out for being rude. Now that is funny.

Flatballer

I laughed. If they think Vireo is rude, just wait until they meet someone who actually is.