Originally Posted by merlinextraligh

The point isn't whether its 105% or 85%.

The point is that it's meaningless to try to talk to each other about intervals expressed in raw watts, as oppossed to watts as a percentage of FTP.

It doesn't do anyone any good to know you do an interval at 250 watts because that translates to no one else.

It could be helpful to say I'm doing 8x3's at 85% of FTP, becuase someone else can apply that to themselves.


That said, what are you trying to accomplish doing 3 minutes at 85% of FTP, instead of just doing 30 minutes at 85% of FTP? That's essentially a tempo workout.