Originally Posted by
RChung
Look at the plot above. FTP will be essentially the same as "1 hr avg watts." Notice how well it's correlated with VO2 @ LT. Now look at how well VO2@LT is correlated with VO2Max.
Seems like the vo2LT does correlate very well with power... I can see why it doesn't correlate well with vo2max/kg though, that can be due to differences in where each person's LT occurs.