Originally Posted by
davester
That's the whole problem with the bogus formula...it makes people think that they are at a higher training level than they actually are.
During a brief, extraordinarily painful effort to do high intensity, zone based "training" last year, I used numbers--lactic threshold, max heart rate, and ftp that had been lab tested and approved. My measured performance on the smart trainer always had the HR a zone or more higher than the power. The numbers or methodology might be bogus, but the pain was real. I just decided to forget about it and pedal on
