Originally Posted by
adamrice
If you are getting fitter but using the same FTP number, your workouts get easier and easier—you're not stressing your body as much—but you keep stepping up your CTL. That seems great! No pain, all gain.
Do people actually do this in real life? I don't know anyone that does the same workouts in the hopes they get easier. It's completely antithetical to the entire point of doing workouts: getting faster.
I can understand maybe group rides getting "easier", in the sense that maybe you don't get dropped. But going out for 4 x 5 minutes of hill repeats? Or 45 minutes of threshold? Or whatever other random workout that's become the flavor of the week?
I don't ride with or really talk to newer riders, so maybe this does happen, but it sounds pretty bizarre.