Been doing structured training for exactly a year (riding for two years total). I do a mix of TR workouts (Climbing Road Race Plan) and long outdoor Z2ish rides. This is not a criticism of TR. To be clear; I don’t follow the plans to the letter of the law and add extra mileage. Was just a little …

Do you use intervals.icu? I like to look at the power curve/vs % of max heart rate. It’s another way I can see improvement at different wattages through time. You can compare custom blocks of time against each other. Might be a way to gauge progress in another fashion, like Chad said. [IMG_1392]

[image] mcneese.chad: FTP is only one number or measure of fitness. This is the answer given [image] AussieRider: I definitely feel stronger Not all positive biological changes translate in increased FTP. Personally I feel I’m benefitting a lot from sweet spot rides and skipping them…

I guess I was wrong. I might give up cycling. :confused: [indoor] [outdoor]

meh on interpreting too much on those charts. Look at your power curve. Look at performances outside where the rubber meets the road. Then consider your life choices and cycling as a hobby :joy: So if all that looks :-1: then while people are tossing around ideas here’s my food for thought - I got …

I think your dates are wrong. Looks like you are comparing may 23, 2022 to may24, 2023 to only Feb 23, 2023 to may 24, 2023. Since the first time period overlaps and includes the second period, you won’t see any improvements in the second period since they’re baked into the first period. Try may 2…

Now that I look at it I think this is better? More watts for less HR max? [indoor chart] [outside chart]

Yes. A right shift. :+1: On that first one you’ve got some possible interval artifacts above ~270W. Don’t pay attention to the extremes. Look at the middle, roughly your zone2 up to about threshold.

Look like improvement to me. Anything down and/or to the right would be more output per heart rate. Six weeks isn’t a terribly long time to see improvement, I’m in the last week of a base block (oly mid volume.) Here is the first few months of this year compared with this block. I see more improveme…

So you’re getting plenty of easy riding, which is good. But you will see FTP get “stuck” if you don’t push VO2max up. You need to take test week then do a VO2max / anaerobic capacity training block. (I assume you’ve been doing an easier week every 3-4 weeks already, if you haven’t that’s part of yo…

Idk exactly how their algorithm works, but you definitely need big efforts to push up the number. Similar to the intervals.icu eFtp calculation, but probably factoring in non maximal efforts too. So in other words, doing the same thing over and over again isn’t going to push up your ‘predicted’ ftp.…

12 hours a week for 3 months; 0 watts gained. lol

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Now that I look at it I think this is better? More watts for less HR max?

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12 hours a week for 3 months; 0 watts gained. lol

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