I was enticed by the structure of the workouts, plans, calendar, forum, and podcast that TR offers. With the hopes to push my FTP up via the structured training, progression that TR offers, and the competitive price I signed up Mid-October 2020. Working through mostly low-mid volume SSB with one G…

Just curious because you mentioned ski trips. Have you taken breaks where you actually rest for a week or two? There’s a big difference between a week of rest and a week of skiing.

How’s your outside results going? My FTP has dropped a bit since I started July last year. I think I am just one of the 7.5% ramp test lower outliers (its good for 85% of people but 7.5% test too low and 7.5% test too high). Performance outside though seems to have went up judging by TT PRs, if you …

@Pbase just a quick scroll through my calendar it looks like I have not had a full week with zero physical activity in my adult life… maybe that’s what I need. Earlier I stated that I really enjoy the ‘work’ and putting in the effort to get stronger. I don’t dread the prescribed workouts and typi…

@HLaB most of my outside rides are recovery or where I am just enjoying my time outside and not looking at numbers, but on a few occasions I have done better on some segments. The ever present measuring stick of FTP (ramp test) gain/loss is what I typically use to assess my fitness. It is easier t…

It is easier indeed to keep things more consistent indoors but bare in mind the ramp test with ERG just doesn’t suit everyone; I think particularly the lighter riders. So you may be getting fitter/ stronger despite that one metric. IIRC my FTP based on a 20mins non ERG test prior to TR was 280w. M…

[image] Grant_Harkreader: But I still don’t understand why FTP hasn’t budged in 8 months of structured training. Lots of good points were made in this thread. At some point, we all max out on current training volume and stimulus. At that point, you need a different stimulus. One might be at …

Hi everyone. Sorry, feel a bit lost on the site but enjoying your threads. I am a triathlete and would love to join Trainnerroad to work on my biking… Can someone please send me a "recommendation* or link to try it out please. Thanks Jackie

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I appreciate everyone’s input and have decided to take it easy for 5 or 6 days and stay off the bike. Then roll into SPB MV. I’ll update this thread after that 8 weeks.

Grant, It will be interesting to see how the MV plan goes. Looking at your OP, looks like you have a very solid level around 280w Give or take and based on the fluctuations of the day, the test method and the PM. All good. It may be that 4 w/kg is what you will achieve with that type of training…

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