AI FTP detection offered me 8w decrease, did a ramp test and got a 20w increase

[nene]

@cartsman

Basically “Hard” is how hard it was to complete the workout, not a measure of RPE. RPE for VO2 and Anaerobic workouts is always going to be pretty high, they’re always going to get your HR and breathing rate up high, but those workouts can still be “Easy” or “Moderate” if you feel like you’re on top of those efforts and could handle even more, you’re recovering quickly between intervals, you feel like you could do multiple more intervals at the end, etc.

Hmm… there seems to be contradictory information about how I should really answer this survey.

In the linked article it says:

Consider the overall difficulty of the ride and not how you expected it to feel.

I also remember from the Ask a Cycling Coach podcast it being described as:

Don’t answer like: for a VO2 workout this felt easy.

The descriptions of each intensity in “How to rate your effort” chapter seem to be much more clearly actionable though, especially when concentrating on how large part of the workout would you be able to repeat:

• Easy - could repeat this whole workout again
• Moderate - could repeat several intervals again
• Hard - could do one interval with some mental effort.
• Very Hard - would not be able to complete one more interval.
• All Out - barely managed to even complete the workout itself.