AI FTP Detection Update

[Nate_Pearson]

@OreoCookie

The actual problem as I see it is that people use TR’s FTP as the main metric for fitness. Rather than renaming things, adding to confusion, I’d invest in creating and surfacing better performance metric and make those explicit to users. These should depend on the plan and your goals. E. g. if an athlete chooses a crit plan, then absolute short term power and repeatability are metrics. How often can you go above threshold and recover?

You make a very good point!!

We have this internally and we call it “Fitness Score”. It’s a combo of your FTP + PLs + Weight.

Then you get an arbitrary number that you can see go up/down. It has very fine grain sensitivity and can be used as a metric to know your performance is improving and you’re getting faster!

IE for me, I had a high Fitness Score of 1,226. And before Cape Epic I was around 1,149, or about 6% off of peak fitness.

We need outside PLs first, but I think this could be a pretty cool way to show small fitness increases and motivate people to stay consistent.