Hey, I have been contemplating the relationship between height, weight and power since the last two episodes of the podcast have come out. I am 6,3, roughly 80-81kg and training at an ftp of 293. That puts me in the ball park of a 3.6 ish watt per kg. To reach a 4 w/kg I am looking at 320’s and to…

Whoa - thread revival after a long time!! Tieing back to the original content of this thread, the concept was more about physical limiters. Yes, W/kg etc. isn’t everything and certain races still allow you to have a chance. However, the issue I raised back near the start of this thread is that la…

I’m not sure how you figure it’s harder for a bigger rider to hit 5W/kg than a smaller one. Larger riders have more muscle to produce more power, sure nothing scales linearly and we’re talking about humans who can be very different however you can also look at your body and it’s physical traits and …

[image] cerb: Again, not trying to dimisnish anyone, but LOTS of people can push 340W FTP, irrespective of size/weight. This equates to: Not sure how you came to this conclusion - If you had an FTP of 340 and weighed 58kg you wouldn’t be far off from world tour level - and you are saying lots…

OT, Ganna the other day only pushed 340w at circa 85kg (IIRC); he did do it for 4 &1/2 hours though :hushed:

[image] cerb: Again, not trying to dimisnish anyone, but LOTS of people can push 340W FTP, irrespective of size/weight. What on earth gives you this insane idea

[image] The Bell curve of cylists - how fast are the average TR users? Training More fun data! This time I pulled raw FTP data for men and women. Interesting facts: The top of the bell curve for Men is between 230-240 watts. Men “mess up” the bell curve at 200 and 300 …

Reviewing the linked data sets again, it seems my perspective on this is probably a bit detatched from the ‘norm’ and is probably getting a bit specialist (hence my problem in racing). Would be interesting if @Nate_Pearson had data which showed people’s W/kg vs. weight and/or W/kg vs. Raw Power so …

There was also a breakdown of ftp/kg for different age groups of men and women in the same thread earlier on but can’t find any that groups weights which would be interesting. [image] [image]

Yes, I saw that one. FTP/kg is just W/kg as a % of their user base though. I’d be interested to see Raw Watts vs Kg (i.e. weight on x axis, FTP wattage on y-axis). The purpose being to see if smaller riders can still put out high FTPs and if the larger riders can actually put out much more… (and …

Yes, it would be really interesting to see what that graph would look like. I guess the only person who could construct that graph with TR data would be the CEO. That data is probably worth money somewhere? So I don’t expect to see it, you could always ask Nate :wink:

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Not for lots of TR users as link shows…

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