Can someone please give me a link to the actual papers cited to support the claim that strength training has no effect on FTP? I’m hearing a lot of authoritative sounding statements but no citations.
According to @empircalcycling, “strength training is only shown in the scientific literature to have power benefits across the board.” Which matches my understanding of the literature as well, but it has also been a few years since I have looked into this.
I will say, having snooped around that older thread, I have no interest in rehashing debates over how to interpret the science interpreters. But I’d love to read the primary lit myself.
I poked around the Ten Minute Tips #30 podcast, there’s a brief mention of a study at 1:08, where the presenter says “20 minute power went up [in the study, due to strength training]. But if the VO2 max is not going up, odds are, your FTP is not going up, unless you are doing a f-load of volume.” Which is based on the presenter’s theory that FTP cannot really increase unless VO2 max increases, not the actual contents of the paper. I’m not sure what “FTP” is supposed to mean here, at least practically, because one of the ways we assess FTP is by… 20 minute power.
It seems that @empircalcycling has a separate opinion (from experience as a coach), referenced by the “n > 100” remark (emphasis added).