Extending time at FTP - 1 hour power as % of FTP

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@Captain_Doughnutman

I might be wrong but I do believe Jonathan has said this is one of the more difficult workouts. While other non-TR coaches have said 10min is the minimum Threshold interval they assign.

If we’re thinking about the same thing, I thought that was about Antelope +5 or something similar.

@Cleanneon98

Can’t just assume that someone not finishing a workout at 100% over tested on the ramp though. Perhaps they did, perhaps they bailed early because they had things to do, maybe they are sick, or didn’t sleep well, or have an injury

You’re right that we can’t just assume, but I’m seeing approximately 1 in 3 failures - that’s too high a number to just wave away… you can also click on the user and see their calendar, which a lot of people leave public.

And that’s only accounting for people who over-test - people with low VO2max relative to FTP (ie high fractional utilisation) or low anaerobic work capacity / FRC / W’ / whatever will likely undertest significantly on the ramp test and sail through the intervals without necessarily gaining the full benefits.

And it’s not just the data for clearly simple bread and butter workouts that we have to go on, it’s also the number of threads on here dedicated to such topics, or that indirectly lead to discussion of such topics.

And more importantly, there’s the expert consensus. Ramp tests are a proxy for MAP, which is only very roughly a proxy for FTP. Nobody who knows what they’re doing seriously uses them without a met-cart.