Hello everyone! The addition of TR’s Ai training and subsequent FTP “calibration” has seemed to draw a lot of conversation from the community, positive and negative. FTP has been the metric we use to quantify our performance for a long time, but I believe we are entering a new era where this single…

Why try to reinvent the wheel? The pdc has existed for ages and does an excellent job at showing one’s strengths/weakness.

I bet someone said this when FTP and PDC were first being introduced. “We have heart rate and RPE, to hell with power and lactate!” Hahaha PDC is an excellent tool, but it is practical and does not take into account repeatability. “Durability” has become a buzz word and I think it boils down repeat…

I don’t understand what you are asking then? How are you wanting this visualized? The pdc can already be used to show power after 4,000kj or any number you want.

This is exactly what I was thinking! How did you make this? So cool!

I had been thinking about it, and this is what I had in mind to start: A 3-D View of a Chart That Predicts The Economic Future: The Yield Curve - The New York Times I worked with claude code to build it one in the past few minutes. I’ll put it up online so you can drop in a GPX file. I added option…

My answer to your overall question is that if we learned to analyze these curves directly, we would understand that the AI’s FTP is generated by fitting a theoretical smooth shape on top of your personal curve here. As your progression levels increase, you’re flattening out the repeatability axis, a…

[image] Gbeeston: What are your thoughts on benchmark performance metrics? And how can they benefit your training? I’m thinking; Swim 1500m time Bike 40k TT Run 10k TT Edit: oh, and relative fat mass. They’re just a guide for progress, ie is my training working, are my race plans viab…

I feel this too re the “FTP” value on tr. being a much lower number than the former AIftp. I struggle to contextualise what my performance is truly like in the really world as it’s often based on more nebulous things like repeatability and time to fatigue. seeing the number decrease or stagnate desp…

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andyreagan March 12, 2026, 1:54am 6

Oh wow I literally just made this graph in another thread: Scrap FTP and show us a Predicted Power Profile - #21 by andyreagan

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