I could be mistaken but I vaguely remember Nate talking about or showing a feature that would give a rough FTP estimate or prediction for completing a certain training plan or phase. Did I dream this up or is this indeed something that was at least considered or trialed somewhere?

[image] Feature Request: Workout Progressions TrainerRoad Software No, that is not right. FTP Prediction was mentioned by Nate in the Adaptive Training Introduction episode as something they WANT to do, but it is not available now. It was listed like other “wish list”…

Ah thank you! I spend a good few minutes searching the forum for something like this but never saw that one.

Pretty sure it does exist as an internal TR staff-only feature at the moment based on Nate’s instagram (he put a screenshot of it on his story…). So hopefully coming down the tracks at some point soon, but like you say not around yet.

FTP prediction will still requires max efforts. There’s no free lunch.

Ah I didn’t mean adaptive FTP, I meant a little thing saying something like, Current FTP: 250 if you completed this training phase completely and without issue your FTP will be around 260.

That would be a special brand of magic if they could predict adaptations. Or, maybe it would be more along the lines of the average gain for a certain block of a certain plan.

Yeah so that’s what Nate posted a screenshot of. Unfortunately it was on his story a fair while ago now and I don’t remember precisely what the screen looked like. I should have made a screenshot :smiley: [image] AJS914: That would be a special brand of magic if they could predict adaptations. …

[image] bobmcstuff: Although not sure really the practical use. I think it would be incredibly motivating. “Do this and it’ll gain you x watts” would deffo see me stick with a program longer. The problems are, 1, to be able to give some sort of prediction, and b, what happens if you don’t rea…

Check out Banister’s Impulse-response model. It can model CP changes due to training. Then you can do periodic performance tests and re-fit the model data for closer predictions. If I were to input my planned workouts for the next 12 weeks, the model would predict what the future CP could be. This …

I think it would be motivating if (pretty big if!) it worked out for you. [image] splash: The problems are, 1, to be able to give some sort of prediction, and b, what happens if you don’t reach it Obviously any forecast like that is going to be on a bell curve with pretty wide confidence int…

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