I started doing the workouts in January and my FTP keeps on dropping in spite of training about 12-hour weeks: five workouts on the trainer on weekdays and a long ride on Saturday mornings. Wednesday, Jun 3, 2020 - 250 Monday, Mar 16, 2020 - 256 Monday, Feb 24, 2020 - 262 Monday, Jan 13, 2020 - …

(If you make your TrainerRoad account public we can look at your training calendar and history and see if anything stands out.)

I just made my account public. (Is that public to all on TR or to all-all? :smiley: )

I did all my TrainerRoad tests using the Ramp Test and my set up hasn’t changed in the past six months. I have some 20-minute all out efforts. I rarely do one-hour efforts. I have made my account public if you know how to access it: Looking at my Career Chart, I have done two cycles of base + bu…

My immediate thought is that you’re super consistent where Sweetspot is concerned. The issue might be that you seem to find a workout format that you like within the Sweetspot range, then you repeat that session with an additional interval. You’re increasing duration, which is good, but you’re not r…

(Disclaimer: I don’t actually know what I’m talking about.) I agree with @PusherMan . Couple other things I notice: Like you said, you consistently turn down the intensity on work over threshold. For over-unders in particular, that means you’re not getting the intended training stimulus, assuming …

Just flicked through your career, you appear to be doing all your work under your FTP from May until the past 2 weeks, where you then did some work over FTP but then dialled it back with Mills and Fang Mountain, and then again this week with Mills and Avalanche Spire. Are you modifying the plans to…

The ramp test essentially ends with a 6min+ threshold->vo2max effort. Since you’ve dialed down basically all threshold workouts to sweetspot territory I’m not surprised you’re testing poorly. Whether it’s because you’re not recovered properly, or just not ready to suffer harder efforts I couldn’t sa…

Have you thought about just going back to your own self-made plan?

So a couple things that I noticed looking at your profile were: You turn down the intensity on most rides that goes over FTP. Is there a reason for that? Too fatigued, your FTP doesn’t scale to VO2, etc… I know HR can be funky and individual but on your Ramp test in Jan your max HR was about…

[image] PusherMan: You’re increasing duration, which is good, but you’re not really challenging your system. You’re already very good at Sweetspot. I used the Plan Builder though. But I see your point. [image] PusherMan: I’d really consider adding additional VO2 work to the schedule. S…

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FTP Regression: Any Idea on what I can do/change?

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lxrchtt August 11, 2020, 8:25am 22

Thanks for the suggestion.
I submitted it on the AACCP sub-forum:

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