I have a long term goal to try and pass that line but, after catching a winter bug and being set back a month, I am looking to get re-inspired. I’m curious if for most athletes that break that line it was an “easy” thing or a multi year process of slow but steady progression. As someone who came to…

Really interesting to see what your graphs look like Milnicmy. Really highlights my lack of consistency! I made it to about 285 first year (~3.3w/kg), 310 second year (3.6w/kg) and at my all time high now 317 (3.9w/kg) with this years 5min power pb at 386. I feel like I’m kinda plateauing but have…

Did you just copy my numbers? :smiley: My 5 min is 373 W (two weeks ago) and I did 302 W for 33 min in the spring. But all is not lost, I did also 335 W for close to 15 min recently. I thought my limiter is VO2Max and the recent 5 min PR surprised me actually. I guess you just have to be fresher fo…

This year try to only take about 4-6 weeks of unstructured (but at least consistent) training. Just use the mentality that something is better than nothing and just do some sort of activity on a regular basis. You’ve got some low hanging fruit, and could probably make the jump to ~4.5ish in one seas…

Did TR ever release their data on % of 3 w/kg, 4 w/kg and 5 w/kg? I think my genetic max is probably around 4 w/kg - if that’s all I did.

[image] The Bell curve of cylists - how fast are the average TR users? Training Moar data!!! It seems like people want to see what’s “TR Average” and compare themselves to that. I’ve broken everything down a lot more. While I was doing this I wonder if we’re breaking ne…

Yup… we appear very similar. I’ve also been working on the sustained efforts lately and feel like the VO2 stuff is being neglected. Are you seeing results? If so, what is working? Fortunately, I still have a decent 1400ish watt kick that keeps me in the game. :slight_smile:

My sprint power is non-existent :sweat_smile: Over the summer my training was mostly “Ride a lot, some of it hard”. Lots of tempo hills on vacations in French Alps, otherwise I do VO2Max, SS, OU or threshold sessions on Tu, Thr, Sa, rest of the week is easy, Sunday long. FTP hasn’t moved really but …

Yup. Thats my goal. I’m at 3.2 right now after a year of training…85kg and 270 FTP. Barring winning the lottery and retiring early…I cant really fathom mustering the time required to get to 5. But 4watts/kg I think is doable. 320 ftp, and I think I can get down to 80 kg over the winter. I’ve been …

I think you are working towards walking on tight rope. Just a bit to much and the potential down fall will be worse than being slightly to high BF. i tried working my weight down about 2 years ago and found myself sick more often than not also struggling with the black dog, not a comfortable thing w…

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