I usually think that Nate is on top of things and makes really good decisions. But I can’t help but think that if the Legacy pricing increase conversation would have started today, after this amazing break through product announcement, it would have gone a little different.
Amazing job, my FTP detection was right where I thought it’d be. I tried doing the ramp test afterward to confirm, but I gave up early when I saw that I was going to end up right at my detected FTP.
Congrats and great work!
Now, when are we going to have a prediction for FTP 6 months into the future
First of all, great work and thank you to all involved in getting the AI FTP feature live, and second for dealing with all of the questions and comments here!!
Quick question - if I choose not to accept the suggested FTP from AI but instead amend my FTP manually, what will happen? I appreciate that my PL’s will drop but wanted to double check that adaptive training will just take some time to adjust - thanks!
You are good to go with this approach! Adaptive Training won’t handle manual FTP increases any differently from those prompted by a test or by AI FTP Detection. Your Progression Levels will adjust proportionately to your FTP increase, and your upcoming workouts will continue to adapt as intended!
I don’t know if this answers your question or not. When I ran the predictor last night I accepted the predicted FTP increase but it didn’t go through to my app so I entered it manually. As you say it lowered the PL and AT subsequently adapted most of my planned wo’s, except for the one in my calendar last night, which it now labelled a ‘stretch’.
I did a ramp test last week and pulled the pin before it really started to hurt. That’s been my go to method for awhile now and it seems to give me a reasonable estimate to set WO’s.
When I tested the estimator yesterday it had me within a couple of points of that ramp result.
It’s hard to say exactly how big a drop I got. The last time I pushed to failure in a ramp test I got silly numbers(>10% at best guess).
I’m heading into ShortPB ATM. It’ll be interesting to try out the estimator vs the ramp in a few weeks.
The good news is that if you push your TR rides to Strava, you now have a visual that shows you where your levels were. Then you can manually pick workouts t similar progression levels, and you should be right back on track.
Yeah, adding a Ramp Test to your Calendar every 3 or 4 weeks would be a good approach, or add one when you feel like your fitness as turned a corner. If you’re on a plan, obviously you’ll have days scheduled in with Ramp Tests / AI FTP Detection. But if you’re not following a plan, the feature will work with a manually added Ramp Test the same way it worked for you today. You could add these weeks/months out as reminders.
@SaSha1103 is correct. When the Ramp Test is your next workout, if you go to Career Page, you’ll see the Ramp Test with two buttons: Load Ramp Test and Use FTP Detection
So you’ll need to wait until March 7th or 8th to see this, and it will only be visible in the apps (not on the website).
Is anyone else receiving the “FTP Detection Not Available” after adding the Ramp Test to their calendar, even after deleting their most recent FTP result in their account history?
Just dropping in to say THANK YOU to the whole TR team who worked on this. I did my first workout after the FTP increase proposed by AI (incl the adapted calandar proposed by the AT) and the effort felt perfect. Knowing that I won’t have to test anymore, trust the system and get faster just boost my motivation.
Using the “workaround” of deleting your most recent FTP update in FTP History doesn’t give you as good a prediction as the feature would if you were to wait 14 days after that update. I’d suggest looking again in a couple of weeks.