We’ve never said that AI FTP Detection is an estimation or that it isn’t FTP.
FTP stands for Functional Threshold Power.
It was created to have a functional training benchmark you could use to give yourself the right intensity and duration for your training.
Somewhere along the line the protocols and approximations for FTP became the (many) definitions. Some definitions work well for one person while they don’t work well for others, and in many cases athletes are held back by this.
AI FTP Detection uses models that analyze your performance to figure out what the best training benchmark would be to give you the workouts you need right now to get faster.
In the majority of cases the value from AI FTP Detection aligns closely with what our athletes already had. In some cases it is higher lor lower, and in very rare cases, it is significantly higher or lower.
But in every case, TrainerRoad AI adjusts your training so you get appropriately difficult workouts that give you the improvement you need.
Even if athletes decide to manually set their own FTP, TrainerRoad AI will still do it’s best to give you the right workouts, but it might run into limitations and not be able to get you out of a hole or past a plateau.
The best outcomes are seen when athletes use the value from AI FTP Detection.