New to structured training, question on FTP increases and recovery week

[Juarez]

Getting Started with Indoor Training, Beginner Info

I keep sharing the same info (below) so we’ve moved it to a separate thread to make it easy to share. (This is simply to reduce my repeated huge posts inside other threads.) There have been a bunch of new riders posting different questions about getting started with FTP, what to do about the overall difficulty of workouts and plans, and generally how to advance through training. This is something I think about a lot and I’m trying to capture and share some of the novice knowledge to help othe…