# Plan builder help **URL:** \ **Category:** Training\ **Tags:** choosing-a-plan\ **Created:** [May 5, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/plan-builder-help/35366 "2020-05-05T21:46:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gbullington](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/gbullington/32/12890_2.png) [@gbullington](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/gbullington)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/plan-builder-help/35366/1 "2020-05-05T21:46:30Z")
Currently the two fondos I am training for haven’t been cancelled as of yet (mid-Aug and mid-Sept). That said, I’m revising my goals to include improving my times on 3 local climbs. They’re around 30, 45 and 60 minutes. My current plan has me doing: - SS Base Mid Volume II - Sustained Power Build Mid Volume - Century Mid Volume. I’ve just finished SSB Mid Volume and Mid Volume II (but plan builder has me repeating SSB MV II). Would there be a benefit to switching to a 40k TT Specialty plan (or 1 month’s worth of it). Currently aiming for early to mid-July for the climbs. And re: SSB MV II as part of the new plan I just created. Repeat it or go with sustained power build now? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![devolikewhoa83](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/devolikewhoa83/32/7757_2.png) [@devolikewhoa83](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/devolikewhoa83)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/plan-builder-help/35366/2 "2020-05-05T22:24:50Z")
do a five minute test, all out, if you haven’t already done one recently. Then compare that number to your FTP. If your FTP is somewhere around 75 to 80% of that number, sure, go ahead and redo SSB. If yoru FTP is more like 85% of that five minute number, IMHO you’re not gonna get much out of more sweet spot, and you’d want to do workouts that tax (and force to adapt) your Vo2max. ---
**Author:** ![gbullington](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/gbullington/32/12890_2.png) [@gbullington](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/gbullington)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/plan-builder-help/35366/3 "2020-05-06T00:04:53Z")
Ok. Would it make sense to do another ramp test, then the 5m test within a few days and then do the math? My last ramp test was 6 weeks ago and I feel like my FTP came up a bit since then. ---
**Author:** ![devolikewhoa83](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/devolikewhoa83/32/7757_2.png) [@devolikewhoa83](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/devolikewhoa83)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/plan-builder-help/35366/4 "2020-05-06T00:14:36Z")
definitely could do that if you feel like it’d be helpful. A lot of people find that they don’t really need to test FTP, they can rather get a sense of what it is from the benchmark FTP workouts, i.e. whether it feels like the “right” FTP. ---
**Author:** ![Bryce](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/trainerroad/forum/user_avatar/www.trainerroad.com/bryce/32/72_2.png) [@Bryce](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/u/Bryce)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.trainerroad.com/forum/t/plan-builder-help/35366/5 "2020-05-06T20:58:10Z")
> [@gbullington](#): > > I’ve just finished SSB Mid Volume and Mid Volume II (but plan builder has me repeating SSB MV II). Would there be a benefit to switching to a 40k TT Specialty plan (or 1 month’s worth of it). Currently aiming for early to mid-July for the climbs. We don’t recommend doing a Specialty Phase prior to the Build Phase since the plans are designed to be completed in a specific order. The Specialty Phase is more of the final tweaks to your fitness; sharpening the blade so to speak. Base and Build are the foundation of your training. Since you have completed SSB I and II already, I would recommend jumping into the Sustained Power Build now. Being an 8 week plan, you will complete this plan just in time for a July filled with hill climbs 👍.