I’ve been worried about that as well. But what I can understand, the progression is based on how you manage your workouts, in accordance to your FTP.
I think it will be a lot worse and influence your progression more incorrectly if you just leave your FTP to high (or low) and fail (or overachieve) the workout
Guessing that to set a different FTP for the workout will be the same as having two bikes with different FTP’s setup in the system, which is the feature I was hoping for in the first place
Manually changing your FTP is going to play hell with AT. Every time your FTP changes, your PLs will change (the current experience is this is inverse to how your FTP moves. So FTP down, PLs up; FTP up, PLs down).
At the moment if you want to use AT, you are going to have to pick which FTP you are going to use, and stick with that.
This is my concern, it might not be as bad as I fear but for now I’ve done my ramp test on my TT bike in TT position and will do my workouts like that.
I think adjusting your FTP is going to mess with the progression levels as it thinks you’ve gotten stronger or weaker so will want to slide the progression levels accordingly (in theory if you are a 4.0 for threshold and move FTP up, you’re probably a little less than 4.0 in that category at the new FTP).
I’d guess you could consider doing each workout with the intensity slider (100% +- on bottom left) adjusted to what your perceived “bike” ftp adjustment is and maybe have better success than editing your FTP, but even this may be a problem.
I read in a thread somewhere on the forum that AT doesn’t take adjustments to intensity into account when determining your progression levels so that seems like a better choice to me
Have you thought about splitting the difference. Given that your power meters are likely +/-2% then 5W is probably going to be neither here nor there in terms of training effect.
I can’t speak for the OP but my difference between TT and road FTP is nearer 10% than 10w. Enough to make sweet spot feel like threshold and to make vo2 impossible.
I’m happy enough doing all my training in TT position for now but would be interested to see what trainerroads supported solution would be.
The interesting question is: if you tested FTP via lactate, would you actually have two different FTPs? Or is this more of a positional limitation where your TT position is limiting your ability to produce power / recruit muscle/ breathe?