What motivational videos do you guys watch for a ramp test? On my last test I watched a you tube clip of Lance attacking on Sestriere in the ‘99 tdf. There is a This Will Destroy You song playing over the commentary. Very inspirational despite the EPO. I started it 11 minutes into the test which worked well.
Anyone know of any similar clips of great attacks etc?
I am bringing this post back to live. It has been some time and maybe now people have better videos to watch while doing the Ramp Test?
I like to put my own music but i really like watching some awesome bike races at the same time. Anybody have some good videos?
On my last Ramp Test, I used this video from @Nate_Pearson racing. This is a great race in which he lauches a bridge to the leading pack, then sits on their wheel for a bit and finally proceeds to beat them on a sprint to the finish.
If you start the video around the 34:00 mark, you have just started a big bridge effort to reach out to the leading pack and will reach them about when the test starts to get hard. You will be on a 1 on 1 race to the finish right at 19:30 into the test (matching your FTP) and will win the race around 20 minutes or so which should give you a pretty good increase on your FTP. Of course you can adjust the start time to make sure it ends on the line where you think you will end your test.