I did a ramp test today (my second recent ramp test after many years off the bike). I gave it my all and it left me feeling shattered (but with a significant 16% FTP bump, from poor to slightly less poor). I had to lightly spin for another 10 minutes after the test to get my composure back and it le…

If you wanted to test a cars top speed would you not change into top gear?

16% bump? Must have gone pretty long, then… 22 or 23 minutes before failure? Ouch. Ramp test hurts, but I’ve never been so crushed afterwards that I couldn’t at least do an endurance 30 minutes, and sometime much more. You didn’t stand at all for it, did you? No way is the 60 minutes version a good…

If you don’t feel THIS close to dying at the end of the test, you didn’t push hard enough. So yeah, this is very normal.

Yep, made it just to 23 minutes. No standing. I was so crushed that I couldn’t get off the bike for 10 minutes, so definitely no post ramp workouts for me. I don’t know if I’ll even be able to manage much of a workout tomorrow! I was thinking a 60 minute test might work better for me, it’s more end…

Your ramp test went long / you should have tested sooner. You’ll probably find your % gains go down pretty soon, so the test gets a bit shorter. 21 or 22 minutes is amazing progress if you’re testing 4~6wks. I’d give it a few more cycles before trying a different ftp test. Also consider if you’re co…

I would argue that you’re actually better off going until the first “misfire”. If you don’t care about getting the highest possible result every time, you can actually get more consistent results by just going hard enough that you fail at a consistent RPE. It takes so much out of you mentally to d…

[image] gcarver: I don’t even see a 60 minute test in the TR catalog. There is one, although not an official test: [image] The FTP Challenge Training You knuckleheads could always do this TR workout…designed just for such absurdity: Hour Record.

Increasing FTP before testing is a really good idea! Before the test I was running workouts at +10%… if I would have bumped by FTP before the test it might not have hurt so much.

Yeah, the test was about 5 weeks since I started back on TR. It’s newbie gains by virtue of having a low FTP and not being on the bike for so long (but keeping some fitness). You are right 60 minutes max effort isn’t “endurance”, maybe the term I am looking for is more aerobic? Longer hard efforts …

Well, you won’t get your hr as high on 60 min threshold, as from a good excecuted ramp test, so maybe. But the muscle soreness is real af. I did a 20 min ftp test yesterday with a 5 min all out effort (anaerobic clearance) first @ 126% ftp and man, i really felt the same pain as you describe. I coul…

Ramp testing leaves me in shambles!

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Captain_Doughnutman May 20, 2020, 6:30am 8

There is one, although not an official test:

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Ramp testing leaves me in shambles!

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