I’m starting Sustained Power Build LV tomorrow after a ramp test that gave me some 7% increase in FTP. I’m dreading what’s coming my way just by looking at the next workout (Mount Goode). Any tips to survive this? I’m thinking of the back pedaling thing, but haven’t really used it during this kind…

[image] sam.fuller1: As for my 3x15 yesterday, it felt spot on. Raising it 5-10w would definitely have had me over threshold. So, 330 seems about right for these sessions. Yeah the work during that session looks just about perfect. If I was doing that workout and had perfect information I’d …

[image] Brennus: If I was doing that workout and had perfect information I’d try to do it just a skosh (~1%?) over what I could hold for an hour. I purposefully wanted to do it a little under threshold – a lot of guys on the SS Prog thread do their threshold work @ 97% like Kolie Moore recomm…

[image] sam.fuller1: That might have been your FTP, but you don’t have a very long TTE. I agree that I could always have a better TTE! But it has been a point of focus for a while. [image]

If they are too hard then you or TR have overestimated your FTP even if you did a ramp test. They should be uncomfortable for sure, but repeatable.

Somebody help me out here - where does the notion that you can tell whether you’re above or below your FTP just based on cardiac drift come from?

I see lots of people mention it, is all.

Sorry this last exchange has made me laugh. I do think you have a lot to bring to the discussion OBNDY, but sometimes you really do define the expression “could start an argument in an empty room”…

Well I didn’t really want to point fingers because it wasn’t necessarily really his point, but my question was spurred by @Brennus ’s graph. IOW, the room isn’t empty, it’s just that the paintings on the wall reminded me of something else.

[image] Bbt67: do you think if your FTP is set correctly you would need “survival tips” as in the thread title. Not on a regular basis, no. OTOH, I can see 3 x 15 minutes at 100% of FTP being a bit of struggle occasionally, just due to normal ups-and-downs in performance.

yes, i was responding to martin’s response to nate’s example, particularly this part: [image] martinheadon: However at threshold, I would always prefer to do more work and longer intervals at lower power than less work and shorter intervals at higher power. E.g. do 3x12min but all at 95-98%, ra…

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