What’s everyone’s opinion on performing regular FTP tests as laid out in the plan vs manually adjusting? I’m halfway through sustained power build and coming up on the midway FTP test. Having done maybe 10 FTP tests in the past 18 months I find that I am rarely surprised by the result and could ha…

I don’t do the middle one in build - although I do both the base Ramp tests. I replace it with a VO2 max session - in the case of Tuesday coming it will be Mills+1 ….joy :flushed:

Well, I think you might notice crickets in response to your question due to fear of backlash from various sources. I don’t do an FTP test very often, because like you, I can pretty much predict the outcome. I’m 49 years old, and have almost 700 TR sessions under my belt over the course of 5.5 year…

That’s what I’m considering. Just look forward to the next week’s workout and find one that’s one step before it in the progression.

Yeah, I think when you have a good understanding how hard workouts should feel, you might be better off adjusting your ftp manually and only test maybe twice a year (like after off season or when you have not been training much - or after a training block to confirm the outcome). I’ve recently also…

I think if you have trained for a long time with TR then you probably can predict your FTP. I wonder if achieving similar results happen because we know what to expect? Like we know what numbers we need to hit, so we make sure we hit them. I’m wondering if, for my next Ramp test, I should strategi…

The card is not a bad idea. You could also try manually bumping up your ftp by 5, 10 or 15 watts etc before the test. Then do the test and see if this had motivated you or not.

I know what you mean about expectations - I will be super motivated in a ramp test to get to 19:30 as I know that is the break even point…every second after that is an improvement - maybe if you didn’t know you were there you might keep going…or maybe give up before - who knows - TBH I find I can’t …

I find the same. I know the breakpoint so I do everything to get there. Then I do everything to get to 20:00 and that seems to be about where I normally fail. So maybe without those cues maybe I would be able to push farther but I doubt it would be more that 10-15 seconds more which would only be…

I’ve only trained with TR for about 15 months, but I always do the prescribed ramp test. I understand the notion that you might be able to predict your FTP, but I find the ramp test to be no hardship, in fact, it’s probably easier than some of the harder workouts. And then “knowing” is something t…

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