Who cares about FTP anymore?

TrainerRoad Software
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Re-read our comments. There are multiple algorithms and moving pieces that work together.

  • TR AI is the algorithm that scores your rides, workouts you have done and workouts you could potentially do. The latter is the basis for picking the right workouts, it tries to find the optimal blend of workouts that balance fatigue and progressive overload. This set of algorithms knows nothing about your FTP.
  • To pick the right workouts, TR AI taps into TR sizable workout library. All workouts in the library are relative to your FTP. But TR AI doesn’t know about FTP, so it simply doesn’t know what to do with 120 % FTP.
  • AI FTP is the mediator between the two: it converts 120 % FTP to a raw power number (say, 360 W). Once the FTP has been plugged in, you obtain a workout in Watts. This is something that TR AI can understand and score.

Better?

24

Yep thanks as you can see I responded to several people thanking them for the explanation and flagged a comment as a “solution.”

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I’m glad you figured it out, because I read this thread and am more confused than I was when I started!!